About the Journal

Pajjoya: Journal of Indian Knowledge Systems in Education is a peer-reviewed, open-access, multilingual research journal devoted to the scholarly study of Indian Knowledge Systems and their engagement with contemporary educational theory, policy and practice.

The Name

The journal takes its name from the Ardhamāgadhī Prakrit word pajjoya (पज्जोय) — illumination, radiance — corresponding to Sanskrit pradyota and recorded as such in the Paia-sadda-mahannavo, the standard Prakrit lexicon. The word occurs in the Namotthuṇaṁ (Śakra-stava), the hymn traditionally ascribed to Indra and among the most widely recited of the Jain liturgical texts, in the epithet loga-pajjoya-garāṇaṁ: to those who make light for the world.

The choice of a Prakrit rather than a Sanskrit title is deliberate. Ardhamāgadhī is the language of the Jain Āgamas and one of the most consequential and least studied vehicles of Indian thought, and this journal holds that it belongs within the study of Indian knowledge systems on equal terms with Sanskrit.

Purpose

The journal was established in response to the National Education Policy 2020, which mandates the integration of India's intellectual traditions into curricula at every level. That mandate has generated considerable activity but comparatively little rigorous scholarship. Pajjoya exists to supply a forum in which this integration can be examined critically — neither uncritically celebrated nor dismissed — through historical scholarship, philosophical analysis, empirical classroom research, and policy evaluation.

The journal is non-sectarian. It publishes work on Vedic, Buddhist, Jain, and all other Indian intellectual traditions on equal terms, and welcomes critical and comparative scholarship, including work sceptical of prevailing IKS discourse.

Sections

 
 Śikṣā-Darśana — Educational Thought in Indian Philosophical Traditions
 
 Bhāṣā-Śikṣaṇa — Classical Language Pedagogy
 
 Pāṭhyakrama — Curriculum Design and Implementation
 
 Kakṣā-Anusandhāna — Empirical Classroom Research
 
 Nīti-Vimarśa — Policy and Critical Perspectives

Publisher

Pajjoya is published by Shri Pragya Mahavidyalaya, Bijainagar, District Beawar, Rajasthan – 305624, India, through its Sundarbai Chordia Centre for Research and Innovation, and appears half-yearly, in January and July. The college is an initiative of Shri Pragya Jain Smarak Samiti.

Editorial correspondence: editor@pajjoyajournal.org