Indian Knowledge System
Knowledge vs Knowledge Systems in Indian Knowledge Systems
This talk is the result of a pursuit of the epistemology and ontology of Academic Knowledge that we have been engaged with over the last four decades. Indian Knowledge Systems (IKS) was proposed in India in the National Education Policy 2020.
Why, then, is Ayurveda, the sciences of health, illness, and healing that originated in the Indian Subcontinent, dismissed as pseudoscience?
What is or what should be IKS?
In this talk, I will explain my idea of what should be "Indian Knowledge Systems" (IKS).
Indian Knowledge Systems: An overview
Professor Mahadevan’s research interests include researching the possibility of using ancient Indian wisdom to address contemporary concerns, spirituality in the work place, and management paradigms from Bhagavad Gita. In the traditional areas of management, the research interests include design of service systems in customer co-creation of value and order allocation issues in electronic markets. This talk will provide an overview of Indian Knowledge systems. The talk will discuss the epistemology and ontology of IKS and bring out the contemporary applications of IKS.