The conversion issue

[Bijoy Misra]

On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Partha Banerjee wrote:

>
> >Scholars study history, culture, rituals, politics,
> >but they aren't politicians.  Dogmas are left for
> >the preachers, evangelists, orators, who have taken
> >upon themselves the act of preaching.
>
> To believe that "scholars" cannot be political is dogmatic too. There have
> been many scholars who kept involved in political theorization and
> activism. I see no problems with that. We also need to define what is
> politics and what is not.
>

I thought you would react.  You do have political tone
and various postings show bias.

> never preached beyond the borders of India? Or, are we implying whatever
> regions were under their preaching mission are/were all nothing but parts
> of Hindu India or Bharatvarsha?
>
>
> Just my two cents.
>
> -Partha
>
>
> p.s. -- In my opinion, one "scholar" publicly calling another names
> (communist or anti-Indian or whatever) is not quite scholarly.
>

Your activism is appreciated..

- BM