Promoting Indological studies in the spheres of Literature, Education, Philosophy, History, Linguistics
Advancement of liberal learning on the basis of changing social consciousness.
Preservation of the traditional, balanced against the trends of modernisation.
Including academicians, scholars, and researchers from all over the world to come together to build an international knowledge network.
Building a new and modern society based on the values and worldviews inspired from Sanskrit literature and philosophy.
Democratisation of education and of the campus space.
Promoting free and critical thinking, questioning, debates and discourses.
Building a secular and democratic academic environment.
Mission
A more global approach to education and research
Increase in excellence and diversification of Sanskrit education
Making the ancient, medieval and other knowledge sources in Sanskrit available to all.
Participating in and contributing richly and meaningfully to the universal nexus of knowledge, growth and learning.
Updating and modernising knowledge with a critical and creative interaction with the traditional—following the legacy of Pt. Ishwarchandra Vidyasagar.
Making Traditional Oriental Learning available and relevant to all.
Objective
A massive digitisation programme to place the collection of 25000 manuscripts in the cultural commons.
Contributing to a global interconnected network of sharing and multiplying knowledge
Introducing and strengthening multi- disciplinary courses in the curriculum.
Introducing contemporary fields of study such as Museology, Indology, Oriental studies, Manuscriptology and studies on post/ colonialism for students and research scholars.
Enriching one full- fledged and active research department in Sanskrit and Indology in the Nabadwip Campus.
Building the Sanskrit Charcha Kendra at Nabadwip as a state of the art research centre and archive of Sanskrit studies.
Publishing and maintaining high standard of the prestigious journal Our Heritage which has been successfully revived.
Establishing a second campus to diversify academic activities.
Spreading our base out of the metropolis and reaching out to various corners of rural Bengal.
Setting up an Ishwarchandra Vidyasagar centre for research and documentation.
Celebration of the bi- centenary of the birth of Pt. Ishwarchandra Vidyasagar.
Initiating research courses in various disciplines to promote cutting-edge multi- disciplinary knowledge creation.
Encouraging research in Pali and Prakrit
Introducing MA and research programme in Linguistics.
Promoting the study of classical languages such as Tamil, Mandarin etc.