Gautam Adani Pledges Rs 100 Crore for Bharat Knowledge Graph: Revitalizing India's Ancient Wisdom in the Digital Age

The Global Indology Conclave is currently taking place at the Adani Corporate House.

New Delhi:

During the inaugural Adani Global Indology Conclave, Gautam Adani, Chairman of the Adani Group, revealed a significant initiative called the Bharat Knowledge Graph—a pioneering digital framework designed to preserve, organize, and future-proof India's ancient knowledge in the era of Artificial Intelligence.

The three-day Global Indology Conclave, a collaborative effort between the Adani Group and the Ministry of Education's Indian Knowledge Systems (IKS), aims to revitalize Indology—the worldwide academic study of India's civilization, languages, philosophies, sciences, and cultural heritage.

In his keynote address, Gautam Adani stated, "As a beginning, I am humbled to announce a founding contribution of Rs 100 crore towards building the Bharat Knowledge Graph and supporting the scholars and technologists who will contribute to this Indology mission. This is the repayment of a civilizational debt."

The conclave was honored by the presence of Swami Avimukteshwaranand Saraswati, Jagadguru Shankaracharya of Jyotir Math—the 46th in an uninterrupted lineage of revered spiritual leaders tracing their authority back to Adi Shankaracharya himself.

During his address, the Shankaracharya expressed, "When I assumed the position of Shankaracharya, I had said that my role would become meaningful only when India becomes the Vishwaguru (global teacher). And today, Gautam Adani ji's initiative is a major support to that very dream of mine."

The Global Indology Conclave is being hosted at the Adani Corporate House in Ahmedabad from November 20 to 22, 2025. At a time when Indology departments worldwide are diminishing, this initiative seeks to reclaim India's ownership of its knowledge systems and present them globally through an authentic, research-driven Indian perspective.

Gautam Adani further emphasized, "If a civilisation does not actively defend its cultural and emotional frameworks, human behaviour will bend, not towards culture or tradition, but towards the cold logic of the machine's algorithms. This shift will be silent, gradual and will reshape how we feel, learn and analyse our own country."

This partnership combines the Adani Group's enduring commitment to nation-building with IKS's mandate to integrate India's traditional knowledge frameworks into contemporary education. Established under the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, IKS works to mainstream ancient Indian wisdom across disciplines, promoting interdisciplinary research, preservation of texts and practices, and practical application in modern contexts including engineering, environmental science, linguistics, public policy, and healthcare.

Historically, Indology has shaped global understanding of India, influencing diverse sectors such as linguistics, astronomy, mathematics, governance, literature, and health sciences. However, decades of declining institutional support have weakened its academic depth. To address this challenge, the Adani Group and IKS are spearheading a five-year program supporting 14 PhD scholars across leading institutions. Their research will encompass Paninian grammar and computational linguistics, ancient astronomical systems, indigenous healthcare frameworks, sustainability principles in traditional engineering, political thought, heritage studies, and classical literature.

The scholars were selected through a comprehensive national consultation involving IITs, IIMs, IKS-focused universities, and distinguished scholars. By integrating classical knowledge with advanced tools such as data science, systems thinking, and multimodal archiving, the program aims to make Indology relevant to contemporary academic discourse and global scholarship.

Grounded in the principle of Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam—the ancient Indian philosophy of "the world as one family"—the initiative reflects the Adani Group's commitment to enhancing India's soft power and civilizational leadership.

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