The Making of Next-Generation Institutions Institutions do not merely transmit knowledge — they decide, again and again, what counts as knowledge at all. Institutions as Contested Ground o institution simply transmits knowledge; it decides, again and again, what counts as knowledge at all. Every curriculum committee, accreditation visit, and funding formula encodes a judgment about which questions are worth asking. India is rebuilding this machinery under the National Education Policy 2020, through new autonomy regimes, a reformed accreditation system, and an unsettled debate over what should replace the University Grants Commission. The real stakes go beyond administrative reform: institutions are where knowledge, power, and policy are continuously negotiated. Whose Knowledge Counts Michel Foucault argued that what a society accepts as …