Preface

Abstract

The National Knowledge Commission (NKC) brought together some of brightest public intellectuals in India, led by an IT entrepreneur, Sam Pitroda. While the Commission did not have a large budget, its power lay in the fact that it reported directly to the Prime Minister in a series of short policy papers rather than a large report, as is normally the case. As I understand it, this innovative structure for the development of policy was designed not so much as to make a large number of recommendations but to change the policy discourses in India concerning the relationship between knowledge and education.