Production of Knowledge in India; Where Do We Lack

By: SKS

Acquirement, perseverance, generation and dissemination of knowledge has always been one of the cherished goals of humankind. Sometimes this inquisitiveness may well be wholly or partially related only to the access to information which in turn may attain the form of knowledge. Therefore, the history of civilizations is replete with examples of the efforts of human being in quest for knowledge. Indian society had taken a substantive lead in furtherance of this quest for knowing more about different and diverse aspects of human life. In this process, the evolution of the discourse on gaining greater understanding and knowledge of spiritual, transcendental, metaphysical, natural and mundane spheres received increased attention and interest. The social, cultural, religious and administrative establishments and individuals perpetuated their singular and sometimes coordinated efforts in this direction. The ultimate aim, however, has admittedly been the greater pleasure, peace and progress of the society and that too in a universal and uniform manner.
The external invasions often provided for intervals and discontinuity in the thought process which has been termed as ‘blanketing of tradition’. But this urge for knowing materialized the tremendous transformation in life styles of people because the implications of knowing have essentially been manifested in the creation, renovation, enhancement and upgradation. The concomitant advancements in technology and resultant urbanization and modernization required economic upheavals and unfortunately the periods of long dominance promoted perennial destruction of established sources of resource mobilization. This resulted in financial sluggishness and considerable loss in the pace of development and the sad corollary was an easy acceptance of academic predominance of ‘others’ and an expansion of the sense of inability to generate any kind of knowledge. This trend facilitated an unwarranted spread of inferiority complex amongst those sections of the society which have since long been primarily responsible for the works of acquiring, preserving, generating and disseminating knowledge. The socio-cultural changes brought out largely by the constitutional pronouncement and democratic development also produced ‘iso-types’ only as the responsibility has been
understood to be limited to the dissemination of knowledge acquired, preserved and generated by ‘others’.
All this has led to significant decrease in the production of quality indigenous literature on every kind of discipline and branch of knowledge which can be witnessed immensely in the academic institutions and research establishment most of whom can proudly boast of production of quality work based on the findings, methodology, conceptual framework and ideological understanding of the ‘others’. The indigenous generation of knowledge is largely hampered by the pan-India preponderance and understood superiority of English language thereby adversely affecting the knowledge-generation capability of ‘vernacular’ languages. The scenario in social science discipline in India in general and Political Science in particularly is a testimony to these facts. We as students and fellow learners of the discipline must put our heads together in ascertaining the causes, effects and prospects of these phenomenon because only the pursuit of knowledge can open the roads leading to the ultimate truth which is prescribed as follows:

(Sanjeev K. Sharma)

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