Dialogues on Knowledge in Society is a journal intended to serve as a platform for open and inclusive debates on contemporary issues in Development, carried out from a Knowledge standpoint.

The question of Knowledge has increasingly become a component of all debates on Development, directly or indirectly, along with ideas of Equity, Freedom and Sustainability. Modern Science and Technology have already been a topic of contention in such debates for nearly a century now, and this questioning of Modern Science & Technology by the non-Westernised world is presently expanding to cover otherareas of the Knowledge Domain as well, going beyond just Science & Tech.

In the Indian context, what is giving additional strength to this questioning has been the existence of strong Indigenous Traditions of knowledge, covering almost all areas of human endeavour. A similar situation presents itself in many other non-Western societies too. The aim of such a questioning or challenge is not so much to do away with Western knowledge altogether, but rather to claim the rightful place for the Indigenous and the local in the knowledge domain. That the Knowledge space is beginning to get contested is an important and positive development for the entire world. It could help put an end to the destruction and ravages caused in the last few centuries by the domination of the West in almost all the fields, especially so in Sciences and Technologies. The contestation in the Knowledge space could potentially show a way out, and come up with something that is more holistic, humane, inclusive, tolerant, non-hegemonistic and
sustainable. Going beyond the concept of narrow "scientific rationality", this new Knowledge would also include concepts of Justice, Compassion and Duty, besides Equity, Freedom and Sustainability.

The proposed Journal would address these broad concerns in the Knowledge space.