[INDOLOGY] Article about the politics surrounding indology at the IHRC

[Howard Resnick]

As we know, Arya is a Vedic term. In the Telegraph article, Bharadwaj states that he wants to research the notion of Aryan migration. Bharadwaj does not state that he takes ‘Aryan’ as a racial, rather than a cultural, term. So please help me here. Where is the racism?

Thanks,
Howard


> On Jun 8, 2015, at 5:04 PM, Geoffrey Samuel <SamuelG at cardiff.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> If you read Dilip Chakrabarti's comment as quoted in the Telegraph article, what he was actually saying was that the concept of Aryans was 'racist and historically puerile' and that research on it was therefore a waste of resources in comparison with other possible uses - he specifically referred to training more palaeographers and epigraphists, 'who will soon be an extinct class of scholars in the country'.
> 
> That seems a reasonable and defensible position.
> 
> Geoffrey
> From: INDOLOGY <indology-bounces at list.indology.info <mailto:indology-bounces at list.indology.info>> on behalf of Howard Resnick <hr at ivs.edu <mailto:hr at ivs.edu>>
> Sent: 08 June 2015 09:12
> To: Dominik Wujastyk
> Cc: Indology List
> Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] Article about the politics surrounding indology at the IHRC
>  
> "Dilip K. Chakrabarti, emeritus professor of South Asian archaeology with Cambridge University and a member of the council and its research project committee, said the proposal was "racist and historically puerile”.
> 
> How racist?
> 
> h.r.
> 
> 
>> On Jun 8, 2015, at 11:00 AM, Dominik Wujastyk <wujastyk at gmail.com <mailto:wujastyk at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> 
>> http://www.telegraphindia.com/1150606/jsp/nation/story_24264.jsp <http://www.telegraphindia.com/1150606/jsp/nation/story_24264.jsp>
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