Every society devises its own sets of rules and regulations in accordance with its own culture and tradition. These sets of rules and regulations are internal to the knowledge system within which the society functions and aspires for its future. The overall growth and development of the society mainly depends upon the compatibility of its system and cultural contours. The symbiotic link between the system which regulates the society and its development is vital for its survival and growth. The colonial intrusion in Indian society resulted in dislocation of such vital linkages which regulated the system and society while shaping its future in simultaneity. Colonialism came with its own sets of rules and regulations, systems and institutions at the peril of indigenous ones. While the society could not be made compatible with the system nor was the process to reverse the trends appeared possible. Colonial and indigenous, both have their own advantages and disadvantages. Both systems were the product of two different knowledge systems located in different civilizational framework.

Integral Knowledge aims at synthesising the best of both colonial/western and indigenous/Indic knowledge systems. It is now being realised that colonial institutions/systems could not functions satisfactorily in Indic cultural context owing to their incompatibility with civilizational knowledge system. At the same time the Indic civilizational system remains locked in the past with systemic snapping of its symbiotic linkages by colonial intrusion. A process of synthesis may be initiated by unlocking the Indic civilizational knowledge system locked in the past and by correspondingly heralding the process of systemic correction in systems/institutions which remain ossified in colonial/western moorings. The resultant “Integral Knowledge” would pave the path of harmonious synthesis compatible to Indic civilizational ethos and values.