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Indian Knowledge Systems in English Literature: Representation of Tradition and Wisdom

Author(s) Ravi Kant Tiwari
Country India
Abstract Indian Knowledge Systems (IKS) encompass the philosophical, ethical, ecological, linguistic, artistic and community-based practices which evolved throughout Indian civilisation. IKS is found in English literature, and in English Indian writing in particular, as well as in some colonial depictions of India, as the cultural background and as a system of interpretation of life, duty, memory, identity and spiritual experience. The paper explores the portrayal of Indian tradition and wisdom in some of the English literary works such as Kanthapura and The Serpent and the Rope by Raja Rao, The Guide by R. K. Narayan, A Passage to India by E. M. Forster, Midnight Children by Salman Rushdie and The Great Indian Novel by Shashi Tharoor. The paper presents the argument that English literature could be viewed as a bridge by which the Indian wisdom is maintained, translated and reinterpreted to appeal to the contemporary readers with the help of qualitative textual analysis. It reveals that oral narration, dharma, karma, Vedanta, myth, epic memory, communal ethics and cultural translation are key to this presentation, whereas everyday social and cultural life renders these concepts significant in their local practice and everyday life. Simultaneously, the tensions between the tradition and colonial modernity, elite and folk knowledge, spirituality and politics, continuity and change are also disclosed in the texts. IKS in English literature can thus be seen as a living, nimble and critical source of knowledge as opposed to an unchanging heritage of the past.
Keywords Indian Knowledge Systems, English literature, tradition, wisdom, Indian writing in English, mythology, spirituality, cultural memory
Field Engineering
Published In Volume 17, Issue 2, April-June 2026
Published On 2026-06-29
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