CONTENTS: Foreword, Editors' Bionotes, Foreword Professors' Bionote, Editorial, Acknowledgements, SECTION-I: THEORETICAL FRAMEWORKS AND CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES: 1. On the Indianness of Being: Lessons from Language and Linguistics-Renuka Ozarkar and Avinash Pandey, 2. Indian Knowledge Systems: The Phule-Ambedkarian Perspective-Sachin Garud, 3. Indian Knowledge System as a site of Ontological Contestation: Gender, Sexuality and the Politics of Knowledge-Kajol Boraste and Harshul Singh, 4. Transmission and Transformation: Caste in Indian Knowledge Systems-Pravat Sethi, 5. Translating Bhakti: Rethinking the Bhakti Movement as a Movement of Translation-Nitya Pawar, SECTION-II: PHILOSOPHICAL AND SPIRITUAL TRADITIONS: 6. Vedantic Perspectives on Personality-Anuradha Bakshi, 7. Understanding Buddhist Culture-Zubin Mulla, 8. Comparative Insights: Exploring Vedanta and Tribal Beliefs in India-Rajendra Kumar Dabee, 9. Bhakti as a Pedagogical Movemnt-Sanjay Ranade and Sneha Subhedar, 10. Philosophical Foundations and Psychological Innovations of Mindfulness-Aishe Debnath and Satishchandra Kumar, 11. Santosh (Contentment): A Key Construct for Health, Wellbeing and Happiness of Humankind-Jitendra K Singh, SECTION-III: ARTS, AESTHETICS AND CULTURAL EXPRESSION: 12. The Natyasastra as a Tool for Emotional Literacy-Aanand Chabukswar, 13. Reading Cinema of India through Lila-Biraj Mehta Rathi, 14. Aesthetics and Material Cultures-Kaiwan Mehta, 15. Museumization of Indian Knowledge Systems-Ajay Salunkhe, SECTION-IV: APPLIED KNOWLEDGE: HEALTH, ECOLOGY AND MATERIAL CULTURE: 16. Through Integrated and Disintegrated Epistemologies-Tina Chakravarty, 17. Food Cuisines and Health-Anuradha Mitra and Vibba Hasija, 18. Traditional Textiles of India-Pratima Goyal, 19. Achieving Global Green Growth through India's Ancient Wisdom-Jubi Deshmukh and Srishti Sharma, SECTION-V: PEDAGOGY, POLITICS AND INSTITUTIONAL CHALLENGES: 20. Indian Knowledge Systems (IKS) in the Higher Education Curriculum-Namrata Ganneri, 21. Indian Knowledge System: Prospects and Challenges for inclusive Education-Mythili Ramchand, 22. Right to Freedom of Religion-Virendra Kumar, 23. Ancient Indian Knowledge on Interstate Relations during Peacetime-Rashmi Salpekar, 24. Indian Army: Its Culture and Making of the Nation State-Probal Dasgupta and Manish Naik, 25. Mothers and Motherhood in Pre-Modern India-Sucharita Sarkar, Contributor's Bionote.