pedagogical approaches to integrating indian knowledge system in legal education

Publication Type: Edited Book

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Authors: Dr. Kasturi Bhagat
Keywords: Indian Knowledge System, Legal Education, Jurisprudence, Dharma, Nyaya, Arthashastra, Legal Pedagogy
Area/Stream: Social Sciences / Social Work / Others
Published in: IIP Series
Volume: 4, Month:July ,Year:2025
Page No.: 145-155
e-ISBN: 978-93-7020-704-2
DOI/Link: https://www.doi.org/10.58532/nbennurBJIKSW12

Abstract:

An indigenous jurisprudence and contemporary legal paradigms based critical pedagogical framework is required for integration of the Indian knowledge system into legal education. India‘s legal traditions of Manusmriti, Arthashastra, Dharmashastra and principles of jurisprudence from the Nyaya and Mimamsa schools continue to remain out of the mainstream legal education model prevalent in India, which is Eurocentric. This paper critically analyzes pedagogical approaches for the systematically quantified use of Indian Knowledge System (IKS) into legal curricula which are academic rigorous and constitutional. The afore mentioned drawing on constructivist and experimental methodologies as well as interdisciplinary methodologies. This research attempts to understand how legal education can work with IKS through a Case Based learning, narrative jurisprudence and comparative legal analysis. In addition, it explores how digital tools, research programs, and community-based learning can help close the epistemic gap between indigenous legal traditions and contemporary legal frameworks and in doing so it will prove that the hybridity of the indigenous legal thought has emerged even with only fragmented remote web-based interactions. The research addresses potential challenges, language barriers, institutional resistance and tensions between modern constitutionalism and customary legal regime. This research argues that it is necessitated to take a nuanced, critically oriented approach to prevent the romanticizing of IKS while at the same time acknowledging its valuable jurisprudential contribution. This research argues that while advocating for IKS integration in the context of a decolonized, relevant to the context legal pedagogy, it is not an act of cultural revivalism, but part of the endeavor towards Epistemic Pluralism in legal education.

Cite this: Dr. Kasturi Bhagat,"PEDAGOGICAL APPROACHES TO INTEGRATING INDIAN KNOWLEDGE SYSTEM IN LEGAL EDUCATION", ,IIP Series, Volume 4, July , 2025, Page no.145-155, e-ISBN: 978-93-7020-704-2, DOI/Link: https://www.doi.org/10.58532/nbennurBJIKSW12

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