Where India’s Knowledge Traditions Find a Home in the Classroom
The Manav Rachna School of Education & Humanities is proud to announce the opening of the Indian Knowledge Systems (IKS) Centre at Manav Rachna University, headed by Dr Mira Mishra, Assistant Professor and Coordinator of the Centre.
The Centre has been established in keeping with the vision of the National Education Policy (#NEP) 2020, which calls for integrating India’s diverse intellectual, philosophical and cultural traditions into higher education. It will serve as a dedicated space for awareness, academic engagement, research and interdisciplinary exploration of Bharatiya Gyan Parampara among students and faculty.
Why the Centre matters
India’s knowledge traditions span language, philosophy, science, art, education and ethics. For students, especially future educators and humanities scholars, engaging with these traditions builds cultural rootedness alongside critical thinking. By bringing this heritage into teaching, learning and research, the Centre aims to create an academic environment where tradition informs innovation rather than standing apart from it.
From establishing the Centre to enriching its practice
Soon after the Centre’s opening, Dr Mira Mishra participated in the Master Class on Tantrayukti: A Two-Day Workshop on IKS-based Thesis Construction, organised by INDICA in collaboration with Central Sanskrit University. The workshop explored #Tantrayukti as an Indic research methodology, a systematic framework for organising knowledge, building logical arguments and structuring scholarly inquiry.
The two events are closely connected. The Centre provides the institutional foundation, and the workshop brings the methodological depth. Insights from Tantrayukti can shape how the Centre guides students and faculty in research design, thesis writing and scholarly argumentation grounded in Indian intellectual traditions.
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