[INDOLOGY] A regressive face of Indology at the World Sanskrit Conference

[Deepak Sarma]

All:
	While this may be new to the Indology forum and the WSC, similar issues have plagued the Religion in South Asia (RISA) section of the American Academy of Religion since the mid 1990s. Scholars and non-scholars, insiders and outsiders, adhikarin and anadhikarin behaved poorly and poisoned what was a relatively good, congenial, and fruitful samvada. Alas.

	By way of the Doniger affair, some may find this short piece that I wrote in 2014 to be provocative and germane. 

https://www.academia.edu/9579907/The_Doniger_Difficulty_Colonial_Cotton_and_Swadeshi_Sensibilities

I hope that Indology, also a relatively good, congenial, and fruitful samvada is not spoiled, as was RISA and its E-list counterpart, RISA-L.

respectfully,

Deepak

Dr. Deepak Sarma

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> 
> Am Mi., 15. Aug. 2018 um 04:43 Uhr schrieb Nagaraj Paturi via INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info>:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_p5QcHyGSrc&feature=youtu.be
> 
> On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 5:45 PM, Audrey Truschke via INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
> Dear Friends and Colleagues,
> 
> This article, by Professor Vajpeyi, is a must-read. For many on this list, it will not be news that Indology has entrenched problems with sexism and elitism; many in our discipline are also soft on Hindutva. For others, some or all of these things may be surprising.
> 
> I encourage everyone to read with an open mind, rather than with a posture of umbrage and denial that has become all-too-common these days. As Professor Vajpeyi describes, the reception of the public forum at the 17th World Sanskrit Conference in Vancouver was an appalling display of unprofessionalism, misogyny, and class privilege, a "regressive face of Indology." My friends - We need to ask ourselves some tough questions about what sorts of prejudices and behaviours we are tolerating and harboring in our corner of the scholarly world. We tend to be quite good at exercising a critical gaze when it comes to mimamsa, kavya, and so forth. I hope we can do the same with ourselves.
> 
> All the Best,
> 
> Audrey
> 
> Audrey Truschke
> Assistant Professor
> Department of History
> Rutgers University-Newark
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> BoS, MIT School of Vedic Sciences, Pune, Maharashtra
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> BoS, Chinmaya Vishwavidyapeeth, Veliyanad, Kerala
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> Former Senior Professor of Cultural Studies
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> FLAME School of Communication and FLAME School of  Liberal Education,
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> BoS, Chinmaya Vishwavidyapeeth, Veliyanad, Kerala
> 
> Former Senior Professor of Cultural Studies
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