Towards a Culturally Grounded Psychology: Indigenous Frameworks and Empirical Insights from India

This edited volume reimagines psychological science through Indian cultural, philosophical, and spiritual traditions, responding to growing concerns about the dominance of Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic (WEIRD) paradigms in mainstream psychology.Questioning universalist assumptions and imposed etics, the volume advances a context-sensitive, bottom-up approach that takes culture and lived experience seriously in the study of well-being, resilience, and flourishing. Grounded in Indigenous Psychology and contemporary positive psychology, the book integrates Indian constructs such as anasakti (non-attachment), samatva (equanimity). ananda (bliss), and related ideas from yoga, Vedanta, Buddhism, and the Bhagavad Gita with empirical rigor.It brings together mixed-method research, narrative inquiry, and culturally valid psychometric research to demonstrate how indigenous epistemologies can coexist with scientific standards of reliability and validity. Drawing on contr