Invitation for Contribution in the Volume on "Persian in Kashmir"

[Mrinal Kaul]

Dear Prof Witzel,

Thank you very much for your nice message. I am aware that you do not specialize in Persian studies, but since the mail went to the Indology common group, it was bound to come to you as well. At the same time I would like to add that if you know some potential Persianists, please forward the email to them. I shall be really grateful if you can do that for me.

Yes, after I continuously rejected three D.Phil. offers from Oxford for lack of funding, I was very much looking forward to get into some good graduate school in the States where I could learn in an intellectually elite atmosphere. But unfortunately, I finally joined Concordia University in Montreal and doing Indology at this place continues to be a worst experience ever in my life. In fact I am not sure if I would be continuing here or not. But I do welcome your offer and I do look forward cooperating with you in future even if I ultimately have to quit Indology because of lack of favourable opportunities. With my best regards.

Yours sincerely,

Mrinal Kaul   


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Mrinal Kaul
Concordia University, 
Department of Religion, FA-101
1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd West
Montreal, Quebec
CANADA H3G 1M8
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On 2010-05-09, at 7:53 AM, Michael Witzel wrote:

> Dear Mrinal,
> 
> many thanks for your kind invitation. Unfortunately, I do not specialize in Persian, so I cannot participate.
> I still regret very much that we could not accommodate you with us: too much competition. But perhaps we can cooperate in the future, e.g. on Pandits' rituals:  how do you keep up with them outside Kashmir proper?
> 
> With my best wishes,
> 
> M. WItzel
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On May 8, 2010, at 11:59 PM, Mrinal Kaul wrote:
> 
>> THE HARABHATTA SHASTRI
>> INDOLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE
>> 
>> # 37/4 Pandoka Colony
>> Paloura, Jammu - 181121
>> Jammu & Kashmir, India
>> email: harbhattashastri at gmail.com
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> May 08, 2010
>> 
>> 
>> Dear Friends,
>> 
>> We are planning to bring out a volume focusing the contribution of Kashmirian Persianists to the Persian literature. This volume, as we are planning it to be, will serve as an encyclopaedic manual on "Kashmiri Persian scholars and their Works". We invite an original and highly critical piece of essay written in English by you to be included in the volume. We also encourage you to circulate this letter amongst your colleagues who you think are capable of contributing to this volume.
>> 
>> 1. The formal deadline for submission is decided to be 31 December 2010. But since I am looking after the project, I would say that I am ready to offer any contributor ample time as far as the contribution is an original research article. The articles should certainly be unpublished.
>> 
>> 2. There are no hard and fast rules about the length of contributions. We will not mind a hard core critically researched paper either of one page or hundred pages. I am just concerned about originality and quality.
>> 
>> 3. All the papers should be submitted computer typewritten in a proper scholarly format with a detailed bibliography and a personal introduction of the contributor.
>> 
>> A PDF copy of the letter is enclosed herewith for the circulation in your department, university, institute or scholarly organization. I am quite hopeful that you will try to contribute for the said volume. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions. With my best regards.
>> 
>> Yours sincerely,
>> 
>> 
>> (Mrinal Kaul)
>> 
>> A/p Concordia University
>> Department of Religion, FA-101
>> 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd West
>> Montreal, Quebec
>> CANADA H3G 1M8
>> Cell: +1-514-8028228
>> e-mail: mrinal.kaul at stx.oxon.org
> 
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> <www.fas.harvard.edu/~witzel/mwpage.htm>
> 
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> 
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