Political education (PE) in India is imparted through a liberal democratic lens at the school level. However, the view that the Constitution of India is built on the foundations of liberalism solely requires further scrutiny. In the politi-cal discourse, a liberal interpretation of the constitution battles against other interpretations of constitutional provisions, particularly the bill of rights. This is because of reading the constitution as a ‘fixed’ text rather than a self-reflexive or living document that encounters the messy paradoxes of a postco-lonial society and is in itself a site of political contestation. Moreover the crisis of liberalism in political discourse exposes a lack of common vocabulary and shared meanings of basic concepts like secularism and equality