[INDOLOGY] Against the petition against Prof. Pollock

Sun Feb 28 05:40:36 UTC 2016

This appears to be the article that Matthew referred to. I missed it the first time around.
http://swarajyamag.com/culture/american-orientalism-as-the-new-macaulayism-and-what-we-need-to-do-about-it
Best,
Dean

      From: Matthew Kapstein <mkapstei at uchicago.edu>
 To: Dominik Wujastyk <wujastyk at gmail.com>; Indology <indology at list.indology.info> 
 Sent: Saturday, February 27, 2016 9:58 PM
 Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] Against the petition against Prof. Pollock

#yiv6777814079 #yiv6777814079 --p {margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;}#yiv6777814079 #yiv6777814079 P {margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;}Dear Dominik,

Thank you for taking the care to pick this apart, but
I do not think that there is any question of "misunderstanding."

I believe that it is, rather, a manifestation of a willful misconstrual of contemporary Indology
and that we find also expressed in R. Jagannathan's "American Orientalism" piece
to which Nityanand Misra called our attention in a post to this list not long ago.

all best,
Matthew

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

Numata Visiting Professor of Buddhist Studies,
The University of Chicago

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