New Education Policy- NEP 2019 of India -Intellectual Slavery or Cultural Hegemony

Abstract

This paper discusses the proposal, implementations and repercussions of the New Education Policy – NEP 2019 of India. There are many areas where we observe a very clear influence of the intellectual slavery or may be the cultural hegemony on the blue print of the NEP. The question of defining ‘knowledge’ and the ‘knowledge system’ also is very important to understand the correlation between Intellectual Slavery and the provisions of the NEP. Education Policy is a framework to educate students and enhance the potential of higher learning. In any policy, knowledge generation is its primary thrust. The Education Policy should either establish or create knowledge potential i.e. the “Act of Knowledge” is the core of Education Policy. However, the question always comes: How to define the act of knowledge. It is an academic exercise. It is said that an academic institution and all its stakeholders are very well placed by performing their pseudo duties and responsibilities. But it does not create the act of knowledge. It is a good confession on the part of the policymakers that there is a crisis in knowledge creation.