Description
The epistemological and ontological hold of the colonial knowledge system continues to exacerbate the epistemic and the structural hierarchies which are a characteristic feature of North-South dichotomy, also within the Global South. This necessitates the need for understanding the assumptions and identifying patterns of knowledge production in IR not only in the Global North but also within the Global South. In this paper, I examine how the epistemic and structural hierarchies in mainstream IR manifest in knowledge production in IR in India between different epistemic communities (English and Hindi Speaking). Methodologically this would entail using mixed methods, incorporating interviews, surveys and qualitative social network analysis. Looking at IR in the specific case of India, as one of the leading voices from the Global South and also being intertwined in the Global IR debate will offer unique possibilities of identifying underlying patterns of knowledge production and finding potential pathways and challenges for intellectual decolonisation in IR in general and in the Global South in particular.
