Dear Matthew,

Very well said. Right to the point.

Cheers,

Greg Bailey

On 5/08/16 6:53 PM, "INDOLOGY on behalf of Matthew Kapstein"
<indology-bounces@list.indology.info on behalf of mkapstei@uchicago.edu>
wrote:

>Dear friends,
>
>I have not wanted to wade into this quagmire, but one aspect of the
>debate I find so pernicious
>that it requires some further comment.
>
>What we see emerging in some of these reviews and essays
>is an "us versus them" mentality that places the traditional
>scholar/adhik?r? on one

>side of the equation and the contemporary/Western scholar on the other.
>This is a complete travesty in
>the face of over two centuries of fruitful collaboration between
>traditionally educated Sanskrit experts and
>scholars formed in modern philology. Both sides have grown and been
>nurtured by their interactions with
>the other. For those whose wish to hold that traditionally formed
>scholars have lived in a sort of intellectual
>autarchy in which "outsiders" have nothing of value or interest to
>contribute, I suggest a close reading
>of the works of the likes of Bhandarkar, Ganganath Jha, V. Raghavan,
>Narendra Dev, etc., etc. etc. The
>examples may be multiplied almost without limit. Unfortunately, what
>seems to be occurring is not only
>an intellectually irresponsible disparagement of Euro-American
>scholarship, but perhaps even more
>troubling, a near complete amnesia with respect to the history of modern
>Indian scholarship in Sanskrit studies.
>
>
>Matthew Kapstein
>Directeur d'études,
>Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes
>
>Numata Visiting Professor of Buddhist Studies,
>The University of Chicago
>
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