Making itself irrelevant: How Indian academia is outsourcing its credibility to foreign journals

Making itself irrelevant: How Indian academia is outsourcing its credibility to foreign journals Gupta, Sonali creator text Economic & Political Weekly monographic eng 61(17), Apr 25, 2026: p.19-22 Indian 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 https://www.epw.in/journal/2026/17/commentary/making-itself-irrelevant.html Economic & Political Weekly 260522