Fwd: Re: [Indo-Eurasia] FW: A.K. Ramanujan's "Three Hundred Ramayanas" and "Collected Essays"

[Jean-Luc Chevillard]

Dear Liverpool Indology list members,


it is not clear to me how many of the 453 signatories of the letter 
drafted by Sheldon Pollock and sent to OUP have received a message from 
Rachel Goode (as Joanna Kirpatrick has).
[I don't think I received anything]

I believe the members of Liverpool Indology
who were signatories of the protest letter but have not been directly 
informed of the recent development will be interested in seeing this,
which I forward from the Indo-Eurasian mailing list.

Best wishes


-- Jean-Luc Chevillard
(Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique [CNRS], UMR 7597 (HTL),
Université Paris-Diderot, Paris)


-------- Original Message --------

Subject: Re: [Indo-Eurasia] FW: A.K. Ramanujan's "Three Hundred
Ramayanas" and "Collected Essays"

Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2011 10:05:07 +0530

From: MANISH MODI [...]

Reply-To: Indo-Eurasian_research [...]

To: Indo-Eurasian_research [...]

Wow! Lovely! Marvelous to see this. Living in India, I had begun to 
doubt the efficacy of quiet, sensible intelligent protesting.

Manish

On 10 December 2011 07:35, Jo <[...]> wrote:


> Forwarding to the List -


> Joanna Kirkpatrick


> *****


> From: Group Communications, Oxford University Press
> Sent: Friday, December 09, 2011 9:06 AM


> Subject: A.K. Ramanujan's "Three Hundred Ramayanas" and "Collected Essays"


> We are writing to you as scholars who signed a letter addressed to Mr Nigel
> Portwood on November 28 2011. We want to make you aware of the statement
> attached to this email, which we have written to communicate our position
> regarding certain works of scholarship published by OUP India.


> Oxford University Press continues to believe that scholarly freedom is
> fundamentally important and works to uphold this principle across the
> world.
> We hope that our recent decision as outlined in our statement will
> demonstrate our commitment in this regard.


> Rachel Goode
> Group Communications Director
> Oxford University Press


> *****


> OUP Statement: December 9 2011


> We wish to communicate OUP’s position regarding three works of scholarship
> published by OUP India.


> Given the current concern expressed by members of the scholarly community
> about the availability of The Collected Essays and Many Ramayanas we have
> taken the decision to reprint both titles immediately and make them
> available in India and beyond. We are also making Questioning Ramayanas
> available again. All three titles are available to order from the OUP India
> website and bookshops across India.
> OUP has an important role to play in ensuring that the best scholarship is
> disseminated freely, and we hope the reprinting of these three important
> works will demonstrate our commitment in this regard.



> We also wish to restate the fact that OUP does not and never has
> apologised for publishing any work by Ramanujan. Any previous
> communications from OUP India that have given the impression of such an
> apology have been misinterpreted. We recognise that it is not in the best
> interests of the scholarly community of which we are a part for such a
> misinterpretation to remain, which is why we are clarifying our position
> once again.