For the latest survey on the abysmal state of our contributions to world social science, read EPW Jan 1, 2011 Commentary by Shyam Singh. Hegemony continues to rule and determine what is knowledge. Our intellectual contributions are simply not worth being put up there. Millions of social scientists generate “outputs” that the world considers rubbish. So why do we continue to work in such circumstances? Because our more “successful” intellectuals succumb to the few crumbs that drop from Western academia in terms of guest lectureships, conferences, seminars and probably appointments.
Intellectuals as mentally enslaved as this will take centuries to be free.