Siddhiba Gohil

For decades, the study of English literature in the post-colonial world has been viewed through what Dr. Dushyant Nimawat aptly calls a "static singular lens." We have dutifully applied Western frameworks—structuralism, psychoanalysis, postmodernism—to texts that often resist such categorization. This raises a pressing question for the modern scholar: Can "English Studies" truly claim to be a global discipline if it continues to marginalize the sophisticated knowledge systems of the East? The recent National Seminar on Indian Knowledge Systems (IKS) and English Studies at Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University (MKBU) provided a profound intellectual corrective. The gathering was not a retreat into "colonial grievances" or a rejection of the English language. Instead, it was an act of intellectual reclamation. By positioning IKS as an equal participant in global dialogue, the seminar suggested that the future of the humanities lies in a "root...