01070nam a22001097a 4500008004100000100001800041245010100059260003400160300003400194520069800228773003400926260522b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aGupta, Sonali  aMaking itself irrelevant: How Indian academia is outsourcing its credibility to foreign journals  aEconomic & Political Weekly    a61(17), Apr 25, 2026: p.19-22  aIndian business schools and institutions of management, social sciences, and humanities are structurally dependent on foreign journals for validating their research output. This article examines the political economy behind this paradox: a research ecosystem that compels scholars to publish in expensive international outlets while institutions simultaneously pay substantial public funds to access the very knowledge they produce. The result is an academic system that outsources its intellectual authority, devalues domestic publishing capacity, and remains peripheral in global knowledge production.-Reproduced 

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