CIVILIZATIONAL ANXIETY AND THE CRISIS OF KNOWLEDGE CONTINUITY: A 2K–3C–IBP ANALYSIS

This paper examines a composite body of contemporary civilizational discourse expressing anxiety about identity, justice, institutional legitimacy, and historical memory in postcolonial India. Rather than adjudicating the factual truth of claims within the discourse, the study treats the material as a discursive formation and analyzes its structural features using Singh’s 2K–3C Framework of Knowledge Continuity and the Ideology versus Basket of Perspectives (IBP) approach. The analysis identifies a perceived rupture across all five stages of the epistemic cycle: archival distrust, adaptation anxiety, communicative fragmentation, stakeholder alienation, and feedback breakdown. IBP triangulation reveals that the discourse simultaneously contains structural grievances, emotional amplification, and rhetorical excess typical of societies undergoing rapid modernization. The central tension revealed is a struggle over narrative authorship and moral legitimacy. The paper argues that civilizational stability depends on restoring epistemic feedback mechanisms without erasing inherited archives. The study contributes to civilizational theory by reframing ideological conflict as a crisis of knowledge continuity.