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Conclusion

• We in India have already set up mechanisms to ensure academic integrity, to prevent plagiarism
by Indian researchers, and to penalize our researchers when they do wrong.

• We must similarly set up new mechanisms to enhance the visibility of Indian research output, to
ensure that it receives due credit and is not ignored.

• We need to change our servile mentality of living with humility (aankhein jhukakar) and teach
our young researchers that they have to live with self-respect (aankhein milakar). We must set
up mechanisms to provide support to our researchers when we are wronged, just as we in India
have set up mechanisms to penalize our researchers when we do wrong. Such new mechanisms
would ensure that Indian work is not ignored and receives due credit.
• We must provide support to our researchers when they are wronged (by someone from abroad
taking their work or idea and passing it off as their own) and denied due credit.
• My dictum to combating plagiarism is, “one should be neither a perpetrator, nor a victim, of
plagiarism”. There are various precautions that I have suggested earlier (Chaddah, 2018a, op.
cit.) to ensure that we cannot be scooped, and that we can register and protect ownership of
our novel ideas in an academically accepted way. Designing our research problems, utilizing
Chanakya’s philosophy, will ensure that we are not scooped. This was outside the scope of this
Chapter but has been discussed elsewhere (ibid.). Registering and protecting ownership will
benefit from the proposed mechanism under the aegis of UGC.

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