Gautam Adani Commits ₹100 Crore To Bharat Knowledge Graph At Global Indology Conclave

Adani Group Chairman Gautam Adani has announced a significant ₹100 crore contribution to the Indology Mission, a landmark national effort dedicated to creating the Bharat Knowledge Graph — a digital platform designed to preserve and structure India’s vast civilisational heritage in the era of Artificial Intelligence.

The announcement came during the three-day Global Indology Conclave, jointly hosted by the Adani Group and the Ministry of Education’s Indian Knowledge Systems (IKS).

Held at the Adani Corporate House in Ahmedabad from 20 to 22 November 2025, the conclave brings together leading scholars and experts to reinvigorate Indology, the global academic study of India’s civilisation, languages, philosophies, sciences and cultural knowledge.

While delivering the keynote address, Adani announced a founding contribution of ₹100 crore to build the Bharat Knowledge Graph and support the scholars and technologists contributing to the Indology Mission, calling it a repayment of a civilisational debt.

A Significant Endorsement

The guest of honour, Jagadguru Shankaracharya Swami Avimukteshwaranand Saraswati of Jyotir Math, praised the initiative, stating, “My role becomes meaningful only when India becomes the Vishwaguru. Gautam Adani ji’s initiative is a major support to that dream.”

After the event, Gautam Adani posted a message on X, expressing his gratitude for the Shankaracharya’s presence: “It was a deep privilege and honour to welcome Jagadguru Shankaracharya Swami Avimukteshwaranand Saraswati Ji Maharaj at the Adani Global Indology Conclave 2025, and to be blessed by his divine presence.”

Preserving Knowledge in the Age of Algorithms

Adani emphasised that civilisations must actively defend their cultural and emotional foundations.

“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,” he warned.

Under the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, the IKS division promotes interdisciplinary research and preservation of ancient Indian knowledge across domains such as engineering, healthcare, linguistics, environmental studies and public policy.

To address declining academic engagement in Indology, the Adani Group and IKS have also launched a five-year programme to support 14 PhD scholars.

Their areas of research include Paninian grammar, computational linguistics, ancient astronomy, indigenous medical systems, sustainability principles in traditional engineering, political thought, heritage studies and classical literature.

A rigorous national consultation involving IITs, IIMs and IKS-focused universities selected the scholars.

By integrating classical knowledge with contemporary tools such as data science, systems thinking and multimodal archiving, the initiative aims to make Indology relevant to global academia.

Rooted in the ethos of Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam — the belief that the world is one family — the Indology Mission reflects the Adani Group’s commitment to strengthening India’s soft power and civilisational leadership.

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