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Indian Knowledge Systems and Constructional Values

Author(s) Prof. A Rajashree Amirtha Muthu P, Prof. S Ramya Shanmuganathan M
Country India
Abstract This thesis examines the relationship between Indian Knowledge Systems (IKS) and the constitutional values of justice, liberty, equality, fraternity, dignity, secularism, democracy, and respect for diversity. It argues that IKS should neither be treated as a single, homogeneous civilisational inheritance nor employed as a substitute for constitutional adjudication. Rather, it should be approached as a plural archive of intellectual, ethical, linguistic, scientific, artistic, legal, ecological, and social traditions that can be critically engaged through the normative discipline of the Constitution.
The study adopts doctrinal, historical, and normative methods. It reads the Preamble, Fundamental Rights, Directive Principles of State Policy, Fundamental Duties, and selected Supreme Court decisions alongside strands of Indian thought such as Buddhist compassion, Jain plural reasoning, Bhakti and Sufi egalitarian idioms, Gandhian ethics, Ambedkarite critique, and traditions of local ecological knowledge. The thesis contends that constitutional values supply the test of inclusion: a tradition may inform education, policy, and public reasoning only when its contemporary use is compatible with equal citizenship, individual dignity, freedom of conscience, scientific temper, and non-discrimination.
The central conclusion is that a constitutionally faithful engagement with IKS requires plurality, source criticism, transparency, and safeguards against caste, gender, religious, and regional exclusion. It recommends a rights-based curricular framework, interdisciplinary research standards, community participation, and judicial caution against romanticising the past. In this form, IKS can enrich constitutional culture without displacing the supremacy of the Constitution.
Keywords Indian Knowledge Systems; constitutional values; constitutional morality; plurality; dignity; secularism; education; social justice.
Published In Volume 7, Issue 5, September-October 2026
Published On 2026-10-24
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