Western supremacy over Indian system of knowledge

Our indigenous systems of education, medicine and law have been considered supreme over a period of time when we deal with the epistemological renaissance of the Indian Civilization compared to the recently evolved notions of the Western epistemology.

- Mangalaprathaban Muralidharan

India has become a colonial baby born to the East and the West with irresistible temptation to actualize the western notions of life rather than the eastern ethics of life and love. The cradle of Indian democracy is known for its impeccable assertion of the absolute transparency and immeasurable invocation of integrity beyond all types of cultural and social biases. However, the concept of secularity in Indian politics is going to be beacon light but not the replication of the age-old profiteering through imbalances and biases in favour of the one stratum over the other.

Nothing remains the same with or without colonization, which has demarcated the past with the present through suppression and oppression of our indigenous systems of education, medicine and law. The neo-imperialist narratives have started to narrate progress over the past with considerable usurpation of the traditional occupations and knowledge systems as archaic and irrelevant by promoting the profit over people by hook or crook. Our academics are mired in crystallization of the Western supremacy over our indigenous systems of knowledge proven but not being popular because of nepotism or exclusivity of inheritance and heritage.

Popular constructs of the West are still deemed to be quite relevant without much of any scrutiny by the Indian media and intelligentsia. The quest for change from this position has already started but invisibly immaculate enough to redesign the norms of corporate consumerism to a large extent. Fetishism of the West is sometimes celebrated with mindless populism even amidst the rationalists and independent media critics. This scenario polarizes the neutral space prevalent in our cultural and social episteme throughout the micro and macro-spheres of knowledge gathering and dissemination.