Integration of Indian Knowledge System in Higher Education Curricula under NEP 2020: Opportunities, Challenges, and Global Relevance

Ashish Jyotishi

doi:10.63363/aijfr.2025.v06i06.2335

Integration of Indian Knowledge System in Higher Education Curricula under NEP 2020: Opportunities, Challenges, and Global Relevance

Author(s)	Dr. Ashish Jyotishi
Country	India
Abstract	The National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 represents a landmark in India’s educational transformation, offering a comprehensive vision that seeks to align higher education with the principles of multidisciplinarity, value-based learning, and rootedness in indigenous traditions. Among its most innovative dimensions is the formal recognition and curricular integration of the Indian Knowledge System (IKS), encompassing disciplines such as Ayurveda, Yoga, Vedic mathematics, classical philosophy, literature, and traditional sciences. This initiative underscores the importance of re-establishing India’s civilizational heritage as a meaningful contributor to global intellectual discourse while simultaneously addressing national educational aspirations. This paper critically examines the opportunities, challenges, and global relevance of embedding IKS into higher education curricula under the NEP 2020 framework. It highlights the multiple opportunities created by IKS integration, such as preserving cultural identity, promoting holistic learning, fostering sustainability, encouraging interdisciplinary research, and strengthening India’s role as an international education hub. At the same time, it acknowledges the institutional and practical hurdles, including the lack of standardized curricula, limited faculty expertise, insufficient empirical validation of traditional practices, funding constraints, and questions of global recognition. The analysis also situates India’s efforts within a comparative international context, drawing parallels with the integration of indigenous knowledge systems in countries like New Zealand, Canada, and Australia. These comparative insights reveal both the potential and complexities of embedding traditional knowledge in modern education systems. Ultimately, the study emphasizes that the success of NEP 2020’s vision depends on the creation of robust frameworks that combine policy support, academic innovation, and global collaboration. By doing so, India can not only preserve its intellectual traditions but also project them as globally relevant resources for sustainable development, ethical governance, and intercultural academic exchange
Keywords	National Education Policy 2020, Indian Knowledge System, Higher Education, Curriculum, Global Relevance, Indigenous Pedagogy.
Published In	Volume 6, Issue 6, November-December 2025
Published On	2025-12-09
DOI	https://doi.org/10.63363/aijfr.2025.v06i06.2335
Short DOI	https://doi.org/hbf95k

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