01285pab a2200157 454500008004000000100001600040245010400056260000900160300001400169362001200183520084700195650002101042650001201063650001401075773003801089180718b2002   xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aNag, Dulali  aA post-colonial end to history? A reflection on the relation between democracy and communitarianism  c2002  ap.525-49.  aSep-Dec  aCan democratic rights be claimed for cultural communities without subverting the first principle of democracy?  What theoretical assumptions have to be made - implicitly if not explicitly - to posit the sociological existence of a cultural collective as the first step towards mounting a political movement critical of a liberal system of governance founded upon the idea of citizenship?  This article tries to address these questions through a textual analysis of two essays arguing for the political rights of `cultural communities' as a means towards enhancing a democratic political culture.  It concludes with the argument that the theoretical process which goes into the construction of a communitarian collective inexorably leads to a position where `identity' and `history' are conflated to disable democratic movements. - Reproduced.  aCommunitarianism  aHistory  aDemocracy  aContributions to Indian Sociology