[INDOLOGY] intensive course on grammar and poetics

[George Hart]

I wonder whether I am the only one on this list who finds the title of this course misleading.  The course deals with Sanskrit and only Sanskrit, which is, of course, fine.  But by titling itself “Intensive Course on Indian Grammar and Poetics,” it slights the many other grammatical and poetic traditions of India and may mislead students and others into thinking Sanskrit is the only language in which such traditions exist.  The truth is quite different, of course.  The Dravidian languages (and, I believe many of the Indo-Aryan languages) all have extremely rich traditions, both grammatical and poetic.  It is quite important, I believe, to study these traditions.  They are often radically different from Sanskrit (Tamil).  And even when the Sanskrit traditions are tapped, as in the Malayalam Līlātilakam, there are significant differences.  Sanskrit studies have suffered in the past by neglecting the other languages and traditions of South Asia, in my opinion.  George 


On Jul 5, 2014, at 4:04 PM, Andrey Klebanov <andra.kleb at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear members of the list,
> 
> I would like to kindly draw your attention to the two-week "Intensive Course on Indian Grammar and Poetics" to be taught by Dr. SLP Anjaneya Sarma (EFEO Pondicherry) at the University of Hamburg on September 15th to 26th (2014).
> 
> You can find the complete description of the course as well as the online registration form (the application is now open) on the site of the department for Indian and Tibetan Studies here:
> http://www.aai.uni-hamburg.de/indtib/icigp2014.html
> 
> In case you are teaching at an institution, please, circulate this information among your students.
> 
> with best wishes and apologies for cross-posting,
> Andrey Klebanov
> 
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