From jfitzge1 at UTK.EDU  Sat Jan  3 17:19:20 2004
From: jfitzge1 at UTK.EDU (James L. Fitzgerald)
Date: Sat, 03 Jan 04 12:19:20 -0500
Subject: Mahabharata translation
Message-ID: <161227073657.23782.11523792648221056395.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

Dear Dr. Fosse and Indology colleagues,



The imminent appearance of my "Volume 7" (the first half of the Santiparvan,
preceded by the Striparvan) of the now projected 10 volume MBh translation
series has generated new interest and energy toward finishing the remaining
volumes. I will myself begin revising my completed translation of the
Moksadharma parvan (which will be Volume 8; a preview is available in the
piece "Nun Befuddles King, Shows karmayoga Does Not Work: Sulabha's
Refutation of King Janaka at MBh 12.308," Journal of Indian Philosophy 30.6
[December, 2002] :641-77) as soon as a few remaining editorial obligations
are completed, and different Sanskritists are now committed to all remaining
parts of the series. As all of the formalities have not yet been finalized
with the University of Chicago Press in connection with those who have
recently joined the project, I am at liberty to mention only the two
scholars who have been working on other parts of the MBh for some time now,
namely David Gitomer and Wendy Doniger. David has a draft translation of the
Bhismaparvan (which will form Volume 4) and Wendy has a draft of much of
books 15-18 (which will form the end of Volume 10, preceded by another's
translation of the Asvamedhikaparvan). Volumes 4, 8, and 10 should all have
appeared within the next five years, and the remaining three volumes (5
[Drona], 6 [Karna, Salya, and Sauptika], and 9 [Anusasana]) will, I hope,
not be too far behind those.



In closing let me add that I was well aware that readers of the Stri and
Santiparvans would be at a disadvantage until the account of the war had
also been translated. So I have included a few aids in Volume 7 aiming to
help readers bridge the gap. Mainly these consist of 1] a brief synopsis of
the action and events of Books 6-10; 2] a fairly detailed "List of
Characters and Places" referred to in Volume 7 (as Gandhari, in the
Striparvan, essentially calls an 'honor-roll' of the war dead, it was
important to compile this list and include the major points of note [with
full references to the earlier parts of the MBh--CE & the Roy transl.] for
each figure for the sake of intelligibility and internal referencing); and
3] a somewhat fuller use of the "glossing-footnotes" than Hans van Buitenen
made.



With best wishes to all for 2004,

Jim Fitzgerald, General Editor of the Chicago Mahabharata Translation

[I shall be away from my email from Monday January 5, 2004, to Monday,
January 12, 2004]





----- Original Message -----
From: "Lars Martin Fosse" <lmfosse at ONLINE.NO>
To: <INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk>
Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2004 10:45 AM
Subject: Mahabharata translation


> Dear members of the list,
>
> I have seen an announcement of the publication of volume 7 of the great
> Mahabharata translation (the continuation of van Buitenen's work).
> However, I have not been able to find any reference to volume 6. Has
> volume 6 appeared, or will it appear some time in the future?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Lars Martin Fosse
>
> From:
> Dr.art. Lars Martin Fosse
> Haugerudvn. 76, Leil. 114,
> 0674 Oslo - Norway
> Phone: +47 22 32 12 19 Fax:  +47 850 21 250
> Mobile phone: +47 90 91 91 45
> E-mail: lmfosse at online.no
> DO NOT OPEN UNEXPECTED ATTACHMENTS.
> MY EMAIL ADDRESS IS BEING ABUSED BY
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From lmfosse at ONLINE.NO  Sat Jan  3 15:45:39 2004
From: lmfosse at ONLINE.NO (Lars Martin Fosse)
Date: Sat, 03 Jan 04 16:45:39 +0100
Subject: Mahabharata translation
Message-ID: <161227073654.23782.13766340309974062119.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

Dear members of the list,

I have seen an announcement of the publication of volume 7 of the great
Mahabharata translation (the continuation of van Buitenen's work).
However, I have not been able to find any reference to volume 6. Has
volume 6 appeared, or will it appear some time in the future?

Best regards,

Lars Martin Fosse

From:
Dr.art. Lars Martin Fosse
Haugerudvn. 76, Leil. 114,
0674 Oslo - Norway
Phone: +47 22 32 12 19 Fax:  +47 850 21 250
Mobile phone: +47 90 91 91 45
E-mail: lmfosse at online.no
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From j_e_m_houben at YAHOO.COM  Mon Jan  5 16:22:55 2004
From: j_e_m_houben at YAHOO.COM (Jan E.M. Houben)
Date: Mon, 05 Jan 04 08:22:55 -0800
Subject: Disgusting Shiv Sena attack on Professor S. Bahulkar
In-Reply-To: <200312191129.25444.zydenbos@lrz.uni-muenchen.de>
Message-ID: <161227073660.23782.3329051942595253303.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

Shiv Sena attack on Professor S. Bahulkar,
disgusted G. Mehendale suspends publication of
Shivaji biography till after his death:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/385626.cms

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/385627.cms




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From witzel at FAS.HARVARD.EDU  Mon Jan  5 19:57:39 2004
From: witzel at FAS.HARVARD.EDU (Mi. Witzel)
Date: Mon, 05 Jan 04 14:57:39 -0500
Subject: attacks on Bhandarkar Institute &  S. Bahulkar
Message-ID: <161227073665.23782.6167232615632689841.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

The Hindu's News update: 1/5/04
http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/00405183011.htm

Regional
Maharashtra: Mob ransacks research institute, 70 held
Pune, Jan. 5. (PTI): An angry mob allegedly owing allegiance to "Sambhaji
Brigade" of Maratha Mahasangh, `destroyed' thousands of rare manuscripts
and other priceless articles at the acclaimed Bhandarkar Oriental Research
Institute here, to protest 'disparaging' remarks by a foreign author about
Chhatrapati Shivaji, police said.
Seventy people were arrested in this connection and charged under various
sections of IPC, police said adding that the mob also took away several
rare books.
A mob of about 150 people came in vehicles and barged into the institute,
snapped telephone lines, ransacked the cupboards, tore thousands of books
and badly damaged writings on palm leaves, rare artefacts and old
photographs.
The mob was protesting against objectionable remarks by author James Lane,
renowned Maratha warrior Chhatrapathi Shivaji in his book 'Shivaji: Hindu
King in Islamic India'.
It damaged the Mahabhartiya department, manuscript department, publication
department and Postgraduate Teaching and research of the institute, founded
on July 6, 1917 to commemorate the work of Ramkrishna Gopal Bhandarkar.
The mob also damaged computers, xerox machines, furniture, reference index
cards and several things having priceless value.

In detail: http://ww1.mid-day.com/news/city/2004/january/73054.htm  (with
photo of destruction)

cf:  http://www.indiaexpress.com/news/regional/maharashtra/20040105-0.html

Luckily, I filmed some of  their MSS years ago, when they still allowed that...
Such restrictions always work against the institution that imposes them:  QED

=========

See further on S. Bahulkar's minimal help for Lane and the recent,
resultant attack (blackening Bahulkar's face) by Shiv Sena:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/385627.cms
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/385626.cms

Quote: "not a single scholar or professor in the  University  of  Pune
condemned the attack on Bahulkar. "
-- clearly inviting more violence (as above)

==========

It should be clear now why Motilal (recently)  and now Oxford Univ. Press
(India)  have chickened out:

Threats, physical violence and censureship are thriving...

(Remember the OUP resistance against NCERT's scrapping  of 2 books on the
struggle for independence? Or the more recent case of banning DN Jha's
'Holy Cow'?)

Happily, now I (and others) can also expect to get my face blackened
because I sent Jha some information, on his request...   "Bring them on!"

MW




From mmdesh at UMICH.EDU  Mon Jan  5 20:39:24 2004
From: mmdesh at UMICH.EDU (Madhav Deshpande)
Date: Mon, 05 Jan 04 15:39:24 -0500
Subject: SV: attack on Professor S. Bahulkar
Message-ID: <161227073670.23782.3178896235507089665.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

I was in Pune when the attack on Bahulkar took place.  The scholars are the BORI protested in the local news papers about the attack and a Marathi historian tore up his own unpublished book on Shivaji in protest.  Bahulkar informed me that later Raj Thakare, the nephew of Bal Thakare came to Pune to apologise in person.  However, the latest incident at the BORI shows how dangerous the situation has become.  The BORI had made a public declaration that it has nothing to do with the anti-Shivaji remarks.  That was obviously not enough for the mob that came to destroy its holdings.

Madhav Deshpande

-----Original Message-----
From: Indology on behalf of Lars Martin Fosse
Sent: Mon 1/5/2004 3:25 PM
To: INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk
Subject:      SV: attack on Professor S. Bahulkar
 
Harry Falk wrote:
>
> This incredible fashist incident would be easier to digest if
> some scholar from CASS or BORI would tell us that their
> alleged inactivity is a misunderstanding. Harry Falk
>

That might take more than usual courage. People who stand up to Hindutva
activists risk being beaten up severly and have their property smashed.
There is a limit to how courageous we should ask people to be when we're
sitting safe in Europe.

But the incident could perhaps relieve Western scholars of any bad
conscience they might harbour for Western acquisition of manuscripts.
When a country is in turmoil, the cultural heritage is always in grave
danger, as we have seen both in Afghanistan and in the former
Yugoslavia. Sometimes things are safer here than in their country of
origin.

Furthermore, the episode proves how important it is to photograph or
copy and distribute manuscript material as soon as possible. The
catastrophe at the Bhandarkar Research Institute could easily repeat
itself in several places. Manuscripts are threatened by a number of
hazards, not only vandalism. Let us hope that this episode teaches
greater caution and concern.

Best regards,

Lars Martin Fosse


From:
Dr.art. Lars Martin Fosse
Haugerudvn. 76, Leil. 114,
0674 Oslo - Norway
Phone: +47 22 32 12 19 Fax:  +47 850 21 250
Mobile phone: +47 90 91 91 45
E-mail: lmfosse at online.no
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From mmdesh at UMICH.EDU  Tue Jan  6 01:46:07 2004
From: mmdesh at UMICH.EDU (Madhav Deshpande)
Date: Mon, 05 Jan 04 20:46:07 -0500
Subject: SV: attack on Professor S. Bahulkar
Message-ID: <161227073672.23782.10291297483290299181.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

The local Marathi news paper Sakal in Pune has given extensive coverage
of the BORI incident with lots of photographs.  Even if you cannot read
Marathi, you can look up the website of Sakal at
http://www.esakal.com   The photographs are shocking.  

Madhav Deshpande

-----Original Message-----
From: Indology [mailto:INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Madhav
Deshpande
Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 3:39 PM
To: INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk
Subject: Re: SV: attack on Professor S. Bahulkar


I was in Pune when the attack on Bahulkar took place.  The scholars at
the BORI protested in the local news papers about the attack and a
Marathi historian tore up his own unpublished book on Shivaji in
protest.  Bahulkar informed me that later Raj Thakare, the nephew of Bal
Thakare came to Pune to apologise in person.  However, the latest
incident at the BORI shows how dangerous the situation has become.  The
BORI had made a public declaration that it has nothing to do with the
anti-Shivaji remarks.  That was obviously not enough for the mob that
came to destroy its holdings.

Madhav Deshpande

-----Original Message-----
From: Indology on behalf of Lars Martin Fosse
Sent: Mon 1/5/2004 3:25 PM
To: INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk
Subject:      SV: attack on Professor S. Bahulkar
 
Harry Falk wrote:
>
> This incredible fashist incident would be easier to digest if some 
> scholar from CASS or BORI would tell us that their alleged inactivity 
> is a misunderstanding. Harry Falk
>

That might take more than usual courage. People who stand up to Hindutva
activists risk being beaten up severly and have their property smashed.
There is a limit to how courageous we should ask people to be when we're
sitting safe in Europe.

But the incident could perhaps relieve Western scholars of any bad
conscience they might harbour for Western acquisition of manuscripts.
When a country is in turmoil, the cultural heritage is always in grave
danger, as we have seen both in Afghanistan and in the former
Yugoslavia. Sometimes things are safer here than in their country of
origin.

Furthermore, the episode proves how important it is to photograph or
copy and distribute manuscript material as soon as possible. The
catastrophe at the Bhandarkar Research Institute could easily repeat
itself in several places. Manuscripts are threatened by a number of
hazards, not only vandalism. Let us hope that this episode teaches
greater caution and concern.

Best regards,

Lars Martin Fosse


From:
Dr.art. Lars Martin Fosse
Haugerudvn. 76, Leil. 114,
0674 Oslo - Norway
Phone: +47 22 32 12 19 Fax:  +47 850 21 250
Mobile phone: +47 90 91 91 45
E-mail: lmfosse at online.no
DO NOT OPEN UNEXPECTED ATTACHMENTS.
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From falk at ZEDAT.FU-BERLIN.DE  Mon Jan  5 19:46:20 2004
From: falk at ZEDAT.FU-BERLIN.DE (Harry Falk)
Date: Mon, 05 Jan 04 20:46:20 +0100
Subject: attack on Professor S. Bahulkar
In-Reply-To: <20040105162255.66393.qmail@web40809.mail.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <161227073662.23782.15184984991855520518.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

This incredible fashist incident would be easier to digest if some
scholar from
CASS or BORI would tell us that their alleged inactivity is a
misunderstanding.
Harry Falk




From lmfosse at ONLINE.NO  Mon Jan  5 20:25:55 2004
From: lmfosse at ONLINE.NO (Lars Martin Fosse)
Date: Mon, 05 Jan 04 21:25:55 +0100
Subject: SV: attack on Professor S. Bahulkar
In-Reply-To: <3FF9BF0C.1040204@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
Message-ID: <161227073667.23782.4628866219818599087.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

Harry Falk wrote:
>
> This incredible fashist incident would be easier to digest if
> some scholar from CASS or BORI would tell us that their
> alleged inactivity is a misunderstanding. Harry Falk
>

That might take more than usual courage. People who stand up to Hindutva
activists risk being beaten up severly and have their property smashed.
There is a limit to how courageous we should ask people to be when we're
sitting safe in Europe.

But the incident could perhaps relieve Western scholars of any bad
conscience they might harbour for Western acquisition of manuscripts.
When a country is in turmoil, the cultural heritage is always in grave
danger, as we have seen both in Afghanistan and in the former
Yugoslavia. Sometimes things are safer here than in their country of
origin.

Furthermore, the episode proves how important it is to photograph or
copy and distribute manuscript material as soon as possible. The
catastrophe at the Bhandarkar Research Institute could easily repeat
itself in several places. Manuscripts are threatened by a number of
hazards, not only vandalism. Let us hope that this episode teaches
greater caution and concern.

Best regards,

Lars Martin Fosse


From:
Dr.art. Lars Martin Fosse
Haugerudvn. 76, Leil. 114,
0674 Oslo - Norway
Phone: +47 22 32 12 19 Fax:  +47 850 21 250
Mobile phone: +47 90 91 91 45
E-mail: lmfosse at online.no
DO NOT OPEN UNEXPECTED ATTACHMENTS.
MY EMAIL ADDRESS IS BEING ABUSED BY
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From gruenen at MAIL.SUB.UNI-GOETTINGEN.DE  Tue Jan  6 08:31:43 2004
From: gruenen at MAIL.SUB.UNI-GOETTINGEN.DE (gruenendahl)
Date: Tue, 06 Jan 04 08:31:43 +0000
Subject: attack on Professor S. Bahulkar
In-Reply-To: <60D386B60521234BB917967801F3A30FF8F25A@lsa-m4.lsa.adsroot.itcs.umich.edu>
Message-ID: <161227073674.23782.11292046649799398965.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

Lars Martin Fosse wrote:

> There is a limit to how courageous we should ask people to be when we're
> sitting safe in Europe.

Leaving aside the implications Lars Martin Fosse's considerate view
may -or may not - have for the interpretation of other historic
events, an article in the Times Higher Education Supplement
(THES, 21.11.2003) shows that Europe (including the British Isles,
home of democracy and tolerance) is not exempted from these
deplorable developments.

The article by Alison Goddard entitled "Email threats and egg-
throwing sparks fears of Hindu extremism" (p. 52) reports that
"Wendy Doniger, professor of the history of religions at the
University of Chicago, was attacked while giving a lecture on Hindu
texts at the School of Oriental and African Studies last Wednesday
evening. She also said this week that an American colleague had
received threatening emails. Professor Doniger, whose publications
include a new translation of the Kama Sutra, was believed to have
been targeted for linking Hindu sacred texts and sex. During a bad-
tempered question-and-answer session after the talk, she was asked
whether, as a westerner, she was qualified to speak about the
subject. A message posted on a mailing-list website from a member
of the 200-strong audience states: "I was struck by the sexual thrust
of her paper on one our most sacred epics [Ramayana] ... What
would these clever 'learned' western people be doing for a living if
they did not have our shastras and traditions to nitpick and distort?
They would most probably be still locked in the missionary poisition,
sexually repressed, cantakerous, frigid and scratching for a living."
...Rachel Dwyer, senior lecturer in Indian studies at SOAS, also had
her question-and-answer session interrupted at a recent lecture."


It goes without saying that the real issue is not the views of James
W. Laine, S. Bahulkar, Wendy Doniger, Rachel Dwyer or anyone
else, which one may endorse or otherwise. What is at issue here is
the freedom to express and discuss them, which provides the basis
of academic exchange - indeed, the fabric of a democratic society.


Reinhold Gr?nendahl


P.S. There is a related entry to the THES diary on p. 15 of the same
isssue, entitled "Academia's full monty":
"Academia seems to have gone sex mad ... Last week, Wendy
Doniger ... had an egg thrown at her for linking Hinduism and sex.
Earlier this week, Olivia Judson of Imperial College London
delivered her lecture on the evolution of female promiscuity. And
next week Manchester University will launch a Centre for the Study
of Sexuality and Culture. It promises 'stimulating intellectual
exchange' including an opening address on the '20th-century
orgasm'."

********************************************************************

Dr. Reinhold Gruenendahl
Niedersaechsische Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek
Fachreferat sued- und suedostasiatische Philologien
(Dept. of Indology)

37070 G?ttingen, Germany
Tel (+49) (0)5 51 / 39 52 83
Fax (+49) (0)5 51 / 39 23 61
gruenen at mail.sub.uni-goettingen.de

FACH-INFORMATIONEN INDOLOGIE, GOETTINGEN:
http://www.sub.uni-goettingen.de/ebene_1/fiindolo/fiindolo.htm
In English:
http://www.sub.uni-goettingen.de/ebene_1/fiindolo/fiindole.htm

GRETIL - Goettingen Register of Electronic Texts in Indian
Languages
http://www.sub.uni-goettingen.de/ebene_1/fiindolo/gretil.htm




From j_e_m_houben at YAHOO.COM  Tue Jan  6 16:47:36 2004
From: j_e_m_houben at YAHOO.COM (Jan E.M. Houben)
Date: Tue, 06 Jan 04 08:47:36 -0800
Subject: attack on Professor S. Bahulkar
In-Reply-To: <3FFA726F.14460.5D1875@localhost>
Message-ID: <161227073691.23782.9298026832559317238.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

Dear Reinhold and Lars,
Europe is not, and, of course, was not, exempted
from comparable deplorable developments.
Interesting observations which perhaps express
some of the tensions and dilemmas underlying
current threats to "rational indology" I found in
Prasenjit Duara's recent article:
http://www.iias.nl/iiasn/32/genereal_news_duara.pdf
If the communication gap is crucial in the
contrasts and tensions between the old nations'
critiques of nationalism and the new nations'
promotion of ethnic/religious nationalisms, it is
all the more regretable that in Indological fora
like the present one the active participation
from Indian and India-based scholars is
practically nil.
Jan Houben

--- gruenendahl
<gruenen at MAIL.SUB.UNI-GOETTINGEN.DE> wrote:
> Lars Martin Fosse wrote:
>
> > There is a limit to how courageous we should
> ask people to be when we're
> > sitting safe in Europe.
>
> Leaving aside the implications Lars Martin
> Fosse's considerate view
> may -or may not - have for the interpretation
> of other historic
> events, an article in the Times Higher
> Education Supplement
> (THES, 21.11.2003) shows that Europe (including
> the British Isles,
> home of democracy and tolerance) is not
> exempted from these
> deplorable developments.



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From joseph.walser at TUFTS.EDU  Tue Jan  6 14:55:48 2004
From: joseph.walser at TUFTS.EDU (Joseph Walser)
Date: Tue, 06 Jan 04 09:55:48 -0500
Subject: Diaspora studies
In-Reply-To: <000001c3d460$bf5c9310$60d74382@Winston>
Message-ID: <161227073686.23782.8134026035864971273.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

It may be too early to talk about this, but the Religion Department and the
American Studies Department at Tufts University will be applying for a tenure
track line for an Asian Americanist with a specialization in religion. At this
point there is no specification in the proposal for South Asian vs. East Asian,
and we don't even know if it will be approved, but if it is, we should have
courses on the Asian diaspora in about two years.
Hope this helps.

Joseph Walser, Chair
Department of Comparative Religion
Tufts University
Medford, MA 02215
US

Quoting Lars Martin Fosse <lmfosse at ONLINE.NO>:

> Dear members of the list,
>
> On behalf of a colleague, I am looking for universities/departments that
> have courses and/or a curriculum on the Asian diaspora (particularly
> Hindus). Do any of you know of any such places?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Lars Martin Fosse
>
> From:
> Dr.art. Lars Martin Fosse
> Haugerudvn. 76, Leil. 114,
> 0674 Oslo - Norway
> Phone: +47 22 32 12 19 Fax:  +47 850 21 250
> Mobile phone: +47 90 91 91 45
> E-mail: lmfosse at online.no
> DO NOT OPEN UNEXPECTED ATTACHMENTS.
> MY EMAIL ADDRESS IS BEING ABUSED BY
> MALICIOUS OPERATORS.
>




From adheesh at SOCRATES.BERKELEY.EDU  Tue Jan  6 18:21:31 2004
From: adheesh at SOCRATES.BERKELEY.EDU (Adheesh Sathaye)
Date: Tue, 06 Jan 04 10:21:31 -0800
Subject: Bhandarkar Institute
Message-ID: <161227073696.23782.10386918727133195854.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

 Dear colleagues,

 Since I happen to be in Pune at the moment, staying with family and
 writing a dissertation, I have had the unfortunate opportunity to view
 the devastation and take part in today's cleanup efforts firsthand. I
 thought I might share my observations and experiences, with the caveat
 that I am not a reporter nor do I profess any sort of authority in
 assessing scenes of mob destruction. I simply feel that you might like
 to hear about what I experienced today.

 First, several of the incredibly brave and dedicated workers at BORI
 were beaten - though thankfully none requiring hospitalization or any
 medical treatment as such; the most severe seemed to be Thopate, who,
 due to his, *ahem*, "large" frame, was singled out by the mob. To my
 mind, a very brave effort on the part of the staff saved the printing
 press and the newly built computer building. Seeing the mob at work in
 the main building, some staff members locked these buildings from the
 inside and sat there while bricks were being thrown against the barred
 windows, weathering the 45 minute storm. None of the Secretaries or
 other Officers of BORI had yet arrived when the attack on the
 institution began, so they are all physically safe, though undoubteldy
 emotionally devastated. I feel such great sympathy for the likes of
 Professors Laddu and Mehendale, who have devoted their lives to this
 institute.

 I expect the loss of books and journals will be great - as many of you
 now, the books in the BORI library were not in the best of condition to
 begin with and many did not withstand the toppling of the institute's
 eighty-year-old massive bookshelves and the trampling and dancing upon
 to which they were subjected. At the very least, for the forseeable
 future I see the activities of the Institute as limited to largely to
 salvage operations.

 The main hall, (Tata Hall) was subjected to particularly heavy abuse:
 all of the shelves were pulled down, all of the windows and most of the
 furniture damaged or destroyed, and Bhandarkar's stately portrait was
 slashed (perhaps irreparably, but i am not sure.) The front office as
 well as the executive offices - Prof. Bhate, Dr. Bhalerao, Prof.
 Dadhphale and so on were also not spared and subjected to a great deal
 of physical damage - computers, the (in)famous copier, furniture,
 cabinets, anything made of glass, all were vandalized. The library, and
 particularly its entrance foyer was simply devastated - again, mainly
 the shelves were toppled, books and files torn and scattered, seemingly
 indiscriminately, the portaits of Sanskritists defaced, and the glass
 broken. THe Prakrit wing, from what I could see, experienced little damage.

 The manuscript division, which at least from my point of view holds the
 true treasures of BORI, was also pillaged, though from what I can tell,
 the vast majority of the manuscripts have not been subjected to severe
 damage. This, however, I urge, is simply my observation. The majority of
 the cabinets, though many had been toppled, had not been ransacked
 nearly to the degree as what I saw in Tata Hall or in the library. The
 cleanup operation did not move to the manuscript room today, and they
 understandably want to take their time in assessing the damage there,
 and to handle the manuscripts with caution, so I urge that my
 observations be taken as very preliminary.

 A meeting of the executive board was held today around noon, and Prof.
 Bhate, who is a family friend, was understandably busy fielding
 questions from media, politicians, dignitaries, and the like. As a
 result, I have not yet had a chance to speak with her and so I cannot
 describe what sorts of decisions have been made. But I can certainly
 vouch for the fact that no one at Bhandarkar saw this coming. The Jim
 Laine / Bahulkar issue had arisen over tea at the Institute on Friday,
 and while all felt it was deplorable and that the political climate has
 become very serious, there was not the slightest suggestion that
 anything of this magnitude might take place.

 While the committee members were engaged in meetings and interviews, the
 staff and a great, great number of volunteers - largely students,
 family, and neighbors (and myself) - engaged in an impressive and
 demanding 'rescue' operation. Many of the young guys who rallied
 together to hoist up the heavy wooden bookshelves did so tirelessly and
 surprisingly without argument. Indeed, the unspoken bond of people
 working together to right a wrong is hard to describe. A great number of
 people, armed with jhaaduus, surgical masks and rubber gloves, managed
 to sweep up most of the glass in the main building and the library, move
 all the books out of the toppled bookcases into stacks in the center of
 the room, clear out all of the destroyed furniture, and set the
 bookcases upright in Tata hall (and in much of the library). There is
 still a great deal of cleanup work to be done, particularly in the
 manuscript room, and of course the business of assing damage, repairing,
 replacing, and restoring the furniture, bookcases, and the books
 themselves will take months if not years.

 While the operations at Bhandarkar are focused on cleanup and recovery,
 I should emphasize that several scholars and individuals in Pune have
 been also physically threatened and have been given personal police
 protection. The situation is therefore still very serious here and in no
 way is the matter settled. However, the media coverage in Marathi of
 this issue has been massive, and I imagine it is something that the
 community will not easily be able to brush aside.

 I will be going to BORI again tomorrow to help in the cleanup and to see
 if i can speak with Prof. Bhate; within limits, if there are more
 specific details you would like to know or if there is anything you are
 curious about, please ask me and I will try to find out tomorrow.


> Adheesh Sathaye
> Ph.D. Candidate,
> Dept. of South and Southeast Asian Studies
> University of California, Berkeley
>




From jkirk at SPRO.NET  Tue Jan  6 18:22:34 2004
From: jkirk at SPRO.NET (jkirk)
Date: Tue, 06 Jan 04 11:22:34 -0700
Subject: Attack on Bhandarkar Institute
Message-ID: <161227073693.23782.12619756417442963726.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

This is just execrable. The BJP does nothing significant to curb the Shiv
Sena et al. and make them obey the law. Truly disgusting and also
terrifying. It can happen here.
Joanna Kirkpatrick
=========================

> A friend in Pune has sent me two photos of the destruction in the BORI
> reading rooms.  See
>         http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucgadkw/ANAsm.jpg
>




From acollins at GCI.NET  Tue Jan  6 20:23:53 2004
From: acollins at GCI.NET (Alfred Collins)
Date: Tue, 06 Jan 04 11:23:53 -0900
Subject: SV: attack on Professor S. Bahulkar
Message-ID: <161227073701.23782.14212747904120466720.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

Colleagues,

The issue is not only one of traditional societies being offended by science and rationalism.  Western (US as much as European) politics are filled with social and religious fundamentalism, and I think this has been true throughout the 20th century at least, Hitler being a prime example (his "volkisch"-ness, etc.).  People are seeking spiritual/religious values (and this includes nationalistic, "epic" ones) they feel to be absent in modern rationalist culture.  Hence the popularity of hobbits, angels, pentecostal religion in the American south and many developing countries, Ramraj, etc.  We must find a way to be "religious" without tearing down the fabric of science and civilization.  I am not optimistic in the short run. Over the longer course, all depends on whether the religious/idealizing attitude has genuine value or is merely an "illusion." This question was debated (for example) between the Enlightenment and Romanticism, and is at issue in William James and Jung vs. F
reud, etc. (See Eugene Taylor's books.)  Ultimately this is probably a neurophysiological question, or maybe one for physics.  In the meanwhile, our brave new world stumbles on and is likely to get much worse.

Al Collins
Anchorage




From ucgadkw at UCL.AC.UK  Tue Jan  6 11:45:20 2004
From: ucgadkw at UCL.AC.UK (Dominik Wujastyk)
Date: Tue, 06 Jan 04 11:45:20 +0000
Subject: Attack on Bhandarkar Institute
In-Reply-To: <60D386B60521234BB917967801F3A30F011D997E@lsa-m4.lsa.adsroot.itcs.umich.edu>
Message-ID: <161227073677.23782.12142623385460584031.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

A friend in Pune has sent me two photos of the destruction in the BORI
reading rooms.  See
        http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucgadkw/ANAsm.jpg

I have also made a link to this image from the "Members' queries and
information" part of the INDOLOGY website.


(If you find INDOLOGY's website address hard to remember, you can get to
it via

        http://indology.info

although you get a bit of advertising at the top of the screen.)

--
Email processed on Mondays and Thursdays.




From lmfosse at ONLINE.NO  Tue Jan  6 12:34:15 2004
From: lmfosse at ONLINE.NO (Lars Martin Fosse)
Date: Tue, 06 Jan 04 13:34:15 +0100
Subject: SV: attack on Professor S. Bahulkar
In-Reply-To: <3FFA726F.14460.5D1875@localhost>
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Reinhold Gr?nendahl wrote:

> Times Higher Education Supplement (THES, 21.11.2003) shows 
> that Europe (including the British Isles, home of democracy 
> and tolerance) is not exempted from these deplorable developments.
> 
> The article by Alison Goddard entitled "Email threats and 
> egg- throwing sparks fears of Hindu extremism" (p. 52) 
> reports that "Wendy Doniger, professor of the history of 
> religions at the University of Chicago, was attacked while 
> giving a lecture on Hindu texts at the School of Oriental and 
> African Studies last Wednesday evening... 

This development does not surprise me at all! I have expected this kind
of thing for a long time. Scholars have to consider the fact that
various "conservative" religious forces now actively target academia -
and not only Hindutvavadins. Scholars now have to give some thought to
how they are to handle threats, harassment, and possibly even
assassination attempts. (Letter bombs targeting Italian EU politicians
are popular in Europe right now, and why not send that sort of thing to
an academic you don't like?)

> It goes without saying that the real issue is not the views 
> of James W. Laine, S. Bahulkar, Wendy Doniger, Rachel Dwyer 
> or anyone else, which one may endorse or otherwise. What is 
> at issue here is the freedom to express and discuss them, 
> which provides the basis of academic exchange - indeed, the 
> fabric of a democratic society.

This is perfectly correct. But at the more immediate level, it is a
matter of personal security for scholars, who may have to come up with
solutions that enable them to work freely in a hostile and insecure
environment. There will not only be threats from the street, but
possibly also problems with political authorities who have to cater to
voters who may hold "anti-academic" views. I don't fear this problem for
Scandinavia, but it may become a real issue in other places. 

Best regards,

Lars Martin Fosse

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From silk at HUMNET.UCLA.EDU  Tue Jan  6 23:14:51 2004
From: silk at HUMNET.UCLA.EDU (Jonathan Silk)
Date: Tue, 06 Jan 04 15:14:51 -0800
Subject: SV: attack on Professor S. Bahulkar
In-Reply-To: <HLEGKKDFGLJBBKJBLEMCKEIECLAA.gthomgt@adelphia.net>
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George Thompson says:

>
>In these awful times, it is, in my opinion, no longer possible for a scholar
>to be apolitical.
>

No one is asking George or anyone else to be apolitical--just to
choose not to be political everywhere, or more precisely, to choose
certain places where we can all agree to restrain our politicalism
(or forebear to enter). I read the emails which come from Indology. I
don't trash them unread, and I don't want to begin doing that, or
drop out of the list, or encounter any of the problems that drove the
old Indology out of business. This desire to keep Indology as a forum
for exchanges of an apolitical, and if I might dare say even
atemporal, nature is not equivalent to sticking our collective heads
in the sand and pretending that we do not live in a political world,
and indeed one in which many of our (putatively!!) shared values are
under attack. To be sure, I'm not saying we should not post links to
information about the almost unbelievable attacks in Pune, only that
once that information is available, we do not have to follow up with
a descent (as I see it) into culture wars talk. It is easy enough to
set up a web site or what have you to continue such discussions
*elsewhere*.

iti samaaptam.
--
Jonathan Silk
Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures
Center for Buddhist Studies
UCLA
290 Royce Hall
Box 951540
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1540
phone: (310)206-8235
fax:  (310)825-8808
silk at humnet.ucla.edu




From lmfosse at ONLINE.NO  Tue Jan  6 14:23:32 2004
From: lmfosse at ONLINE.NO (Lars Martin Fosse)
Date: Tue, 06 Jan 04 15:23:32 +0100
Subject: Diaspora studies
Message-ID: <161227073683.23782.591228258425588703.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

Dear members of the list,

On behalf of a colleague, I am looking for universities/departments that
have courses and/or a curriculum on the Asian diaspora (particularly
Hindus). Do any of you know of any such places?

Best regards,

Lars Martin Fosse

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From j_e_m_houben at YAHOO.COM  Wed Jan  7 00:22:42 2004
From: j_e_m_houben at YAHOO.COM (Jan E.M. Houben)
Date: Tue, 06 Jan 04 16:22:42 -0800
Subject: Bhandarkar Institute
In-Reply-To: <200401061821.i06ILVPE005571@socrates.Berkeley.EDU>
Message-ID: <161227073711.23782.15761803425834583334.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

Thanks for the eyewitness acount.
On recent actions and statements of Pune
scholars:
"Bori secretary Saroja Bhate said that in view of
the vandalism by the ?Sambhaji Brigade?, the
state should make security arrangements
immediately at similar institutions"
(http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/408950.cms)
"Former Bori secretary M.G. Dhadphale remarked
that the institute had been destroyed, but it
would put together again. "While shouting the
name of Shivaji Maharaj, they tore books on
Shivaji, demolished the statue of goddess
Saraswati and made away with the idol of
Ganesh.""
(http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/407223.cms)
Marathi article in Sakal on collective
restoration work by sympathisants and students
from various institutions:
http://www.esakal.com/20040107/pune3.html

And then, inevitably, in the circles of
instigators and organisers of the ransack
(http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/407218.cms),
glorification of the violence:

MSS founder Purushottam Khedekar:
... justifying the rampage, he said the detained
activists were the real vanguards of Chhatrapati
Shivaji Maharaj. "The episode took place out of
sheer love for Shivaji," Khedekar justified.
Nanawate said they had received a tip-off a month
ago that the Bhandarkar institute had a huge
stock of the libellous books penned by James
Laine.
"However, unfortunately, we could not get a
single copy of the book from Bhandarkar
institute," Nanawate said.
"It has come to our knowledge that some passages
in Laine's book state that Shivaji's renowned
mentors, Samarth Ramdas Swami and Dadaji Kondeo,
are his biological fathers. This kind of brutish
penmanship raises questions about Jijamata's
morals as well. How can we tolerate such
blasphemy," Khedekar asked.
Condemning the action taken by the police against
the 72 detained MSS and Sambhaji Brigade
activists, Khedekar said there was nothing wrong
in what the activists had done.
"Sooner or later, we will manage to free them
from police custody," said Khedekar, who works as
an executive engineer with the public works
department.
Khedekar said they celebrated Shivaji Jayanti and
Mahatma Phule Jayanti every year. "However,
nobody wants to talk about our good work," he
said.

Jan Houben

--- Adheesh Sathaye
<adheesh at SOCRATES.BERKELEY.EDU> wrote:
>  Dear colleagues,
>
>  Since I happen to be in Pune at the moment,
> staying with family and
>  writing a dissertation, I have had the
> unfortunate opportunity to view
>  the devastation and take part in today's
> cleanup efforts firsthand. I
>  thought I might share my observations and
> experiences, with the caveat
>  that I am not a reporter nor do I profess any
> sort of authority in
>  assessing scenes of mob destruction. I simply
> feel that you might like
>  to hear about what I experienced today.
>
>

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From gthomgt at ADELPHIA.NET  Tue Jan  6 21:26:49 2004
From: gthomgt at ADELPHIA.NET (George Thompson)
Date: Tue, 06 Jan 04 16:26:49 -0500
Subject: SV: attack on Professor S. Bahulkar
In-Reply-To: <f740b0f72dcc.f72dccf740b0@gci.net>
Message-ID: <161227073705.23782.1860861792233220523.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

Dear List,

I myself don't really know about the role of neurophysiology or physics in
the attacks on Prof. Bahulkar and BORI, but I do agree with the point that
the issue isn't so much a matter of religion; it is a matter instead of
religious fundamentalism.  And of course we encounter it as much in the US
as anywhere.  So, it is not only a problem for traditional Asians and Middle
Easterners, or for that matter for early Christians, alone.  The latter-day
Christians who presently occupy the White House, the US Justice Dept., and
Iraq, also have a problem of this very sort.

Like Jan Houben, I think that it is regretable if this list and others like
it fail to inspire the participation of Indian scholars.  In my view, we
need to stand side by side with rational and compassionate scholars of all
sorts.  To be sure, the world needs many things from us, but as scholars at
the very least we are obliged to defend scholarship.  That is a crucial part
of our job.  I have never wanted to politicize the Indology List.  But how
can we carry on with our scholarly projects in the face of these sorts of
attacks?

When the attacks on Romila Thapar occurred we were asked not to discuss them
on this List.  That I think was a mistake.  Now that the attacks on Prof.
Bahulkar and BORI have occurred, maybe it is time, finally, to discuss them
on this list.

In these awful times, it is, in my opinion, no longer possible for a scholar
to be apolitical.

Don't you think so, too, Jan, Dominik, Madhav?

Best wishes,

George Thompson


-----Original Message-----
From: Indology [mailto:INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk]On Behalf Of Alfred
Collins
Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 3:24 PM
To: INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk
Subject: Re: SV: attack on Professor S. Bahulkar


Colleagues,

The issue is not only one of traditional societies being offended by science
and rationalism.  Western (US as much as European) politics are filled with
social and religious fundamentalism, and I think this has been true
throughout the 20th century at least, Hitler being a prime example (his
"volkisch"-ness, etc.).  People are seeking spiritual/religious values (and
this includes nationalistic, "epic" ones) they feel to be absent in modern
rationalist culture.  Hence the popularity of hobbits, angels, pentecostal
religion in the American south and many developing countries, Ramraj, etc.
We must find a way to be "religious" without tearing down the fabric of
science and civilization.  I am not optimistic in the short run. Over the
longer course, all depends on whether the religious/idealizing attitude has
genuine value or is merely an "illusion." This question was debated (for
example) between the Enlightenment and Romanticism, and is at issue in
William James and Jung vs. F
reud, etc. (See Eugene Taylor's books.)  Ultimately this is probably a
neurophysiological question, or maybe one for physics.  In the meanwhile,
our brave new world stumbles on and is likely to get much worse.

Al Collins
Anchorage




From gthomgt at ADELPHIA.NET  Wed Jan  7 01:14:38 2004
From: gthomgt at ADELPHIA.NET (George Thompson)
Date: Tue, 06 Jan 04 20:14:38 -0500
Subject: SV: attack on Professor S. Bahulkar
In-Reply-To: <p06002019bc20efbde8be@[169.232.228.30]>
Message-ID: <161227073713.23782.16875644352900375479.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

Jonathan,

The thing that destroyed the old Indology List wasn't my 'politicalism.'  It
was the presence among us of people who wished vehemently to do what was
just now done to Prof. Bahulkar and to BORI.  Far be it from me to pull your
head out of the sand.

iti vaa iti me manah.

George



-----Original Message-----
From: Indology [mailto:INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk]On Behalf Of Jonathan
Silk
Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 6:15 PM
To: INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk
Subject: Re: SV: attack on Professor S. Bahulkar


George Thompson says:

>
>In these awful times, it is, in my opinion, no longer possible for a
scholar
>to be apolitical.
>

No one is asking George or anyone else to be apolitical--just to
choose not to be political everywhere, or more precisely, to choose
certain places where we can all agree to restrain our politicalism
(or forebear to enter). I read the emails which come from Indology. I
don't trash them unread, and I don't want to begin doing that, or
drop out of the list, or encounter any of the problems that drove the
old Indology out of business. This desire to keep Indology as a forum
for exchanges of an apolitical, and if I might dare say even
atemporal, nature is not equivalent to sticking our collective heads
in the sand and pretending that we do not live in a political world,
and indeed one in which many of our (putatively!!) shared values are
under attack. To be sure, I'm not saying we should not post links to
information about the almost unbelievable attacks in Pune, only that
once that information is available, we do not have to follow up with
a descent (as I see it) into culture wars talk. It is easy enough to
set up a web site or what have you to continue such discussions
*elsewhere*.

iti samaaptam.
--
Jonathan Silk
Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures
Center for Buddhist Studies
UCLA
290 Royce Hall
Box 951540
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1540
phone: (310)206-8235
fax:  (310)825-8808
silk at humnet.ucla.edu




From lmfosse at ONLINE.NO  Tue Jan  6 19:34:23 2004
From: lmfosse at ONLINE.NO (Lars Martin Fosse)
Date: Tue, 06 Jan 04 20:34:23 +0100
Subject: SV: attack on Professor S. Bahulkar
In-Reply-To: <20040106164736.62757.qmail@web40807.mail.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <161227073699.23782.582826465096521633.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

Dear Jan,

> Europe is not, and, of course, was not, exempted
> from comparable deplorable developments....

This is certainly true, and that is why it is so frustrating that we
seem to have to go through this once more ... It's a bit like getting
measles for a second time in your old age.

Duara's article is interesting, but I believe he only touches on an
aspect of the problem. In a deeper sense, this is also very much about
religion, a sense of identity, a complex of inferiority (producing
overcompensation through exaggerated notions of former glory) and fear
of a shattered notional cosmos.

Traditional Asian and Middle Eastern ideas about the world are in
trouble when confronted with the cool, rational and irreverent attitude
of modern science and scholarship. (E.g.: Read Pervez Hoodbhoy's book on
Islam and science, and you will see how difficult it is to reconcile
Islam and science in a comfortable manner). Like Christians earlier,
many traditional Asians and Middle Easterners feel threatened by modern
knowledge, and they react in self-defense. This is not so strange, it is
to be expected. The problem is: what do we do about it? I have been
involved in several discussions about Western Indology and the
"negative" picture it allegedly paints of India - apparently Indologists
and journalists are put in the same drawer and the ones made to pay for
the sins of the others.

If we want to keep our independence, I am afraid that there's is little
we can do. Our job is to give a realistic, rational account of South
Asian matters that make sense to educated people in our own countries,
using the methods and approaches that are normally used in academic
life. But by doing so, we cannot avoid giving offense to many people in
Asia and the Middle East. I would really like to know if any of you see
a way out of this dilemma.

> it is
> all the more regretable that in Indological fora
> like the present one the active participation
> from Indian and India-based scholars is
> practically nil.

Yes, it is. But I am not sure that such participation would make much of
a difference as far as mutual understanding is concerned. I believe both
sides know very well how the other side thinks. What we have, is an
ideological war, and compromises are probably far between.

Best regards,

Lars Martin

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From athr at LOC.GOV  Wed Jan  7 01:38:34 2004
From: athr at LOC.GOV (Allen W Thrasher)
Date: Tue, 06 Jan 04 20:38:34 -0500
Subject: Diaspora studies
Message-ID: <161227073716.23782.7520896498540930368.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

Lars,

You might look at the page on the South Asian Diaspora at Berkeley
(<http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/SSEAL/SouthAsia/diaspora.html> ).  But
I don't see on a quick examination that it lists the universities that
profess a special interest in the subject, nor a curriculum or courses
or a major or sub-major.  A Google search on "South Asian diaspora
program" or "SAd  Studies" picks up York University and some other
universities (all in North America it appears on first glance) that
mention the diaspora on the homepages of their South Asia programs.

Off the Berkeley page I find there is a Center for the Study of the
Indian Diaspora at Hyderabad:

Name: Bhat, Prof. C.
Organization: Centre for the Study of Indian Diaspora
Address: School of Social Sciences,University of Hyderabad
Hyderabad, 500046
Phone: 91-040-3010500 Fax: 91-040-3010120
E-mail: csadss at uohyd.ernet.in

Especially since Hyderabad has or used to have an American Studies
Centre formerly funded by the PL480/United States India Fund foreign aid
repayment rupees, it would not be surprising if Prof. Bhat has good
American contacts and is au courant on what is being done on diaspora
studies here.

The Dept. of Anthropology and Sociology of SOAS offers a major in
Migration and Diaspora Studies: <
http://www.soas.ac.uk/studying/courseinfo.cfm?courseinfoid=146%3Cbr%3E
>.

It's definitely a growth field in North America, to judge from the
number of papers and panels at conferences, but as I say I haven't found
any place where information on the programs is assembled.

Hope this helps,

Allen


Allen W. Thrasher, Ph.D.
Senior Reference Librarian
Southern Asia Section
Asian Division
Library of Congress
Jefferson Building 150
101 Independence Ave., S.E.
Washington, DC 20540-4810
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The opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the Library
of Congress.

>>> lmfosse at ONLINE.NO 01/06/04 09:23AM >>>
Dear members of the list,

On behalf of a colleague, I am looking for universities/departments
that
have courses and/or a curriculum on the Asian diaspora (particularly
Hindus). Do any of you know of any such places?

Best regards,

Lars Martin Fosse

From:
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Haugerudvn. 76, Leil. 114,
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From athr at LOC.GOV  Wed Jan  7 01:46:34 2004
From: athr at LOC.GOV (Allen W Thrasher)
Date: Tue, 06 Jan 04 20:46:34 -0500
Subject: PS on:  Diaspora studies
Message-ID: <161227073718.23782.2380569318744866205.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

Lars,

If you search on the keyword Diaspora on David Magier's International
Directory of South Asian Scholars
<http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/southasia/cuvl/directory.html>
on his SARAI site you will find 30 scholars interested in some sort of
diaspora.

Allen

Allen W. Thrasher, Ph.D.
Senior Reference Librarian
Southern Asia Section
Asian Division
Library of Congress
Jefferson Building 150
101 Independence Ave., S.E.
Washington, DC 20540-4810
tel. 202-707-3732
fax 202-707-1724
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The opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the Library
of Congress.




From ghart at SOCRATES.BERKELEY.EDU  Wed Jan  7 04:48:17 2004
From: ghart at SOCRATES.BERKELEY.EDU (George Hart)
Date: Tue, 06 Jan 04 20:48:17 -0800
Subject: SV: attack on Professor S. Bahulkar
In-Reply-To: <p06002019bc20efbde8be@[169.232.228.30]>
Message-ID: <161227073721.23782.1948577463459923052.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

The first pages of James Laine's book on Shivaji are at

http://www.us.oup.com/pdf/0195141261_index.pdf

 From this too short excerpt, it seems to me that the book is
first-rate.  It appears to be a book that treats India, its history
and culture, with respect, sympathy and dignity -- there is not a
trace of condescension.  And it covers subjects that are extremely
important for understanding modern India and its development.   G.
Hart




From swantam at ASIANETINDIA.COM  Tue Jan  6 16:26:30 2004
From: swantam at ASIANETINDIA.COM (Maheswaran Nair)
Date: Tue, 06 Jan 04 21:26:30 +0500
Subject: Disgusting Shiv Sena attack on Professor S. Bahulkar
Message-ID: <161227073688.23782.8266940159727079882.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

The "Sabhaji Brigade" attack on Professor S. Bahulkar and Bhandarkar Oriental Institute, Pune has to be viewed very seriously. It may be noted in this connection that this incident has taken place at a moment when the Govt. of India has launched its multicrore National Manuscripts Mission project.I doubt that the Sangh Pariwar and its allies have some hidden agenda of destroying existing old precious manuscripts and cooking up new ones so as to put new claims like that of "Vedic Saraswati."
K.Maheswaran Nair
University of Kerala
Trivandrum

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jan E.M. Houben" <j_e_m_houben at YAHOO.COM>
Date: Monday, January 5, 2004 9:52 pm
Subject: Disgusting Shiv Sena attack on Professor S. Bahulkar

> Shiv Sena attack on Professor S. Bahulkar,
> disgusted G. Mehendale suspends publication of
> Shivaji biography till after his death:
>
> http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/385626.cms
>
> http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/385627.cms
>
>
>
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From silk at HUMNET.UCLA.EDU  Wed Jan  7 16:19:18 2004
From: silk at HUMNET.UCLA.EDU (Jonathan Silk)
Date: Wed, 07 Jan 04 08:19:18 -0800
Subject: Nepalese ms destruction
In-Reply-To: <p06010200bc21d5348be2@[128.146.41.35]>
Message-ID: <161227073731.23782.17349607028011009583.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

>, the
>burning of the Sanskrit college in Nepal with its estimated 12,000
>uncataloged manuscripts,


What?!

With fear and trepedation: details please!

PS: briefly: my note was not intended as a request for less such
information, but only directed against (my perceived) widening of the
discussion into one of general cultural trends, and the consequent
redirection of the discussion away from Indology and Indological
matters.
--
Jonathan Silk
Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures
Center for Buddhist Studies
UCLA
290 Royce Hall
Box 951540
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1540
phone: (310)206-8235
fax:  (310)825-8808
silk at humnet.ucla.edu




From mkapstei at MIDWAY.UCHICAGO.EDU  Wed Jan  7 15:04:32 2004
From: mkapstei at MIDWAY.UCHICAGO.EDU (Matthew Kapstein)
Date: Wed, 07 Jan 04 09:04:32 -0600
Subject: politics on Indology
In-Reply-To: <HLEGKKDFGLJBBKJBLEMCOEIGCLAA.gthomgt@adelphia.net>
Message-ID: <161227073726.23782.4103149922599552844.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

I am in general agreement with the view that Indology
should not be used to air political opinions and
expressions of outrage. However, the intimidation
of Indological scholars and the destruction of resources does
directly impact upon the conditions for work in
our discipline, so that it seems entirely appropriate that
information concerning such matters should be distributed
via Indology. Moreover, information regarding appropriate
means of protest and the representation of the views of
scholars in the field should I think also be distributed
in this way. (I'm thinking, for instance, of messages
providing names and addresses
of persons to whom letters of protest or support, as the
case may be, should be addressed.) Though it's not always
clear just where to draw the line, the distribution
of concrete information bearing directly upon the health of our field
should be permitted and encouraged on the Indology list.

Matthew Kapstein
Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris
The University of Chicago




From navadipanyaya at HOTMAIL.COM  Wed Jan  7 09:57:18 2004
From: navadipanyaya at HOTMAIL.COM (jagan nadh)
Date: Wed, 07 Jan 04 09:57:18 +0000
Subject: Disgusting Shiv Sena attack on Professor S. Bahulkar
Message-ID: <161227073723.23782.5748726536206313938.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

Dear collegues
       I have the sme openion that expressed by Dr.K.maheswaran nair in the
case The "Sabhaji Brigade" attack on Professor S. Bahulkar and Bhandarkar
Oriental Institute, Pune .

      The indologists have to express their strong protest on the issue
through media too.


Jaganadh.G/University of kerala

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From adheesh at SOCRATES.BERKELEY.EDU  Wed Jan  7 18:26:12 2004
From: adheesh at SOCRATES.BERKELEY.EDU (Adheesh Sathaye)
Date: Wed, 07 Jan 04 10:26:12 -0800
Subject: BORI update
Message-ID: <161227073736.23782.10846490449699632841.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

 Dear Colleagues,

 First of all, my sincere thanks to those who responded with support to the initial
 post. unless there are objections, whenever there is something that I
 feel is worth your attention, I will post my account for the week or so
 that I am here in Pune.

 A number of scholars have expressed a desire to set up a type of
 relief-fund in the U.S. for BORI. Indeed, I had a chance to speak with
 Prof. Bhate briefly about this issue today, and I also relayed to her
 the shock and sympathies that have been expressed on-line worldwide.
 Expressing her gratitude to the academic community on behalf of BORI,
 she informed me that a move is in fact under way to set up an account
 with HDFC Bank here in India which may also accept international
 currencies. If anyone has concrete ideas as to the logistics of setting
 up a single fund in the U.S. that may then be transferred to BORI, it
 may be a valuable enterprise. Otherwise, we might simply be able to do
 what has been happening here, which is to individually send checks made
 out to Secretary, BORI, to their address: B.O.R.I., Pune 411 004.

 The media coverage here, as you must be gathering, has been very
 intense, and Professors Bhate and Bahulkar have been constantly asked
 for interviews. Again, I should emphasize that the Marathi-language
 newspapers and television stations have practically unanimously made
 this their lead story in Pune for two days, and this matter is something
 that ordinary citizens here are taking very seriously. I am sure that
 most of you will be able to follow official developments via legitimate
 news sources so I will skip the details of the damage estimates, the
 police case, the dignitary visits and focus again on the cleanup.

 Efforts were in full force today, and all of the massive bookcases,
 cabinets, and furniture that was not destroyed were set upright. Most of
 the student volunteers - and there were indeed many eager and active
 teams of college kids from all over Pune showing up for duty throughout
 the day - were working in the library, uprighting the metal and wooden
 bookshelves, stacking up books, and cleaning out glass, bricks, and so
 forth. A number of the staff focused their attention in the manuscript
 rooms, uprighting the massive cabinets that had been knocked over like
 dominoes.

 The manuscripts, I am happy to say, were treated with care during the
 cleanup, and, as I had initially reported yesterday, it may be of
 comfort to note that at least the ones that passed through my hands and
 before my eyes during the cleanup were still wrapped in cloth and in one
 piece, with no obvious signs of damage. Being tossed around and crushed
 under cabinets was surely not beneficial to their health, but as far as
 I can tell, the vast majority of manuscripts have not been torn or thrashed to
 any severe extent. I suspect that aside from the fact that they were
 locked, the weight of the cabinets in fact might have been what spared
 many manuscripts from vandalism - the cabinets, once they had been
 toppled over onto each other, simply didn't allow the vandals to get at
 their contents.

 And so, to our surprise, the major, labor-intensive tasks of cleanup -
 stacking books and manuscripts, uprighting bookshelves, cleaning out
 glass and debris - were finished by about four in the afternoon, and we
 simply couldn't think of what else to do. some students even took to
 cleaning up trash in the courtyard and raking up leaves. Tomorrow the
 staff will commence the more meticulous, long-term work of recataloging
 the manuscripts, reorganizing the library, fixing broken shelves and
 furniture, and figuring out what to do with the main (Tata) hall.

 After an afternoon of being probably more in the way than actually
 helping the staff members working in the manuscript room, I spent a good
 bit of time talking with them in the 'other' tea room at BORI. The
 staffers here are indeed earnest, loyal, and have done a great deal of
 the more difficult cleanup work without any extra pay, without rest, and
 without bickering. Many of them live on the premises, and have worked
 here for more than a generation, so indeed for them this was an attack
 on their home, as well as for a few of them, on their bodies. (Thopate's
 belly is still sore!) Please be sure to thank them the next time you are
 here.


 Adheesh Sathaye
 Ph. D. Candidate
 Dept. of South and Southeast Asian Studies
 University of California, Berkeley




From huntington.2 at OSU.EDU  Wed Jan  7 15:41:14 2004
From: huntington.2 at OSU.EDU (John Huntington)
Date: Wed, 07 Jan 04 10:41:14 -0500
Subject: politics on Indology
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0401070853520.26748-100000@harper.uchicago.edu>
Message-ID: <161227073728.23782.13925053337803369496.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

Matt Kapstein has raised a very interesting point

>I am in general agreement with the view that Indology
>should not be used to air political opinions and
>expressions of outrage. However, the intimidation
>of Indological scholars and the destruction of resources does
>directly impact upon the conditions for work in
>our discipline, so that it seems entirely appropriate that
>information concerning such matters should be distributed
>via Indology. Moreover, information regarding appropriate
>means of protest and the representation of the views of
>scholars in the field should I think also be distributed
>in this way. (I'm thinking, for instance, of messages
>providing names and addresses
>of persons to whom letters of protest or support, as the
>case may be, should be addressed.) Though it's not always
>clear just where to draw the line, the distribution
>of concrete information bearing directly upon the health of our field
>should be permitted and encouraged on the Indology list.
>
>Matthew Kapstein
>Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris
>The University of Chicago


In these "interesting times" with the wholesale destruction of
Buddhist art in Afghanistan (including the Bamiyan Buddhas), the
burning of the Sanskrit college in Nepal with its estimated 12,000
uncataloged manuscripts, the looting and destruction in Iraq, and now
attacks on members of the Indology community directly it is clear
that we are in a situation that requires information and for better
or worse, opinions about it. It is therefore my suggestion that any
factual information, accounts by witnesses, and even opinions should
be encouraged.  An over awareness of these alarming events and
movements would be much better than walking into a situation
blissfully unaware.

Susan and I were  bombed once in Calcutta by the Naxalites and we did
not enjoy a single moment of it.

Peace

John C. Huntington


--
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    (Buddhist Art and Methodologies)
Department of the History of Art
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The Ohio state University
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From sseas at SOCRATES.BERKELEY.EDU  Wed Jan  7 18:41:56 2004
From: sseas at SOCRATES.BERKELEY.EDU (Robert Goldman)
Date: Wed, 07 Jan 04 10:41:56 -0800
Subject: BORI update
In-Reply-To: <200401071826.i07IQC4R028926@socrates.Berkeley.EDU>
Message-ID: <161227073739.23782.14263914641793160657.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

>Adheesh,


Thanks for the updates. I was a bit cheered by your news that the
damage may not have been as severe as was first feared and by your
report on how the local youth is pitching in. . An open letter on
this will be going out on Indology for people to sign.

Please do convey my concern and support to Drs. Bhate, Laddu,
Mehendale, Dhamdhere etc. etc. They have been much in our thoughts
the past few days

>  Dear Colleagues,
>
>  First of all, my sincere thanks to those who responded with support
>to the initial
>  post. unless there are objections, whenever there is something that I
>  feel is worth your attention, I will post my account for the week or so
>  that I am here in Pune.
>
>  A number of scholars have expressed a desire to set up a type of
>  relief-fund in the U.S. for BORI. Indeed, I had a chance to speak with
>  Prof. Bhate briefly about this issue today, and I also relayed to her
>  the shock and sympathies that have been expressed on-line worldwide.
>  Expressing her gratitude to the academic community on behalf of BORI,
>  she informed me that a move is in fact under way to set up an account
>  with HDFC Bank here in India which may also accept international
>  currencies. If anyone has concrete ideas as to the logistics of setting
>  up a single fund in the U.S. that may then be transferred to BORI, it
>  may be a valuable enterprise. Otherwise, we might simply be able to do
>  what has been happening here, which is to individually send checks made
>  out to Secretary, BORI, to their address: B.O.R.I., Pune 411 004.
>
>  The media coverage here, as you must be gathering, has been very
>  intense, and Professors Bhate and Bahulkar have been constantly asked
>  for interviews. Again, I should emphasize that the Marathi-language
>  newspapers and television stations have practically unanimously made
>  this their lead story in Pune for two days, and this matter is something
>  that ordinary citizens here are taking very seriously. I am sure that
>  most of you will be able to follow official developments via legitimate
>  news sources so I will skip the details of the damage estimates, the
>  police case, the dignitary visits and focus again on the cleanup.
>
>  Efforts were in full force today, and all of the massive bookcases,
>  cabinets, and furniture that was not destroyed were set upright. Most of
>  the student volunteers - and there were indeed many eager and active
>  teams of college kids from all over Pune showing up for duty throughout
>  the day - were working in the library, uprighting the metal and wooden
>  bookshelves, stacking up books, and cleaning out glass, bricks, and so
>  forth. A number of the staff focused their attention in the manuscript
>  rooms, uprighting the massive cabinets that had been knocked over like
>  dominoes.
>
>  The manuscripts, I am happy to say, were treated with care during the
>  cleanup, and, as I had initially reported yesterday, it may be of
>  comfort to note that at least the ones that passed through my hands and
>  before my eyes during the cleanup were still wrapped in cloth and in one
>  piece, with no obvious signs of damage. Being tossed around and crushed
>  under cabinets was surely not beneficial to their health, but as far as
>  I can tell, the vast majority of manuscripts have not been torn or
>thrashed to
>  any severe extent. I suspect that aside from the fact that they were
>  locked, the weight of the cabinets in fact might have been what spared
>  many manuscripts from vandalism - the cabinets, once they had been
>  toppled over onto each other, simply didn't allow the vandals to get at
>  their contents.
>
>  And so, to our surprise, the major, labor-intensive tasks of cleanup -
>  stacking books and manuscripts, uprighting bookshelves, cleaning out
>  glass and debris - were finished by about four in the afternoon, and we
>  simply couldn't think of what else to do. some students even took to
>  cleaning up trash in the courtyard and raking up leaves. Tomorrow the
>  staff will commence the more meticulous, long-term work of recataloging
>  the manuscripts, reorganizing the library, fixing broken shelves and
>  furniture, and figuring out what to do with the main (Tata) hall.
>
>  After an afternoon of being probably more in the way than actually
>  helping the staff members working in the manuscript room, I spent a good
>  bit of time talking with them in the 'other' tea room at BORI. The
>  staffers here are indeed earnest, loyal, and have done a great deal of
>  the more difficult cleanup work without any extra pay, without rest, and
>  without bickering. Many of them live on the premises, and have worked
>  here for more than a generation, so indeed for them this was an attack
>  on their home, as well as for a few of them, on their bodies. (Thopate's
>  belly is still sore!) Please be sure to thank them the next time you are
>  here.
>
>
>  Adheesh Sathaye
>  Ph. D. Candidate
>  Dept. of South and Southeast Asian Studies
>  University of California, Berkeley


--
Dr. R. P.  Goldman
Professor of Sanskrit
Department of  South and Southeast Asian Studies
7303 Dwinelle Hall MC #2540
University of California at Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-2540
email: sseas at socrates.berkeley.edu
Phone: (510) 642-4089
Fax:     (510) 642.2409




From huntington.2 at OSU.EDU  Wed Jan  7 18:21:27 2004
From: huntington.2 at OSU.EDU (John Huntington)
Date: Wed, 07 Jan 04 13:21:27 -0500
Subject: Nepalese ms destruction
In-Reply-To: <p06002023bc21e15343b9@[169.232.228.30]>
Message-ID: <161227073735.23782.1009591571761732980.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

Dear Jonathan and others,

About eighteen  months months ago, in Dang, a  "mid-western" Nepalese
city about  160 km from the Indian border,  The "Maoists" burned  the
western branch of the Sanskrit University to the ground. It contained
an estimated 12,000 Sanskrit manuscripts, and they refused to let any
one go near to try to save it. In context, I have to suspect the act
as very anti-traditionalist, although it is very hard to know the
motives for some of the actions of the "Maoists." Because it was so
far form Kathmandu, very little was reported at the time and I have
heard nothing sense.

For me it was personally very devastating. The Bamiyan destruction
had taken place several months before and for several months I had
gone through being interviewed over and over about the great Buddhas
which I had loved dearly. Dina (Bangdel) and I were in the middle of
the Circle of Bliss catalog reconstructing and learning to  interpret
Newar Buddhism from Newar Sanskrit manuscripts.  and Dina came in one
morning saying, "You'll never guess what happened."  We tried to find
out as much more as we could but the few news reports and the fact
that no one was killed led the destruction to be pretty much a
non-event in the international news.

Simply enough, from the past ten years in Newar Buddhist studies,
and proven once again by our recent work with the Newar priests who
came to the "Nepal at LACMA" events, I know that there are
"one-of-a-kind" manuscripts of which no one knows of another copy.
How many such "one-of-a-kind" mss were in this Sanskrit University
can never be known.

What we need is a door-to-door survey of Vajracharya priests' and
Shakyas' personal collections throughout the KV and a similar one for
Hindu materials which I am personally far less familiar with.

Sorry to be the bearer of such bad news if you didn't already know

John (and Dina)


>>, the
>>burning of the Sanskrit college in Nepal with its estimated 12,000
>>uncataloged manuscripts,
>
>
>What?!
>
>With fear and trepedation: details please!
>
>PS: briefly: my note was not intended as a request for less such
>information, but only directed against (my perceived) widening of the
>discussion into one of general cultural trends, and the consequent
>redirection of the discussion away from Indology and Indological
>matters.
>--
>Jonathan Silk
>Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures
>Center for Buddhist Studies
>UCLA
>290 Royce Hall
>Box 951540
>Los Angeles, CA 90095-1540
>phone: (310)206-8235
>fax:  (310)825-8808
>silk at humnet.ucla.edu




From silk at HUMNET.UCLA.EDU  Wed Jan  7 22:52:26 2004
From: silk at HUMNET.UCLA.EDU (Jonathan Silk)
Date: Wed, 07 Jan 04 14:52:26 -0800
Subject: Nepalese ms destruction
In-Reply-To: <v04011701bc22090ed131@[10.0.1.49]>
Message-ID: <161227073743.23782.2447119653481615699.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

A question:

>J. Huntingdon wrote:
>
>>About eighteen  months months ago, in Dang ...  The "Maoists" burned  the
>>western branch of the Sanskrit University to the ground. It contained
>>an estimated 12,000 Sanskrit manuscripts, ....


And Michael wrote:

>
>Are you SURE about the mss?  The newpaper at the time (see below)  spoke
>only of printed  books, and a friend whom I asked mentioned only, if I
>recall correctly,  "office materials, files" not mss.  I also  doubt that
>they would have collected 12,000 or even 50,000 mss. in just 14 years...

Michael is the idea person to answer the following: if there were Skt
MSS in this University, would not we expect that they had been
photographed by the NGMPP? (Not that this would make the destruction
of the mss any more palatable, of course).

JAS

--
Jonathan Silk
Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures
Center for Buddhist Studies
UCLA
290 Royce Hall
Box 951540
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1540
phone: (310)206-8235
fax:  (310)825-8808
silk at humnet.ucla.edu




From witzel at FAS.HARVARD.EDU  Wed Jan  7 19:55:20 2004
From: witzel at FAS.HARVARD.EDU (Mi. Witzel)
Date: Wed, 07 Jan 04 14:55:20 -0500
Subject: Nepalese ms destruction
In-Reply-To: <p06010201bc21f76d916c@[128.146.41.35]>
Message-ID: <161227073741.23782.18291086318019085500.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

J. Huntingdon wrote:

>About eighteen  months months ago, in Dang ...  The "Maoists" burned  the
>western branch of the Sanskrit University to the ground. It contained
>an estimated 12,000 Sanskrit manuscripts, ....

Are you SURE about the mss?  The newpaper at the time (see below)  spoke
only of printed  books, and a friend whom I asked mentioned only, if I
recall correctly,  "office materials, files" not mss.  I also  doubt that
they would have collected 12,000 or even 50,000 mss. in just 14 years...

The destruction was bad enough, but perhaps not a serious as mentioned...

MW
------------
The news (nepalnews.com, etc.) had this: 5/13/2002:

Rebels set ablaze Mahendra Sanskrit University

By K P Ghimire

KATHMANDU, May 12 Maoist rebels on Saturday night set
ablaze offices of the country's only Sanskrit University - Mahendra
Sanskrit University-in Beljhundi of Dang district, reducing estimated
property worth Rs. 27.5 million to a cinder.

The university is located about 15 kilometres west of Ghorahi, the
district headquarters of Dang. But nobody was hurt in the incident,
university officials said.

Around 200 rebels, most of whom were women, surrounded the
university's premises and torched most of the offices which include
Administration
Office, Office of the Controller of Examinations and offices of
Vice-chancellor, Registrar and Rector.

Following the arson of the university complex, around 50,000 ancient
Sanskrit textbooks, including Kalchakra Ambika have been completely
reduced to ashes.

Talking over telephone, Chudamani Adhikari, administrative officer of
the university, told The Kathmandu Post that the rebels doused the
offices with kerosene and set them on fire. All the furniture and
records of students for the last 14 years were destroyed, said
eyewitnesses. The rebels snatched keys of the offices from security
guards and ravaged the university property, Adhikari said, adding that
the students of All Nepal Independent Students' Union-Revolutionary
(ANISU-Revolutionary) were largely responsible for the attack.

The rebels had also blocked the road leading toward the university in
a bid to prevent the security forces from reaching there. It was just
last year that the rebels exploded a powerful crude bomb in the office
of the Vice-chancellor, Purna Chandra Dhungel, who usually stays in
Kathmandu.

NB : about half a year later, the  Govt. abolished compulsory Skt. in this
multi-ethnic/ling. country:

 KATHMANDU, DEC 7 (AP)

Nepal has ordered its schools to drop compulsory Sanskrit lessons, but
denies it's caved into demands by Maoist rebels who say the language is
foreign to  the Himalayan kingdom....
...  Sanskrit had not been taught at the infant school level and would now
no longer be compulsory for primary students either.
... arrangement will be  made to carry out primary level education in
mother-tongue languages in areas where it is feasible and education up to
secondary level will be free for women, Dalit and the oppressed and
backward communities like Thami, Raute, Chepang and Hayu.

For the general sentioment cf also teh newsmagazine NEPALI TIMES:
http://www.nepalnews.com.np/ntimes/issue153/stateofthestate.ht
============================================================
Michael Witzel
Department of Sanskrit & Indian Studies, Harvard University
1 Bow Street, Cambridge MA 02138, USA

ph. 1- 617-496 2990 (also messages)
home page:  http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~witzel/mwpage.htm




From rsalomon at U.WASHINGTON.EDU  Thu Jan  8 01:05:48 2004
From: rsalomon at U.WASHINGTON.EDU (Richard Salomon)
Date: Wed, 07 Jan 04 17:05:48 -0800
Subject: Bhandarkar Institute
Message-ID: <161227073745.23782.6093569724672780354.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

Thanks to Adheesh Sathaye for showing us that there are heroes as well as
villains in this story.

Richard Salomon

----- Original Message -----
From: "Adheesh Sathaye" <adheesh at SOCRATES.BERKELEY.EDU>
To: <INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk>
Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 10:21 AM
Subject: Bhandarkar Institute


> Dear colleagues,
>
>  Since I happen to be in Pune at the moment, staying with family and
>  writing a dissertation, I have had the unfortunate opportunity to view
>  the devastation and take part in today's cleanup efforts firsthand. I
>  thought I might share my observations and experiences, with the caveat
>  that I am not a reporter nor do I profess any sort of authority in
>  assessing scenes of mob destruction. I simply feel that you might like
>  to hear about what I experienced today.
>
>  First, several of the incredibly brave and dedicated workers at BORI
>  were beaten - though thankfully none requiring hospitalization or any
>  medical treatment as such; the most severe seemed to be Thopate, who,
>  due to his, *ahem*, "large" frame, was singled out by the mob. To my
>  mind, a very brave effort on the part of the staff saved the printing
>  press and the newly built computer building. Seeing the mob at work in
>  the main building, some staff members locked these buildings from the
>  inside and sat there while bricks were being thrown against the barred
>  windows, weathering the 45 minute storm. None of the Secretaries or
>  other Officers of BORI had yet arrived when the attack on the
>  institution began, so they are all physically safe, though undoubteldy
>  emotionally devastated. I feel such great sympathy for the likes of
>  Professors Laddu and Mehendale, who have devoted their lives to this
>  institute.
>
>  I expect the loss of books and journals will be great - as many of you
>  now, the books in the BORI library were not in the best of condition to
>  begin with and many did not withstand the toppling of the institute's
>  eighty-year-old massive bookshelves and the trampling and dancing upon
>  to which they were subjected. At the very least, for the forseeable
>  future I see the activities of the Institute as limited to largely to
>  salvage operations.
>
>  The main hall, (Tata Hall) was subjected to particularly heavy abuse:
>  all of the shelves were pulled down, all of the windows and most of the
>  furniture damaged or destroyed, and Bhandarkar's stately portrait was
>  slashed (perhaps irreparably, but i am not sure.) The front office as
>  well as the executive offices - Prof. Bhate, Dr. Bhalerao, Prof.
>  Dadhphale and so on were also not spared and subjected to a great deal
>  of physical damage - computers, the (in)famous copier, furniture,
>  cabinets, anything made of glass, all were vandalized. The library, and
>  particularly its entrance foyer was simply devastated - again, mainly
>  the shelves were toppled, books and files torn and scattered, seemingly
>  indiscriminately, the portaits of Sanskritists defaced, and the glass
>  broken. THe Prakrit wing, from what I could see, experienced little
damage.
>
>  The manuscript division, which at least from my point of view holds the
>  true treasures of BORI, was also pillaged, though from what I can tell,
>  the vast majority of the manuscripts have not been subjected to severe
>  damage. This, however, I urge, is simply my observation. The majority of
>  the cabinets, though many had been toppled, had not been ransacked
>  nearly to the degree as what I saw in Tata Hall or in the library. The
>  cleanup operation did not move to the manuscript room today, and they
>  understandably want to take their time in assessing the damage there,
>  and to handle the manuscripts with caution, so I urge that my
>  observations be taken as very preliminary.
>
>  A meeting of the executive board was held today around noon, and Prof.
>  Bhate, who is a family friend, was understandably busy fielding
>  questions from media, politicians, dignitaries, and the like. As a
>  result, I have not yet had a chance to speak with her and so I cannot
>  describe what sorts of decisions have been made. But I can certainly
>  vouch for the fact that no one at Bhandarkar saw this coming. The Jim
>  Laine / Bahulkar issue had arisen over tea at the Institute on Friday,
>  and while all felt it was deplorable and that the political climate has
>  become very serious, there was not the slightest suggestion that
>  anything of this magnitude might take place.
>
>  While the committee members were engaged in meetings and interviews, the
>  staff and a great, great number of volunteers - largely students,
>  family, and neighbors (and myself) - engaged in an impressive and
>  demanding 'rescue' operation. Many of the young guys who rallied
>  together to hoist up the heavy wooden bookshelves did so tirelessly and
>  surprisingly without argument. Indeed, the unspoken bond of people
>  working together to right a wrong is hard to describe. A great number of
>  people, armed with jhaaduus, surgical masks and rubber gloves, managed
>  to sweep up most of the glass in the main building and the library, move
>  all the books out of the toppled bookcases into stacks in the center of
>  the room, clear out all of the destroyed furniture, and set the
>  bookcases upright in Tata hall (and in much of the library). There is
>  still a great deal of cleanup work to be done, particularly in the
>  manuscript room, and of course the business of assing damage, repairing,
>  replacing, and restoring the furniture, bookcases, and the books
>  themselves will take months if not years.
>
>  While the operations at Bhandarkar are focused on cleanup and recovery,
>  I should emphasize that several scholars and individuals in Pune have
>  been also physically threatened and have been given personal police
>  protection. The situation is therefore still very serious here and in no
>  way is the matter settled. However, the media coverage in Marathi of
>  this issue has been massive, and I imagine it is something that the
>  community will not easily be able to brush aside.
>
>  I will be going to BORI again tomorrow to help in the cleanup and to see
>  if i can speak with Prof. Bhate; within limits, if there are more
>  specific details you would like to know or if there is anything you are
>  curious about, please ask me and I will try to find out tomorrow.
>
>
> > Adheesh Sathaye
> > Ph.D. Candidate,
> > Dept. of South and Southeast Asian Studies
> > University of California, Berkeley
> >
>




From lmfosse at ONLINE.NO  Wed Jan  7 16:34:54 2004
From: lmfosse at ONLINE.NO (Lars Martin Fosse)
Date: Wed, 07 Jan 04 17:34:54 +0100
Subject: SV: politics on Indology
In-Reply-To: <p06010200bc21d5348be2@[128.146.41.35]>
Message-ID: <161227073733.23782.15691879679493379557.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

John C. Huntingdon wrote:

> In these "interesting times" with the wholesale destruction
> of Buddhist art in Afghanistan (including the Bamiyan
> Buddhas), the burning of the Sanskrit college in Nepal with
> its estimated 12,000 uncataloged manuscripts, the looting and
> destruction in Iraq, and now attacks on members of the
> Indology community directly it is clear that we are in a
> situation that requires information and for better or worse,
> opinions about it. ...

I agree with this: we cannot avoid politics for the simple reasont that
politics is heading straight for us.

It seems to me that the Indological community under all circumstances
should strive to preserve cultural material. This can be very difficult.
E.g.: The University of Oslo a couple of years ago tried to talk the
Tibetan University into transferring many hours worth of old tapes with
bards singing the Gesar epic to modern electronic media. Together with a
sound technician I tried to set up a project with this in mind. The
whole thing collapsed because of a departemental war at the University
of Tibet. Not everybody wants to be helped.

Nevertheless, it is certainly worth trying. It is frightening that
thousands of manuscripts and cultural objects simply are destroyed for
the most hairbrained of reasons. Making copies or taking photographs and
spreading them around is the only way to preserve such material against
willed and wanton destruction. In the case of India, it would not even
be necessary to move such copy material out of the country, only to have
it stashed in several different places.

But it is also clear that extremist organizations of various kinds want
to influence the way certain subjects are taught in schools and at
universities. The scholarly world has to make a concerted stand against
all such intrusions, whether it is "creationism", Muslim fundamentalism
or Hindutva. This is an area where we cannot go it alone. We need broad
cooperation with other specialists in various other fields.

Lars Martin Fosse

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From jkirk at SPRO.NET  Thu Jan  8 01:51:29 2004
From: jkirk at SPRO.NET (jkirk)
Date: Wed, 07 Jan 04 18:51:29 -0700
Subject: Review of Laine's book in Tribune-Specturm
Message-ID: <161227073747.23782.14156749762953501455.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

http://www.tribuneindia.com/2003/20031207/spectrum/book4.htm

Joanna Kirkpatrick (thanks to post on Buddha-L)




From witzel at FAS.HARVARD.EDU  Thu Jan  8 14:21:42 2004
From: witzel at FAS.HARVARD.EDU (Mi. Witzel)
Date: Thu, 08 Jan 04 09:21:42 -0500
Subject: Nepalese ms destruction
In-Reply-To: <p0600202abc223d5c967c@[169.232.228.30]>
Message-ID: <161227073757.23782.12043496118452856743.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

Sorry, Jonathan: I cannot answer this question. MSS in the Terai lowlands
(and elsewhere outside the Valley)  were filmed long after I had left the
project.  I know we have filmed Maithili/Skt. MSS in the Janakpur area,
though.

Unfortunately, the new NGMPP CD (rough catalogue of all Skt. etc.,
non-Tibetan MSS) does not specify yet where the MSS were filmed.

We have to ask other former local directors of the project (1970-2002), or
better, contact the NGMPP office in Hamburg, where they are cataloguing (in
detail) all, more than 100 K MSS filmed by the project.

See: http://www.uni-hamburg.de/ngmpp/  or  Nepal Research Centre,
http://www.uni-hamburg.de/Wiss/FB/10/IndienS/NRC/index.html    or:
nrc at wlink.com.np

See the reports: http://www.uni-hamburg.de/ngmpp/reports.html

Michael


===============


>A question:
>
>>J. Huntingdon wrote:
>>
>>>About eighteen  months months ago, in Dang ...  The "Maoists" burned  the
>>>western branch of the Sanskrit University to the ground. It contained
>>>an estimated 12,000 Sanskrit manuscripts, ....
>
>
>And Michael wrote:
>
>>
>>Are you SURE about the mss?  The newpaper at the time (see below)  spoke
>>only of printed  books, and a friend whom I asked mentioned only, if I
>>recall correctly,  "office materials, files" not mss.  I also  doubt that
>>they would have collected 12,000 or even 50,000 mss. in just 14 years...
>
>Michael is the idea person to answer the following: if there were Skt
>MSS in this University, would not we expect that they had been
>photographed by the NGMPP? (Not that this would make the destruction
>of the mss any more palatable, of course).
>
>JAS
>
>--
>Jonathan Silk
>Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures
>Center for Buddhist Studies
>UCLA
>290 Royce Hall
>Box 951540
>Los Angeles, CA 90095-1540
>phone: (310)206-8235
>fax:  (310)825-8808
>silk at humnet.ucla.edu
============================================================
Michael Witzel
Department of Sanskrit & Indian Studies, Harvard University
1 Bow Street, Cambridge MA 02138, USA

ph. 1- 617-496 2990 (also messages)
home page:  http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~witzel/mwpage.htm




From sseas at SOCRATES.BERKELEY.EDU  Thu Jan  8 18:07:04 2004
From: sseas at SOCRATES.BERKELEY.EDU (Robert Goldman)
Date: Thu, 08 Jan 04 10:07:04 -0800
Subject: Chronicle of Higher Education Articles on BORI and Mahendra U.
In-Reply-To: <Pine.WNT.4.58.0401081218400.2024@Anat-lws119.anat.ucl.ac.uk>
Message-ID: <161227073761.23782.8944691072929530974.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

Dear Colleagues,

Today's web edition of the Chronicle of Higher Education has a report
on the recent assault on BORI.

Non-subscribers to CHE can, I am informed, access the article for the
next five days at the following site.

http://chronicle.com/temp/email.php?id=j0uyp43ittd4xns3crlmkzsjykaexwqk

Incidentally, the CHE ran an article by the same reporter, Martha Ann
Overland, on the destruction of
Nepal's Mahendra  Sanskrit University on Oct 3, 2002.

I do not have the entire piece any longer but the following are some
relevant passages. The report does not make any distinction between
books and manuscripts.


  "On a moonless night last May, hundreds of Maoist guerrillas
descended from the hills and surrounded Nepal's only
Sanskrit-language university. They cut the phone lines, ordered
everyone out of the buildings, and then went from room to room,
dousing  files and furniture with kerosene, and set them alight.
As the buildings burned, and flames consumed Mahendra Sanskrit
University's rare, ancient, and irreplaceable Hindu texts, the rebels
quietly slipped back into the surrounding forests.

? a demand of the rebel leadership that resonates with many Nepalese
is the call for elimination of Sanskrit in the secondary schools.
Sanskrit is the language of the high-caste Hindu priests and scholars
who study ancient texts. The members of the low-caste groups and
those known as "untouchables" widely resent being required to learn
the language of the Brahmins, the group that has traditionally kept
them in servitude. Last year, rebels went to examination centers
where annual school tests were being held, grabbed the Sanskrit
sections, and publicly burned them."

Overland also quotes an informant as follows:

"One of my relatives was a high-school headmaster," says a
communications major at Pokhara University, who says he fears
reprisals if he gives his name. "The Maoists were asking for
donations. He had no money to give. They also wanted him to stop
teaching Sanskrit. They dragged him from the classroom, tied him to a
tree, strangled him with his own scarf, and then shot him to death.
All the students were crying."


--
Dr. R. P.  Goldman
Professor of Sanskrit
Department of  South and Southeast Asian Studies
7303 Dwinelle Hall MC #2540
University of California at Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-2540
email: sseas at socrates.berkeley.edu
Phone: (510) 642-4089
Fax:     (510) 642.2409




From huntington.2 at OSU.EDU  Thu Jan  8 15:53:27 2004
From: huntington.2 at OSU.EDU (John Huntington)
Date: Thu, 08 Jan 04 10:53:27 -0500
Subject: Nepalese ms destruction
In-Reply-To: <v04011701bc22090ed131@[10.0.1.49]>
Message-ID: <161227073759.23782.821783101746761282.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

The primary notification we learned of the destruction of the
Sanskrit university was on www.nepalnews.com and published in
Kathmandu Post

Rebels set ablaze Mahendra Sanskrit University

By K P Ghimire

KATHMANDU, May 12   Maoist rebels on Saturday night set ablaze
offices of the country's only Sanskrit University-Mahendra Sanskrit
University-in Beljhundi of Dang district, reducing estimated property
worth Rs. 27.5 million to a cinder.

The university is located about 15 kilometres west of Ghorahi, the
district headquarters of Dang. But nobody was hurt in the incident,
university officials said.

Around 200 rebels, most of whom were women, surrounded the
university's premises and torched most of the offices which include
Administration Office, Office of the Controller of Examinations and
offices of Vice-chancellor, Registrar and Rector.

Following the arson of the university complex, around 50,000 ancient
Sanskrit textbooks, including Kalchakra Ambika have been completely
reduced to ashes.

Talking over telephone, Chudamani Adhikari, administrative officer of
the university, told The Kathmandu Post that the rebels doused the
offices with kerosene and set them on fire.

All the furniture and records of students for the last 14 years were
destroyed, said eyewitnesses. The rebels snatched keys of the offices
from security guards and ravaged the university property, Adhikari
said, adding that the students of All Nepal Independent Students'
Union-Revolutionary (ANISU-Revolutionary) were largely responsible
for the attack.

The rebels had also blocked the road leading toward the university in
a bid to prevent the security forces from reaching there. It was just
last year that the rebels exploded a powerful crude bomb in the
office of the Vice-chancellor, Purna Chandra Dhungel, who usually
stays in Kathmandu.

Shortly after an very informed Newar  Sanskritist friend down scaled
the number but specifically mentioned manuscripts as being described
in the paper as "ancient Sankirit textbooks."

Dina and I would love to have been misinformed.

John







>J. Huntingdon wrote:
>
>>About eighteen  months months ago, in Dang ...  The "Maoists" burned  the
>>western branch of the Sanskrit University to the ground. It contained
>>an estimated 12,000 Sanskrit manuscripts, ....
>
>Are you SURE about the mss?  The newpaper at the time (see below)  spoke
>only of printed  books, and a friend whom I asked mentioned only, if I
>recall correctly,  "office materials, files" not mss.  I also  doubt that
>they would have collected 12,000 or even 50,000 mss. in just 14 years...
>
>The destruction was bad enough, but perhaps not a serious as mentioned...
>
>MW
>------------
>The news (nepalnews.com, etc.) had this: 5/13/2002:
>
>Rebels set ablaze Mahendra Sanskrit University
>
>By K P Ghimire
>
>KATHMANDU, May 12 Maoist rebels on Saturday night set
>ablaze offices of the country's only Sanskrit University - Mahendra
>Sanskrit University-in Beljhundi of Dang district, reducing estimated
>property worth Rs. 27.5 million to a cinder.
>
>The university is located about 15 kilometres west of Ghorahi, the
>district headquarters of Dang. But nobody was hurt in the incident,
>university officials said.
>
>Around 200 rebels, most of whom were women, surrounded the
>university's premises and torched most of the offices which include
>Administration
>Office, Office of the Controller of Examinations and offices of
>Vice-chancellor, Registrar and Rector.
>
>Following the arson of the university complex, around 50,000 ancient
>Sanskrit textbooks, including Kalchakra Ambika have been completely
>reduced to ashes.
>
>Talking over telephone, Chudamani Adhikari, administrative officer of
>the university, told The Kathmandu Post that the rebels doused the
>offices with kerosene and set them on fire. All the furniture and
>records of students for the last 14 years were destroyed, said
>eyewitnesses. The rebels snatched keys of the offices from security
>guards and ravaged the university property, Adhikari said, adding that
>the students of All Nepal Independent Students' Union-Revolutionary
>(ANISU-Revolutionary) were largely responsible for the attack.
>
>The rebels had also blocked the road leading toward the university in
>a bid to prevent the security forces from reaching there. It was just
>last year that the rebels exploded a powerful crude bomb in the office
>of the Vice-chancellor, Purna Chandra Dhungel, who usually stays in
>Kathmandu.
>
>NB : about half a year later, the  Govt. abolished compulsory Skt. in this
>multi-ethnic/ling. country:
>
>  KATHMANDU, DEC 7 (AP)
>
>Nepal has ordered its schools to drop compulsory Sanskrit lessons, but
>denies it's caved into demands by Maoist rebels who say the language is
>foreign to  the Himalayan kingdom....
>...  Sanskrit had not been taught at the infant school level and would now
>no longer be compulsory for primary students either.
>... arrangement will be  made to carry out primary level education in
>mother-tongue languages in areas where it is feasible and education up to
>secondary level will be free for women, Dalit and the oppressed and
>backward communities like Thami, Raute, Chepang and Hayu.
>
>For the general sentioment cf also teh newsmagazine NEPALI TIMES:
>http://www.nepalnews.com.np/ntimes/issue153/stateofthestate.ht
>============================================================
>Michael Witzel
>Department of Sanskrit & Indian Studies, Harvard University
>1 Bow Street, Cambridge MA 02138, USA
>
>ph. 1- 617-496 2990 (also messages)
>home page:  http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~witzel/mwpage.htm




From ucgadkw at UCL.AC.UK  Thu Jan  8 12:24:17 2004
From: ucgadkw at UCL.AC.UK (Dominik Wujastyk)
Date: Thu, 08 Jan 04 12:24:17 +0000
Subject: Statement on BORI
Message-ID: <161227073751.23782.14417661587817580605.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

What follows is a letter shortly to be sent to the Prime Minister of India
and the other addressees listed below.

If you wish to endorse the letter, please send your signature (+ titles
and institutional affiliations) to

        stwright at uchicago.edu

NB: for names to be included they must be received by
        MIDNIGHT, SUNDAY JANUARY 11.
The names will be listed in alphabetical order.

Efforts are continuing to determine the best way to make financial
contributions to BORI. More information will follow soon.


-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

An Open Letter to:

The Prime Minister (Govt. of India), Mr. Atal Bihari Vajapeyi
The Minister of Human Resource Development (Govt. of India), Dr. Murli Manohar Joshi
The Chief Minister of Maharashtra, Mr. Shushil Kumar Shinde

CC:
Ambassadors of India to France, Germany, Netherlands, UK, USA

The Times of India
The Hindu
Indian Express
Deccan Herald
The Telegraph [Calcutta]
India Today


We are deeply shocked by the January 5 vandalism at the Bhandarkar
Oriental Research Institute in Pune, one of the great treasuries of Indian
knowledge, by a mob of the Maratha Sewa Sangh calling itself Sambhaji
Brigade. We deeply deplore the public harassment of senior scholar
Professor Shrikant Bahulkar of the Tilak Maharashtra Vidyapeet by the Shiv
Sena.

We call upon the Prime Minister, the Minister of Human Resource
Development, the Chief Minister of Maharashtra, and other leaders of the
Government of India and of the State of Maharashtra to condemn these acts
publicly and unequivocally, to seek swift and appropriate punishment of
all those involved, and to ban the organizations responsible for these
acts.

A centuries-old tradition in India of social and intellectual tolerance is
being destroyed before our very eyes. The current political leadership
must act decisively and they must act now to ensure that such things never
again occur. The world is watching, and history will judge.

Signed:

Name                    Title           Institution (for purposes of identification only)




From ucgadkw at UCL.AC.UK  Thu Jan  8 13:12:40 2004
From: ucgadkw at UCL.AC.UK (Dominik Wujastyk)
Date: Thu, 08 Jan 04 13:12:40 +0000
Subject: Query from Bo Sax
Message-ID: <161227073753.23782.9175297164532298451.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

Replies to  <William.Sax at urz.uni-heidelberg.de> please.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 21:01:17 +0100
From: k06 <William.Sax at urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
To: ucgadkw at ucl.ac.uk
Subject: Request from Bo

Hello, Dom
[...]

Could you do me a favour?  Post the following question on the
Indology list for me?  Thanks.

I've been using "Times Indian" fonts on a MacIntosh for years.
However, I can't manage to get them to print with the new Macintosh
Operating Systems.  I can see the screen fonts all right, but can't
get the printer to print anything.  Does anyone have a solution?  If
so, please contact

William.Sax at urz.uni-heidelberg.de

Thanks
bo




From ucgadkw at UCL.AC.UK  Thu Jan  8 14:01:08 2004
From: ucgadkw at UCL.AC.UK (Dominik Wujastyk)
Date: Thu, 08 Jan 04 14:01:08 +0000
Subject: Announcement of vacancy in Vienna (fwd)
Message-ID: <161227073755.23782.14407603798673144866.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: WG: Ass,stelle im heutigen Mitteilungsblatt
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 17:31:31 +0100
From: "Karin Preisendanz" <karin.preisendanz at univie.ac.at>


Universit?t Wien:

Im Arbeitsbereich Institut f?r S?dasien-, Tibet- und Buddhismuskunde der
Organisationseinheit: Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaftliche Fakult?t
(Kennzahl: 17/15-2003/2004), kann ehestm?glich die Stelle einer
Assistentin/eines Assistenten besetzt werden.

Das Arbeitsverh?ltnis ist mit 6 Jahren zeitlich befristet.

Besch?ftigungsausma?: 100 %

Aufnahmebedingungen: Abgeschlossenes Studium auf dem Gebiet der
Indologie/S?dasienkunde, Doktoratsstudium oder eine dem Doktorat
gleichzuwertende wissenschaftliche Bef?higung.

Gew?nschte Zusatzqualifikationen: Forschungsschwerpunkt im Bereich der
Geschichte der indischen Philosophie, einschlie?lich der buddhistischen
Traditionen, unter Verwendung von Quellen in den Prim?rsprachen
Sanskrit, Pali und Tibetisch und mit philologisch-ideengeschichtlicher
Methodik; ausgezeichnete Kenntnis des klassischen Sanskrit, insbesondere
des wissenschaftlichen Sanskrit; Vertrautheit mit der Verwendung und
Bearbeitung handschriftlicher Quellen des s?dasiatischen Raums;
Bef?higung zur Beteiligung an der Lehre in den Gebieten Sprache,
Literatur, Religion und Philosophie S?dasiens; Bereitschaft zur
Zusammenarbeit in Forschung und Lehre mit dem Institutsbereich Tibet-
und Buddhismuskunde; Bereitschaft zur Mitarbeit in der Verwaltung und
bei den wissenschaftlichen Publikations- und Datenbankprojekten des
Instituts; sehr gute Englischkenntnisse.

F?r Bewerber, die Deutsch nicht als Muttersprache haben, sind gute
aktive und sehr gute passive Kenntnisse des Deutschen vorzuweisen.

Die Universit?t Wien strebt eine Erh?hung des Frauenanteils insbesondere
in Leitungsfunktionen und beim wissenschaftlichen Personal an und
fordert deshalb qualifizierte Frauen ausdr?cklich zur Bewerbung auf.
Frauen werden bei gleicher Qualifikation vorrangig aufgenommen.
Kennzahl: 17/15-2003/2004

Bewerbungsfrist: 21 Tage ab Erscheinungsdatum.

Bewerbungen:
Bewerbungen sind mit Lebenslauf an die Universit?t Wien, Zentrale
Verwaltung - Personalabteilung, 1014 Wien, Dr. Karl Lueger Ring 1, zu
richten (Formulare sind ebenfalls dort erh?ltlich). Die Bewerber/innen
haben keinen Anspruch auf Abgeltung angefallener Reise- und
Aufenthaltskosten, die aus Anla? des Aufnahmeverfahrens entstanden sind.

Bitte Kennzahl unbedingt anf?hren !




From rbm49 at EXT.CANTERBURY.AC.NZ  Thu Jan  8 03:37:15 2004
From: rbm49 at EXT.CANTERBURY.AC.NZ (Richard Mahoney)
Date: Thu, 08 Jan 04 16:37:15 +1300
Subject: Digital images of MSS -- VIPS and NIP
Message-ID: <161227073749.23782.1199905956770653949.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

Dear Colleagues,

It may be timely to flag the availability of the following:

 VIPS, an image-processing library

 NIP, an interface (GUI) for VIPS

 http://www.vips.ecs.soton.ac.uk/index.php

This software would seem especially well suited for processing and
manipulating digital images of MSS.


Best regards,

 Richard Mahoney


--
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From reimann at UCLINK4.BERKELEY.EDU  Fri Jan  9 01:42:40 2004
From: reimann at UCLINK4.BERKELEY.EDU (Luis Gonzalez-Reimann)
Date: Thu, 08 Jan 04 17:42:40 -0800
Subject: More on BORI
Message-ID: <161227073763.23782.7461127225219057787.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

Friends,

The following quote from a recent article is worth reading.

Luis Gonzalez-Reimann, Ph.D.
University of California, Berkeley
____________

DF govt seeks legal opinion on action against US author

TIMES NEWS NETWORK [ THURSDAY, JANUARY 08, 2004 01:56:22 AM ]

MUMBAI: The Congress-led Democratic Front (DF) is seeking expert legal opinion
on whether action can be initiated against American author James Laine for his
"negative portrayal" of Chhatrapati Shivaji in his book A Hindu King in
Islamic
India.

"No person in Maharashtra will tolerate any objectionable reference to
Chhatrapati Shivaji. So we are asking for advice from the legal fraternity if
we can initiate action against the author," said state home minister R.R.
Patil
in Mantralaya on Wednesday.
...

Full article at:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/411075.cms

___________




From J.L.Brockington at ED.AC.UK  Fri Jan  9 10:46:01 2004
From: J.L.Brockington at ED.AC.UK (John Brockington)
Date: Fri, 09 Jan 04 10:46:01 +0000
Subject: Statement on BORI
In-Reply-To: <Pine.WNT.4.58.0401081218400.2024@Anat-lws119.anat.ucl.ac.uk>
Message-ID: <161227073765.23782.13763047848004910944.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

Dear Colleagues,

The planned open letter concerning the ransacking of the Bhandarkar
Institute is welcome.  You might like to know also that Professor R. K.
Sharma and I have also each been making representations on behalf of the
International Association of Sanskrit Studies in appropriate quarters.  The
more such representations are made, individually or collectively, the better
in registering the depth of feeling in the scholarly community about this.
This is a more positive response than simply discussion on this list, where
information (or URLs to such info) seems to me more useful.

Yours

John Brockington


Professor J. L. Brockington
Secretary General, International Association of Sanskrit Studies

Sanskrit, School of Asian Studies
7-8 Buccleuch Place
Edinburgh   EH8 9LW        U.K.

tel:  +131 650 4174
fax: +131 651 1258




From ghart at SOCRATES.BERKELEY.EDU  Fri Jan  9 21:23:26 2004
From: ghart at SOCRATES.BERKELEY.EDU (George Hart)
Date: Fri, 09 Jan 04 13:23:26 -0800
Subject: The Hindu editorial on BORI
In-Reply-To: <BC2436E8.4D23%J.L.Brockington@ed.ac.uk>
Message-ID: <161227073768.23782.13820469433495840962.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

See

http://www.hindu.com/2004/01/10/stories/2004011001231000.htm

It's worth noting that a month or so ago, the editor of the Hindu and
several reporters were arrested and ordered to spend a month in jail
by the Tamil Nadu assembly (Jeyalalitha's party).  They were
subsequently released by the Indian supreme court.   The party
members were miffed by an unfavorable editorial that appeared in the
first half of the year.  I find the editorial on BORI quite eloquent
and moving.  G. Hart




From Axel.Michaels at URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE  Sun Jan 11 05:14:07 2004
From: Axel.Michaels at URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (Axel Michaels)
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 04 06:14:07 +0100
Subject: book announcement
Message-ID: <161227073771.23782.16237758390329565794.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

Dear colleagues,

I am happy to announce that my book on Hinduism, translated by Barbara Harshaw, has just been relased by Princeton University Press. For details see: http://pup.princeton.edu/titles/7624.html

Best wishes
AM


Prof. Dr. Axel Michaels
Direktor der Abt. Klassische Indologie, Sprecher des SFB 619 (Ritualdynamik) / S?dasien-Institut der Universit?t Heidelberg / Im Neuenheimer Feld 330 / D-69120 Heidelberg / Tel. +49-6221-548917 / Fax +49-6221-548336 / www.sai.uni-heidelberg.de/abt/IND/index.html; www.ritualdynamik.uni-hd.de




From acharyadiwakar at HOTMAIL.COM  Tue Jan 13 03:47:18 2004
From: acharyadiwakar at HOTMAIL.COM (diwakar acharya)
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 04 09:32:18 +0545
Subject: Nepalese ms destruction
Message-ID: <161227073773.23782.14092096248831752488.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

Dear list,
Sorry for a late response, I am in Pondy these days and not checking my
email account regularly.

As far as I know, reality is quite different. Maoists really had set a in
one of the buildings of the Sanskrit university in Dang, and some valuable
historical documents were destroyed. But the number was exaggerated.

The most valuable material destroyed there was a small collection of
copperplates and other historical documents (maybe rubbings etc.) collected
from the surrounding area by a Nepali historian Yogi Naraharinath more than
three decades ago. It was kept in a store-room together with other things
and no one had proper information of the collection.

Maoists mainly had targeted adminitrative and student records. In the burnt
store-room, there were also a few hundred copies of MSU?s first two
publications: The Skandapuraa.na and Kaalacakraanusaariga.nitam, copies of
past issues of Haimavatii (the journal of then Sanskrit Dept. of Tribhuvan
University).

MSU possesses a few hundred mss but they all are kept in Balmiki Campus
Kathmandu not in Dang, and are also micofilmed by NGMPP.

However, in a country with an army of ill-educated and brain-washed people,
anything can happen anytime. Maoists are showing their intolerance with
tradition and traditional knowledge by killing Sanskrit teachers and burning
Sanskrit books. So, I will not be surprised if they attack the archives in
Kathmandu or some other library.

Best,

Diwakar Acharya
Local Director in Kathmandu
NGMCP

and

Lecturer
Balmiki Campus
MSU

>We have to ask other former local directors of the project (1970-2002), or
>better, contact the NGMPP office in Hamburg, where they are cataloguing (in
>detail) all, more than 100 K MSS filmed by the project.
>
>See: http://www.uni-hamburg.de/ngmpp/  or  Nepal Research Centre,
>http://www.uni-hamburg.de/Wiss/FB/10/IndienS/NRC/index.html    or:
>nrc at wlink.com.np
>

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From silk at HUMNET.UCLA.EDU  Fri Jan 16 17:18:50 2004
From: silk at HUMNET.UCLA.EDU (Jonathan Silk)
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 04 09:18:50 -0800
Subject: Peking Kanjur/Tanjur contents table?
Message-ID: <161227073776.23782.3156227807384913782.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

Friends,

I wonder if anyone has or knows of a table correlating which Peking
Kanjur/Tanjur texts are in which volumes of the reprint edition. I
know of the catalogue, of course, but I do not have a copy, and since
the whole of our university's set of the Kanjur/Tanjur is in storage,
it must be requested by volume number. Therefore, a table of text
numbers to reprint vol. would be most helpful.

Any hints most welcome (apologies for cross-posting to H-Buddhism and
Indology).

JAS
--
Jonathan Silk
Department of Asian Languages & Cultures
Center for Buddhist Studies
UCLA
290 Royce Hall
Box 951540
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1540
phone: (310)206-8235
fax:  (310)825-8808
silk at humnet.ucla.edu
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From navadipanyaya at HOTMAIL.COM  Sat Jan 17 04:47:55 2004
From: navadipanyaya at HOTMAIL.COM (jagan nadh)
Date: Sat, 17 Jan 04 04:47:55 +0000
Subject: Querry
Message-ID: <161227073778.23782.17732789790935818127.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

Dear collegues

       Any body can help me to get the addres of Prof.Kristopher Byrski
,D.r.Peter Cesleck.

Jaganadh.G/Universit of Kerala

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From Martin.Gansten at TEOL.LU.SE  Mon Jan 19 19:57:45 2004
From: Martin.Gansten at TEOL.LU.SE (Martin Gansten)
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 04 20:57:45 +0100
Subject: Kannada self-study resources?
In-Reply-To: <240777839.20030617222725@lel.msk.ru>
Message-ID: <161227073780.23782.4377723258236726697.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

A friend who needs to learn Kannada has asked me for any useful
(English-language) resources related to the self-study of that language:
books, audio tapes, multimedia presentations, websites, etc. As I am
ignorant in these matters, I would be grateful for any tips (perhaps best
sent off-list).

Thanks in advance,
Martin Gansten




From j_e_m_houben at YAHOO.COM  Tue Jan 20 16:19:08 2004
From: j_e_m_houben at YAHOO.COM (Jan E.M. Houben)
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 04 08:19:08 -0800
Subject: Plants in Health and Culture
In-Reply-To: <BC2436E8.4D23%J.L.Brockington@ed.ac.uk>
Message-ID: <161227073785.23782.19239330969844124.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

The following symposium contains two
contributions of direct relevance to Vedic
studies (my own and one by David S. Flattery):
Plants in Health and Culture, Leiden, 16-17
February. The preliminary program appears at
www.plantsinhealthandculture.nl

Those interested to attend are invited to contact
M.Rozing at let.leidenuniv.nl

With best regards,
Jan Houben



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From navadipanyaya at HOTMAIL.COM  Tue Jan 20 11:51:36 2004
From: navadipanyaya at HOTMAIL.COM (jagan nadh)
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 04 11:51:36 +0000
Subject: Querry
Message-ID: <161227073783.23782.17685086101803064408.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

Dear collegues

       Any body can help me to get the addres of Prof.Kristopher
Byrski,D.r.Peter Cesleck.Boath are Polish citizons ,doing some works on
Bhasa Plays and Koodiyattom of Kerala.Thanks in advance

Jaganadh.G/University of Kerala

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From bimahony at DAVIDSON.EDU  Tue Jan 20 19:58:32 2004
From: bimahony at DAVIDSON.EDU (Mahony, Bill)
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 04 14:58:32 -0500
Subject: Muktabodha Dissertation Fellowships
Message-ID: <161227073790.23782.3637025265621282947.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

Dear INDOLOGY Colleagues,

Please feel free to announce these dissertation research fellowships to any students you feel would be qualified and interested in applying.

Thank you,

William K. Mahony
Professor of Religion
Davidson College
President,
Muktabodha Indological Research Institute.

***********


NAME OF FELLOWSHIP: 

Muktabodha Indological Research Institute 
Dissertation Research Fellowships in Hindu Studies


AMOUNT OF AWARD	

$10,000 per student, to be used between June 2004 and December 2005.


QUALIFICATIONS: 
	
Applicants must have completed their doctoral coursework in a Religion, South Asian Studies, or related program and are now undertaking their dissertation research. Fellows will normally use their grants to support them while undertaking research in India.


FIELDS OF STUDY:	

Preference will be given to the study of textual sources of the Hindu Tantric tradition. However, applications from other fields of Hindu studies are also welcome.


APPLICATION DEADLINE: 

March 1, 2004.


ANNOUNCEMENT OF AWARDS:

March 15, 2004.


FOR APPLICATION MATERIALS, PLEASE CONTACT:

Muktabodha Indological Research Institute
P. O. Box 8585
Emeryville, CA  94662
www.muktabodha.org
info at muktabodha.org
510-655-2170




From swantam at ASIANETINDIA.COM  Tue Jan 20 17:10:25 2004
From: swantam at ASIANETINDIA.COM (Maheswaran Nair)
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 04 22:10:25 +0500
Subject: query
Message-ID: <161227073788.23782.12241930823880481509.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

Dear list members,
Please provide me with e-mail id of any Indologist from Yerevan, Armenia or Yerevan State University or Institute of Oriental Studies, Yerevan.
Thanks in advance
K.Maheswaran Nair, Ph.D.

Professor of Sanskrit and Director

Centre for Vedanta Studies

University of Kerala

Trivandrum, India.

E-mail-swantam at asianetindia.com




From ucgadkw at UCL.AC.UK  Wed Jan 21 18:58:16 2004
From: ucgadkw at UCL.AC.UK (Dominik Wujastyk)
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 04 18:58:16 +0000
Subject: Job advertisement in Hamburg
Message-ID: <161227073793.23782.4088270082162345849.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

Forwarded message:
----------------


Im Fachbereich Orientalistik
(Asien-Afrika-Institut)
- Abteilung f?r Kultur und Geschichte Indiens und Tibets -

ist ab 01.04.2004 zu besetzen eine Stelle, Kennziffer 1827/W3,

Universit?tsprofessorin oder Universit?tsprofessor der Besoldungsgruppe W
3 Bun-desbesoldungsgesetz f?r "Kultur und Geschichte Indiens"

Die Universit?t will den Anteil von Frauen an den Professuren erh?hen. Sie
ist des-halb an Bewerbungen von Frauen besonders interessiert. Frauen
werden nach dem Hamburgischen Hochschulgesetz bei gleichwertiger
Qualifikation vorrangig ber?ck-sichtigt.

Aufgabengebiet:
Vertretung des Faches in Forschung und Lehre. Bewerberinnen bzw. Bewerber
m?s-sen durch wissenschaftliche Publikationen zur Kultur des indischen
Subkontinents in ihrer geschichtlichen Entwicklung ausgewiesen sein.
Der Forschungsschwerpunkt der  Bewerberinnen bzw. Bewerber soll im Bereich
der hinduistischen Philosophie-, Religions- und Sozialgeschichte, der alt-
und mittelindi-schen Literatur und der einheimischen Wissenschaften
liegen, und zwar auf der Ba-sis philologisch-kritischer Bearbeitung der
Prim?rquellen. Vorausgesetzt wird au?er-dem die F?higkeit und Bereitschaft
zur Leitung des ?Nepalese-German Manuscript Cataloguing Project".

Lehrverpflichtung:
8 Lehrveranstaltungsstunden

Einstellungsvoraussetzungen:
Gem?? ? 15 Hamburgisches Hochschulgesetz.

Die Universit?t Hamburg legt auch auf die Qualit?t der Lehre besonderen
Wert. Des-halb sind Lehrerfahrungen und Vorstellungen zur Lehre
darzulegen.

Schwerbehinderte haben Vorrang vor gesetzlich nicht bevorrechtigten
Bewerberin-nen und Bewerbern gleicher Eignung, Bef?higung und fachlicher
Leistung.

Bewerbungen mit tabellarischem Lebenslauf, vorerst nur Schriften- und
Lehrver-zeichnis und eine Darlegung der Lehrerfahrung sowie der
Vorstellungen zur Lehre werden unter Angabe der Kennziffer bis zum
6.02.2004 erbeten an den Pr?sidenten der Universit?t Hamburg, Referat
Personal & Organisation -632.5-, Moorweidenstr. 18, 20148 Hamburg.

1.	Das Verfahren nach ? 14 Abs. 1 HmbHG ist durchgef?hrt worden.
2.    Ver?ffentlicht in: "Die Zeit" vom 18.12.2003




From J.L.Brockington at ED.AC.UK  Thu Jan 22 10:08:34 2004
From: J.L.Brockington at ED.AC.UK (John Brockington)
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 04 10:08:34 +0000
Subject: J. Sukrtindra Or. Res. Inst.
Message-ID: <161227073795.23782.5511215708866692596.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

Dear  Colleagues,

Does anyone have an address (e-mail or postal) for either the Sukrtindra
Oriental Research Institute (located in Thammanam, Kochi -- that is all I
can find) or for Dr Sreeramula Rajeswara Sarma (at Aligarh some years ago)?
The point is that we want to get hold of a recent article by him ("The Mango
Motif in Sanskrit Poetry") in the journal of the institute.  I have tried
searching library catalogues (via both COPAC and the Karlsruher Virtuelle
Katalog) for the journal without result.

Yours

John Brockington


Professor J. L. Brockington
Secretary General, International Association of Sanskrit Studies

Sanskrit, School of Asian Studies
7-8 Buccleuch Place
Edinburgh   EH8 9LW        U.K.

tel:  +131 650 4174
fax: +131 651 1258




From pwyzlic at UNI-BONN.DE  Thu Jan 22 10:30:15 2004
From: pwyzlic at UNI-BONN.DE (Peter Wyzlic)
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 04 11:30:15 +0100
Subject: J. Sukrtindra Or. Res. Inst.
In-Reply-To: <BC3551A2.4EC4%J.L.Brockington@ed.ac.uk>
Message-ID: <161227073797.23782.1723305675983146701.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 10:08:34AM +0000, John Brockington wrote:
>
> Does anyone have an address (e-mail or postal) for either the Sukrtindra
> Oriental Research Institute (located in Thammanam, Kochi -- that is all I
> can find) or for Dr Sreeramula Rajeswara Sarma (at Aligarh some years ago)?
> The point is that we want to get hold of a recent article by him ("The Mango
> Motif in Sanskrit Poetry") in the journal of the institute.  I have tried
> searching library catalogues (via both COPAC and the Karlsruher Virtuelle
> Katalog) for the journal without result.

Dear Prof. Brockington,

S. R. Sarma has the following e-Mail address according to our files:
srsarma at sancharnet.in
I hope it is still valid.

With best regards
Peter Wyzlic

--
Indologisches Seminar
der Universitaet Bonn
Regina-Pacis-Weg 7
D-53113 Bonn
Germeny




From jglausch at WEB.DE  Thu Jan 22 13:23:10 2004
From: jglausch at WEB.DE (Janet Glausch)
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 04 14:23:10 +0100
Subject: J. Sukrtindra Or. Res. Inst.
Message-ID: <161227073803.23782.16266097097372938717.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

I have been at the Sukrtindra ORI in May, last year. The address is:

Sukrtindra Oriental Research Institute
Kuthapady, Thammanam
Kochi - 682 032

e-mail: sukrtindra_ori at yahoo.co.uk

The director is Dr. V. Nithyanantha Bhat.

Yours,

Janet Glausch
University of Leipzig
Institute of Indology and Central Asian Sciences
Burgstr. 21
04109 Leipzig (Germany)


----- Original Message -----
From: "John Brockington" <J.L.Brockington at ED.AC.UK>
To: <INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk>
Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 11:08 AM
Subject: J. Sukrtindra Or. Res. Inst.


> Dear  Colleagues,
>
> Does anyone have an address (e-mail or postal) for either the Sukrtindra
> Oriental Research Institute (located in Thammanam, Kochi -- that is all I
> can find) or for Dr Sreeramula Rajeswara Sarma (at Aligarh some years
ago)?
> The point is that we want to get hold of a recent article by him ("The
Mango
> Motif in Sanskrit Poetry") in the journal of the institute.  I have tried
> searching library catalogues (via both COPAC and the Karlsruher Virtuelle
> Katalog) for the journal without result.
>
> Yours
>
> John Brockington
>
>
> Professor J. L. Brockington
> Secretary General, International Association of Sanskrit Studies
>
> Sanskrit, School of Asian Studies
> 7-8 Buccleuch Place
> Edinburgh   EH8 9LW        U.K.
>
> tel:  +131 650 4174
> fax: +131 651 1258




From yanom at CC.KYOTO-SU.AC.JP  Thu Jan 22 12:11:37 2004
From: yanom at CC.KYOTO-SU.AC.JP (Michio YANO)
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 04 21:11:37 +0900
Subject: J. Sukrtindra Or. Res. Inst.
In-Reply-To: <BC3551A2.4EC4%J.L.Brockington@ed.ac.uk>
Message-ID: <161227073800.23782.17465330795786454943.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

Dear  Professor J. L. Brockington,
> Does anyone have an address (e-mail or postal) for either the Sukrtindra
> Oriental Research Institute (located in Thammanam, Kochi -- that is all I
> can find) or for Dr Sreeramula Rajeswara Sarma (at Aligarh some years ago)?
> The point is that we want to get hold of a recent article by him ("The Mango
> Motif in Sanskrit Poetry") in the journal of the institute.  I have tried
> searching library catalogues (via both COPAC and the Karlsruher Virtuelle
> Katalog) for the journal without result.

Prof. S.R.Sarma is now in Vancouver.
His address etc are as follows:

Department of Asian Studies
University of British Columbia
Asian Centre, 1871 West Mall
Vancouver   BC   V6T 1Z2
Tel. 604-827-5051 (o)
     604-262-5759 (h)

 sarma at interchange.ubc.ca


Yours,

Michio YANO                    Tel +81-75-705-1781
Faculty of Cultural Studies    Fax +81-75-705-1799
Kyoto Sangyo University        e-mail: yanom at cc.kyoto-su.ac.jp
Kyoto 603-8555 Japan           http://www.kyoto-su.ac.jp/~yanom/




From SkoraKM at HIRAM.EDU  Tue Jan 27 14:49:16 2004
From: SkoraKM at HIRAM.EDU (Skora, Kerry)
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 04 09:49:16 -0500
Subject: Muktabodha Dissertation Fellowships
Message-ID: <161227073805.23782.453937702852468013.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

Dear Bill,
 
I met you briefly at the AAR a couple of years ago (I am a friend of Amir Mohammadi, and Ellen Marshall, and I wrote my DSS on Abhinavagupta's notion of "vimarsha" in the _Tantraaloka_ with David White at Virginia).  I am taking a mini-sabbatical next fall to work on Abhinavagupta (hoping to finish a book on "vimarsha" and/or work on my _Tantraaloka_ translations and get them published (I have translated substantial amounts from chapters 3, 4, 29, and 35).  
 
I am wondering if Muktabodha offers any other kinds of grants that I might be eligible for as a pre-tenured Ph.D.  
 
Thank you for whatever you are able to tell me.
 
All the Best,
 
Kerry
 
Kerry Martin Skora
Department of Religious Studies
Hiram College
Hiram, Ohio 44234
USA
330-569-5149 
skorakm at hiram.edu
 
-----Original Message----- 
From: Mahony, Bill [mailto:bimahony at DAVIDSON.EDU] 
Sent: Tue 1/20/2004 2:58 PM 
To: INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk 
Cc: 
Subject: Muktabodha Dissertation Fellowships



	Dear INDOLOGY Colleagues,
	
	Please feel free to announce these dissertation research fellowships to any students you feel would be qualified and interested in applying.
	
	Thank you,
	
	William K. Mahony
	Professor of Religion
	Davidson College
	President,
	Muktabodha Indological Research Institute.
	
	***********
	
	
	NAME OF FELLOWSHIP:
	
	Muktabodha Indological Research Institute
	Dissertation Research Fellowships in Hindu Studies
	
	
	AMOUNT OF AWARD
	
	$10,000 per student, to be used between June 2004 and December 2005.
	
	
	QUALIFICATIONS:
	       
	Applicants must have completed their doctoral coursework in a Religion, South Asian Studies, or related program and are now undertaking their dissertation research. Fellows will normally use their grants to support them while undertaking research in India.
	
	
	FIELDS OF STUDY:       
	
	Preference will be given to the study of textual sources of the Hindu Tantric tradition. However, applications from other fields of Hindu studies are also welcome.
	
	
	APPLICATION DEADLINE:
	
	March 1, 2004.
	
	
	ANNOUNCEMENT OF AWARDS:
	
	March 15, 2004.
	
	
	FOR APPLICATION MATERIALS, PLEASE CONTACT:
	
	Muktabodha Indological Research Institute
	P. O. Box 8585
	Emeryville, CA  94662
	www.muktabodha.org
	info at muktabodha.org
	510-655-2170
	





From christoph.emmrich at URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE  Tue Jan 27 15:44:38 2004
From: christoph.emmrich at URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (Christoph Emmrich)
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 04 16:44:38 +0100
Subject: SUMMER SCHOOL IN SPOKEN SANSKRIT 2004
Message-ID: <161227073807.23782.11718420563645557298.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

SUMMER SCHOOL IN SPOKEN SANSKRIT 2004

The Summer School in Spoken Sanskrit, organized by the Department of
Classical Indology at the South Asia Institute, Heidelberg, celebrates
its fifth anniversary this year. Since its start back in the year 2000
it has attracted students and lecturers of Indological, Religious and
South Asian Studies from all over the world, to practice Sanskrit in a
different way: Under the guidance of Sadanada Das, a Sanskrit native
speaker from Benares, all those with a basic knowledge of Sanskrit
grammar and vocabulary shall learn to carefully listen, to accurately
pronounce and to slowly speak and recite this beautiful language. Our
four-week intensive course will help strengthen your skills and make the
study of Sanskrit a lively and creative experience.

Prerequisites: elementary Sanskrit and English
Organizer: Prof. Dr. Axel Michaels
Teacher: Dr. Sadananda Das
Participants: max. 15; min. 10
Venue: South Asia Institute
Date: August 2 - 27, 2004
Deadlines: application May 15, payment June 30
Fee: Euro 300,- (incl. teaching material)
Accomodation: hostel on request, approx. Euro 200,-

Application including filled out questionnaire at
http://www.sai.uni-heidelberg.de/abt/IND/index.htm (or in this email
below) by email to srilata.mueller at urz.uni-heidelberg.de or letter to:
?Sanskrit Summer School? The Secretariat, Dept. of Classical Indology,
South Asia Institute, Im Neuenheimer Feld 330, 69120 Heidelberg,
Germany. Payment by cheque or transfer to following account: Univ.
Heidelberg 21911 Sparkasse HD BLZ 672 500 20, Re: Skt. Summer School
S-Kto 54034, K-Stelle 97028000

--

Christoph Emmrich
Classical Indology
South Asia Institute
University of Heidelberg
Im Neuenheimer Feld 330
69120 Heidelberg - Germany
Tel.: 0049-54-6303
Fax: 0049-546338

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Application for (please tick):
Sanskrit Summer School 2004
Sanskrit Summer School for Advanced Speakers 2004

Name:
Sex:
Age:
Nationality:
University:
Department:
Supervisor(s):
Semesters:
Subjects, courses:
Title(s):
Occupation, position:
Current project:
Modern languages:
Classical languages:
Years of Sanskrit traning, where?:
Variety of texts read:
Previous courses or practice in spoken Sanskrit: none/some, which?
Accomodation required: yes/no




From navadipanyaya at HOTMAIL.COM  Wed Jan 28 06:03:50 2004
From: navadipanyaya at HOTMAIL.COM (jagan nadh)
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 04 06:03:50 +0000
Subject: None
Message-ID: <161227073809.23782.13508197558252081682.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

Dr.T.Devarajan ,Prof.& Head ,Dept of Sanskrit University asked me to convey
this message

The Dept of Sanskrit University of Kerala is organizing s Vakyarthasadas
(Scholarly Discourse in Sanskrit) and a two-day National Seminar on The
Dramas of Bhasa from 25 ?27 February 2004.
The Seminar includes Centenary Address of Trivandrum Sanskrit Series,
Demonstration of Bhasa Plays in Kutiyattom , Stage presentation and Seminar
deliberation on The Dramas of Bhasa.Noted scholars of the Country
participate in the Seminar.

No T.A.D.A will be payed.

Scholarly papers on The Dramas of Bhasa are invited.
Papers should be reach on or before 20th February 2004.
Yours sincerely
Dr.T.Devarajan
Conveener
Organizing committee


Dr.T.Devarajan /Dept of Sanskrit /University of Kerala /Kariavattom Campus
/Kerala / India / 695 581.Ph91-0471-2418401

E-mail-navadipanyaya at hotmail.com
deptsktkeralauni at hotmail.com

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From magier at COLUMBIA.EDU  Wed Jan 28 11:56:11 2004
From: magier at COLUMBIA.EDU (David Magier)
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 04 06:56:11 -0500
Subject: Conference announcement
Message-ID: <161227073814.23782.6783412427414009554.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

The following conference announcement is being forwarded to your
listserv or mailing list from the EVENTS section of SARAI (South Asia
Resource Access on the Internet). Additional South Asia events can be
found there at:
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/southasia/cuvl/conferences.html
Please contact event organizers directly, as listed below, for any
further information on this conference.
Regards,
David Magier
SARAI <http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/southasia/cuvl>

===============================
Neoliberalism in South Asia: Culture, Gender, and Labor

The 21st Annual Spring Symposium of the Center for South Asian
Studies at the University of Hawai'i is scheduled for April 15-16,
2004. This year's Symposium is titled "Neoliberalism in South Asia:
Culture, Gender, and Labor."
In the 1980s and 1990s, South Asian countries adopted neoliberal
policies that led to increased foreign investment, export-oriented
economies, and cuts in public spending.With these transformations,
South Asia has become increasingly enmeshed in global and gendered
flows of culture and labor. What localized responses have these
processes generated? The CSAS Spring symposium will focus on such key
themes as:

       * economy/poverty
       * state practices and policy
       * popular culture, film/media/TV
       * gender and sustainability
       * women's movements
       * religion
       * migration (domestic: rural/urban)/ diaspora
       * labor rights
       * technology

Papers addressing theoretical innovations in understanding
neoliberalism in these different contexts are also invited.
Paper proposals must include presenter's name, contact information
(including e-mail address, mailing address, and telephone number),
paper title, and abstract (no more than 250 words). If a paper
proposal is accepted, two nights accommodation for presenters
visiting Hawai'i will be provided on campus. Travel to and from
Hawai'i must be made at the presenter's expense.

Submit paper proposals to:
        Center for South Asian Studies
        223 Moore Hall
        University of Hawai'i at M?noa
        Honolulu, HI 96822
Or:
        csas at hawaii.edu

PROPOSALS ACCEPTED FROM JANUARY 1, 2004-MARCH 1, 2004.

The CSAS Spring Symposium is made possible via the generous support
of G.J. and Ellen Watumull and The Sidney Stern Memorial Trust.

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From navadipanyaya at HOTMAIL.COM  Wed Jan 28 06:56:35 2004
From: navadipanyaya at HOTMAIL.COM (jagan nadh)
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 04 06:56:35 +0000
Subject: Seminar on Bhasa Plays
Message-ID: <161227073811.23782.5338669880741209348.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

Dr.T.Devarajan ,Prof and Head Dept of sanskrit University of Kerala asked me
to covey this message

*******************************************************************************
The Dept of Sanskrit University of Kerala is organizing s Vakyarthasadas
(Scholarly Discourse in Sanskrit) and a two-day National Seminar on The
Dramas of Bhasa from 25 ?27 February 2004.
The Seminar includes Centenary Address of Trivandrum Sanskrit Series,
Demonstration of Bhasa Plays in Kutiyattom , Stage presentation and Seminar
deliberation on The Dramas of Bhasa.Noted scholars of the Country
participate in the Seminar.
Scholarly papers on The Dramas of Bhasa are invited.
Papers should be reach on or before 20th February 2004.
Yours sincerely
Dr.T.Devarajan
Conveener
Organizing committee


Dr.T.Devarajan /Dept of Sanskrit /University of Kerala /Kariavattom Campus
/Kerala / India / 695 581.Ph91-0471-2418401

E-mail-navadipanyaya at hotmail.com
deptsktkeralauni at hotmail.com
********************************************************************************

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From christoph.emmrich at URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE  Wed Jan 28 11:50:00 2004
From: christoph.emmrich at URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (Christoph Emmrich)
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 04 12:50:00 +0100
Subject: ADVANCED SUMMER SCHOOL IN SPOKEN SANSKRIT 2004
Message-ID: <161227073812.23782.11782408372039963859.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

ADVANCED SUMMER SCHOOL IN SPOKEN SANSKRIT 2004

This year for the second time the South Asia Institute, University of
Heidelberg offers a three-week intensive course dedicated to advanced
learners of spoken Sanskrit. Shri Sadananda Das has prepared a course
which especially addresses the needs of the alumni of the previous
Heidelberger Sanskrit Summer Schools, but is equally open to those who
already speak Sanskrit. What has been learnt in previous courses will be
reactivated and the students will be assisted in enlarging their
vocabulary, practicing the use of idiomatic expressions as well as in
developing free speech and having topically oriented discussions. By
introducing new material from gnomic and kaavya literature one of the
foci once again will be memorization, recitation and, as a grand finale,
a theatrical performance.


Prerequisites: elementary Sanskrit and English
Organizer: Prof. Dr. Axel Michaels
Teacher: Dr. Sadananda Das
Participants: max. 15; min. 10
Venue: South Asia Institute
Date: September 6 - 24, 2004
Deadlines: application May 15, payment June 30
Fee: Euro 300,- (incl. teaching material)
Accomodation: hostel on request, approx. Euro 200,-

Application including filled out questionnaire at
http://www.sai.uni-heidelberg.de/abt/IND/index.htm (or in this email
below) by email to srilata.mueller at urz.uni-heidelberg.de or letter to:
?Advanced Sanskrit Summer School? The Secretariat, Dept. of Classical
Indology, South Asia Institute, Im Neuenheimer Feld 330, 69120
Heidelberg, Germany. Payment by cheque or transfer to following account:
Univ. Heidelberg 21911 Sparkasse HD BLZ 672 500 20, Re: Skt. Summer
School S-Kto 54034, K-Stelle 97028000

Apologies for cross-postings.

--

Christoph Emmrich
Classical Indology
South Asia Institute
University of Heidelberg
Im Neuenheimer Feld 330
69120 Heidelberg - Germany
Tel.: 0049-54-6303
Fax: 0049-546338


--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Application for (please tick):
Sanskrit Summer School 2004
Sanskrit Summer School for Advanced Speakers 2004

Name:
Sex:
Age:
Nationality:
University:
Department:
Supervisor(s):
Semesters:
Subjects, courses:
Title(s):
Occupation, position:
Current project:
Modern languages:
Classical languages:
Years of Sanskrit traning, where?:
Variety of texts read:
Previous courses or practice in spoken Sanskrit: none/some, which?
Accomodation required: yes/no




From jkirk at SPRO.NET  Thu Jan 29 06:09:21 2004
From: jkirk at SPRO.NET (jkirk)
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 04 23:09:21 -0700
Subject: Plants in Health and Culture
Message-ID: <161227073816.23782.5456524470911445968.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

Dear Prof. Houben,

Any chance the papers from this provocative conference will be put
on a website?
Please advise and thanks.
Joanna Kirkpatrick
==============================
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jan E.M. Houben" <j_e_m_houben at YAHOO.COM>
To: <INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk>
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 9:19 AM
Subject: Plants in Health and Culture


> The following symposium contains two
> contributions of direct relevance to Vedic
> studies (my own and one by David S. Flattery):
> Plants in Health and Culture, Leiden, 16-17
> February. The preliminary program appears at
> www.plantsinhealthandculture.nl
>
> Those interested to attend are invited to contact
> M.Rozing at let.leidenuniv.nl
>
> With best regards,
> Jan Houben
>
>
>
> =====
> Prof. Dr. Jan E.M. Houben,
> ?cole Pratique des Hautes ?tudes,
> ? la Sorbonne,
> 45-47, rue des ?coles,
> 75005 Paris -- France.
> J_E_M_Houben at yahoo.com
> J.E.M.Houben at let.leidenuniv.nl
> Homepage: http://home.planet.nl/~j.e.m.houben
> Website: www.jyotistoma.nl
>
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From j_e_m_houben at YAHOO.COM  Thu Jan 29 15:23:07 2004
From: j_e_m_houben at YAHOO.COM (Jan E.M. Houben)
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 04 07:23:07 -0800
Subject: Plants in Health and Culture
In-Reply-To: <006501c3e62e$70291310$2930cece@charlie>
Message-ID: <161227073820.23782.1472039587962789012.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

Dear Colleague,
We plan to put only the abstracts on the website
in a few days to the extent we will have them at
our disposal. We do have the plan to publish also
the papers, not on the website but in the form of
a book or an issue of a journal.
With best regards,
Jan

--- jkirk <jkirk at SPRO.NET> wrote:
> Dear Prof. Houben,
>
> Any chance the papers from this provocative
> conference will be put
> on a website?
> Please advise and thanks.
> Joanna Kirkpatrick
> ==============================
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jan E.M. Houben"
> <j_e_m_houben at YAHOO.COM>
> To: <INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 9:19 AM
> Subject: Plants in Health and Culture
>
>
> > The following symposium contains two
> > contributions of direct relevance to Vedic
> > studies (my own and one by David S.
> Flattery):
> > Plants in Health and Culture, Leiden, 16-17
> > February. The preliminary program appears at
> > www.plantsinhealthandculture.nl
> >
> > Those interested to attend are invited to
> contact
> > M.Rozing at let.leidenuniv.nl
> >
> > With best regards,
> > Jan Houben
> >
> >
> >
> > =====
> > Prof. Dr. Jan E.M. Houben,
> > ?cole Pratique des Hautes ?tudes,
> > ? la Sorbonne,
> > 45-47, rue des ?coles,
> > 75005 Paris -- France.
> > J_E_M_Houben at yahoo.com
> > J.E.M.Houben at let.leidenuniv.nl
> > Homepage: http://home.planet.nl/~j.e.m.houben
> > Website: www.jyotistoma.nl
> >
> > __________________________________
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From Axel.Michaels at URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE  Thu Jan 29 14:54:33 2004
From: Axel.Michaels at URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (Axel Michaels)
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 04 15:54:33 +0100
Subject: Workshop on Rituals in Nepal
Message-ID: <161227073818.23782.11887742996358572992.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

Dear friends and colleagues,

this is to inform you that the 1st International Workshop on the Dynamics of Rituals is currently being organized by the Collaborative Research Centre (SFB 619) "Dynamics of Ritual" of Heidelberg University. The workshop will be held in Bhaktapur, Nepal from 23rd August until 12th September 2004 and focus on "Rituals in Nepal". For more information on the workshop, how to apply etc. please click here and look at our website. (You may also use the hyperlink: http://www.ritualdynamik.uni-hd.de/index2.htm)

With best regards,
the organisers,
Prof. Niels Gutschow, Dr. Brigitte Merz and Prof. Axel Michaels

p.s. I apologize for cross mailing.

Prof. Dr. Axel Michaels
Direktor der Abt. Klassische Indologie, Sprecher des SFB 619 (Ritualdynamik) / S?dasien-Institut der Universit?t Heidelberg / Im Neuenheimer Feld 330 / D-69120 Heidelberg / Tel. +49-6221-548917 / Fax +49-6221-548336 / www.sai.uni-heidelberg.de/abt/IND/index.html; www.ritualdynamik.uni-hd.de




From ucgadkw at UCL.AC.UK  Thu Jan 29 22:56:48 2004
From: ucgadkw at UCL.AC.UK (Dominik Wujastyk)
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 04 22:56:48 +0000
Subject: Free critical edition and text comparion tool
Message-ID: <161227073822.23782.18408139681547860313.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io>

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 08:40:59 +0000
From: "Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty
    <willard.mccarty at kcl.ac.uk>)" <willard at LISTS.VILLAGE.VIRGINIA.EDU>
To: humanist at Princeton.EDU
Subject: 17.579 Versioning Machine 2.0 released

               Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 17, No. 579.
       Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
                   www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/
                        www.princeton.edu/humanist/
                     Submit to: humanist at princeton.edu



         Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 08:31:44 +0000
         From: "Susan Schreibman" <ss423 at umail.umd.edu>
         Subject: Versioning Machine 2.0 release

Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) is delighted to
announce the 2.0 release of the Versioning Machine
http://www.mith2.umd.edu/products/ver-mach/

The Versioning Machine is software tool designed by a team of programmers,
designers, and literary scholars for displaying and comparing multiple
versions of texts. The display environment seeks not only to provide for
features traditionally found in codex-based critical editions, such as
annotation and introductory material, but to take advantage of opportunities
of electronic publishing, such as providing a frame to compare diplomatic
versions of witnesses side by side, allowing for manipulatable images of the
witness to be viewed alongside the diplomatic edition, and providing users
with an enhanced typology of notes.

VM 2.0 has significant improvements over the previous release. Previously it
was only possible to encode texts according to TEI's parallel segmentation
method. It is now possible to encode each witness as a separate document
instance. However, not all of the VM's features work using this method.

VM 2.0 also has enhanced image display features. Previously it was only
possible to view one image at a time. The Image applet now allows users to
view all the images in a witness set together. In addition, all VM features
now work in Netscape 7.0 for PC. And lastly, we have provided users with a
VM Installer based on lzPack to make the installation process easier.

We welcome your comments and feedback on this product
<ver-mach-users at dev.umd.edu>