[INDOLOGY] (no subject)

[Lubin, Tim]

To what Steven mentioned, in re the Ramanujan case, the (Europe-based) Network of Concerned Historians made a petition in protest, which was circulated on the Indology list by Christophe Vielle:
http://list.indology.info/pipermail/indology_list.indology.info/2011-October/036075.html
Of course, as already noted, this was against his essay being dropped from the D.U. syllabus.  The SC declined to ban the essay or the book.

Tim

From: "mkapstei at UCHICAGO.EDU<mailto:mkapstei at UCHICAGO.EDU>" <mkapstei at UCHICAGO.EDU<mailto:mkapstei at UCHICAGO.EDU>>
Date: Thursday, February 20, 2014 4:14 PM
To: Steven Lindquist <slindqui at mail.smu.edu<mailto:slindqui at mail.smu.edu>>, Dominik Wujastyk <wujastyk at gmail.com<mailto:wujastyk at gmail.com>>, Indology <indology at list.indology.info<mailto:indology at list.indology.info>>
Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] (no subject)

The comment concerning Tasleema Nasreen - suggesting that those in the West stood by
because she is an author of South Asian origin - is particularly untrue. Here are
some relevant comments from her biography in the Wikipedia:

"Leaving Bangladesh towards the end of 1994, Nasrin lived in exile in Western Europe and North America for ten years. Her Bangladeshi passport had been revoked; she was granted citizenship by the Swedish government and took refuge in Germany.[11] She even had to wait for six years (1994–1999) to get a visa to visit India..."


Matthew Kapstein
Directeur d'études,
Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes

Numata Visiting Professor of Buddhist Studies,
The University of Chicago

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