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पज्जोय

Pajjoya

Journal of Indian Knowledge Systems in Education

भारतीय ज्ञान परम्परा एवं शिक्षा शोध पत्रिका

The name

Pajjoya — illumination. An Ardhamāgadhī Prakrit word, Sanskrit pradyota.

The title is drawn from Prakrit rather than Sanskrit by deliberate choice. Ardhamāgadhī is the language of the Jain Āgamas and one of the most consequential and least studied vehicles of Indian thought; it belongs within the study of Indian knowledge systems on equal terms.

About the journal

A scholarly forum for Indian Knowledge Systems in education

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

The National Education Policy 2020 mandates the integration of India's intellectual traditions into curricula at every level. That mandate has generated considerable activity but comparatively little rigorous scholarship. This journal exists to supply a forum in which the 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.

Scope

Five sections

  • शिक्षा-दर्शन Śikṣā-Darśana — Educational thought in Indian philosophical traditions Theories of knowledge and learning in Vedic, Buddhist, Jain, Nyāya and allied schools; pramāṇa theory and its pedagogical consequences; the guru–śiṣya relation as an educational model.
  • भाषा-शिक्षण Bhāṣā-Śikṣaṇa — Classical language pedagogy Teaching methods for Sanskrit, Prakrit and Pali; the grammatical traditions as pedagogy; digital and corpus approaches to classical texts in the classroom.
  • पाठ्यक्रम Pāṭhyakrama — Curriculum design and implementation IKS integration in school and higher education under NEP 2020; Indian mathematics, astronomy, āyurveda, architecture and the arts as taught subjects; textbook and assessment analysis.
  • कक्षा-अनुसन्धान Kakṣā-Anusandhāna — Empirical classroom research Evidence-based studies of traditional pedagogic methods and Indian values frameworks in contemporary classrooms; learning outcomes; intervention studies.
  • नीति-विमर्श Nīti-Vimarśa — Policy and critical perspectives NEP 2020 implementation analysis; teacher preparation and institutional capacity; comparative studies; critical and historiographical readings of IKS discourse.

Call for papers

Volume 1, Issue 1 — January 2027

Submissions close 31 October 2026

Original research is invited for the inaugural issue. Papers are accepted in English, Hindi and Sanskrit; an English abstract and keywords are required for every submission whatever the language of the full text.

Send manuscripts to editor@pajjoyajournal.org as two separate Word files:

1. Anonymised manuscript — title, abstracts, keywords, main text and references, with no author name, affiliation, acknowledgement or funding information anywhere in the file.
2. Title page — title, all authors with affiliations, ORCID iDs and emails, corresponding author, funding and conflict of interest statements.

The two-file requirement allows the editorial office to send your manuscript to reviewers without disclosing your identity. Submissions that identify the author within the manuscript file are returned for correction before review.

  • Article length5,000–8,000 words for research articles
  • Peer reviewDouble-blind, two independent reviewers, six to eight weeks
  • ChargesNone. No submission fee, no publication fee, no charge to readers
  • LicenceCC BY 4.0 · copyright retained by authors · no embargo
  • IdentifiersA Crossref DOI is assigned to every article
  • FrequencyHalf-yearly — January and July
  • e-ISSNApplied for

Editorial board

The founding board is being constituted

Invitations to serve on the Editorial Board and the International Advisory Board are currently being issued to scholars in India and abroad. Members are asked to review two or three manuscripts a year, suggest reviewers in their area, and advise on editorial direction.

Scholars working in any of the journal's five sections who would be willing to serve as reviewers are warmly invited to write to editor@pajjoyajournal.org with a brief note of their area of expertise.

The full editorial team, together with the journal's peer review, ethics, authorship, licensing and appeals policies, will be published here shortly.