DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18163576
title: C³–IKS Framework (Version 2): Civilizational Cognition and Contemporary Integration System – A Constitutionally Compliant, Secular, and Administratively Executable Model for Integrating Indic Civilizational Cognition into Contemporary Education and Governance

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C³–IKS Framework (Version 2)

Civilizational Cognition and Contemporary Integration System

The C³–IKS Framework (Civilizational Cognition and Contemporary Integration System), Version 2 – Final Complete Ultimate Edition, is a rigorously articulated, constitutionally compliant, secular, and administratively executable framework for integrating Indic civilizational cognition into contemporary education, governance, and public-policy ecosystems. This clean pre-print consolidates conceptual clarity, methodological rigor, legal and judicial safety, administrative realism, and international comparability into a single policy-grade and publication-ready reference document, suitable for academic citation, policy adoption, and pilot deployment.

The framework systematically reconceptualizes Indic civilizational knowledge not as theology, ritual, metaphysics, cultural heritage, or identity-based instruction, but as civilizational cognition: a pre-theological, pre-political cognitive operating system composed of reusable ethical heuristics, principles of epistemic integrity, institutional reasoning tools, and long-term sustainability intelligence. All concepts are treated strictly as analytical and functional categories. Belief systems, worship, ritual practice, metaphysical claims, doctrinal assertions, and cultural symbolism are explicitly excluded, ensuring full compatibility with secular pedagogy, constitutional jurisprudence, and internationally accepted academic norms.

Version 2 introduces a four-pillar execution architecture that enables lawful and operational integration:



Civilizational Cognition (CC) – pre-institutional ethical and epistemic intelligence abstracted as analytical heuristics (e.g., systems order, epistemic integrity, role-based ethical responsibility, resource circulation, and long-term resilience);

Institutional Translation (IT) – systematic conversion of cognition into constitutionally legible, secular, and jurisprudence-safe institutional forms;

Contemporary Application (CA) – deployment across modern domains including education, climate policy, public administration, and AI governance;

Governance & Execution (GE) – authority mapping, constitutional and judicial safeguards, pedagogical protocols, pilot economics, risk-mitigation mechanisms, assessment alignment, monitoring indicators, and auditability.


Methodologically, the framework is derived through:(a) abstraction of classical Indic sources exclusively for conceptual and cognitive patterns;(b) comparative analysis with Confucian ethics, Greek philosophy, Roman civic theory, and Enlightenment rationality to establish analytical equivalence;(c) a constitutional and jurisprudential scan to ensure legal compatibility; and(d) policy-design logic to guarantee administrative executability and scalability.A dedicated positioning analysis distinguishes C³–IKS from value-education, heritage-centric, or cultural-revival initiatives, establishing it instead as a policy-grade translation architecture for civilizational cognition.

The framework is explicitly aligned with the Constitution of India (including Articles 21 and 51A(h)), Supreme Court jurisprudence on secular, value-based education (notably Aruna Roy v. Union of India, 2002), the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, and UNESCO principles on education, sustainability, and global citizenship. A worked AI governance case study demonstrates how civilizational cognition can inform contemporary policy design using entirely secular regulatory language consistent with global norms of algorithmic accountability, impact assessment, and precautionary governance.

Designed as a policy-adoptable, academically rigorous, and pilot-deployable reference framework, this Final Complete Ultimate Edition is fully compatible with secular democracies worldwide. No cultural assimilation, belief adoption, or identity enforcement is required. Assessment is competency-based, evidence-driven, and non-ideological.

This edition establishes a world-class benchmark for the systematic translation of civilizational cognition into contemporary institutional reasoning, positioning India as a contemporary knowledge-producing civilization and offering a globally legible, constitutionally safe model for education reform, ethics curricula, sustainability policy, and emerging-technology governance.