Policymaking in the Euro-American context has been historically bound within the framework of sovereign nation-states until the neoliberalisation of western liberal democracies back in the 1980s. However, I have argued elsewhere that global and local congeries have historically shaped policies (including educational policies) in the colonial and postcolonial contexts such as India (Mukherjee & Suresh, 2018). National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 is a good example of policy assemblage, whereby the policy text draws on global education policy mandates in the twenty-first century while still being committed to the needs of the postcolonial political economy and social imaginary of nation building through education as a sovereign postcolonial Indian nation-state. In fact, nation building is still the primary agenda of NEP 2020, though it also emphasises the need to educate for global citizenship.