German Indology

[Ulrike Niklas]

I cant imagine anything more *distasteful* than this answer by Dominik 
Wujastyk. The booklet in question only serves the purpose to fascilitate 
communication between collegues. - No more comments, I hope!
ULRIKE
a "German Indologist".
 

On Thu, 20 Feb 1997, Dominik Wujastyk wrote:

> 
> Thanks to Gabriele Zeller for describing the book 'German Indology'
> clearly.  
> 
> I was very startled when I first saw this little book some years ago. 
> Such a production in the United Kingdom would be quite beyond the pale. 
> It wouldn't be a problem listing the Oriental Institutes in Britain, say,
> but to go further and list the details of all British-born scholars
> working elsewhere in the world just on the basis of their nationality
> would be felt to be distasteful, to say the least.
> 
> To do "German Indology" credit, it does list Emmerick in Hamburg, in spite
> of his Australian nationality (at least I assume he still holds an ozzie
> passport).  But this goes against the spirit of the booklet.
> 
> All the best,
> Dominik
> 
> --
> Dominik Wujastyk               Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine
> email: d.wujastyk at ucl.ac.uk          183 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE, England
> <URL: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucgadkw/>                    FAX: 44 171 611 8545
> 
> 
> 
>