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Diversity has always been a defining characteristic of human societies. Historically, ‘Man’ has been inclined towards ‘difference’, be it racial, ethnic, or religious. This has resulted in a constant enriching cultural move (Harari, 2011; Graeber and Wengrow, 2021). In today’s world, diversity has become endemic in human life. Theoreticians like Derrida, Habermas, Geertz and others have broadened this concern to include political, economic, and social dimensions. 

In the context of non-Western geographies, histories, and cultures, theorists related to or working within Postcolonial thought have troubled the penchant for social, intellectual, and cultural Eurocentric uniformity. Victor Segalen’s aesthetics of diversity, Homi Bhabha’s third space, Édouard Glissant’s poetics of relation and creolisation, and Bhikhu Parekh’s multiculturalism have laid the groundwork for non-hegemonic and non-assimilationist inscriptions of diversity and difference in contemporary thought and culture. These theorists and critics, among others, have brought human diversity to centre stage and chanted a choir of praise for cultural diversity in a world where hegemonic cultural economics exerts coercion to maintain the status quo.