In our volatile world, each nation-state needs a well-defined set of principles that affirm its right to self-determination. Euro-Atlantic interests have dominated the global discourse since the development of the modern period, influencing the trade, climate, and strategic policies of developing nations. To challenge this hegemony, the countries of the Global South must realise a moral imperative to secure their diplomatic independence. A potent way to achieve this is by operationalising Indigenous Knowledge Systems in foreign policymaking. India, an emerging Great Power, can exemplify an ideologically sovereign nation that applies this decolonial epistemology