[Y-Indology] De-Essentializing the 'Eastern Wisdom'.

[Guest guest]

>Rajiv Malhotra wrote:

 

>QUESTION: Using Fosse's A & B criteria (which denies any political or

>ideological basis for scholarship), on what basis does the western

>market 'eat' up the heavily funded scholarship on: sati, dowry

>deaths, caste, and other 'essentializing' in academic vogue?

 

Checkout..

 

http://www1.shore.net/~india/ejvs/issue2/index.html#internet

 

Scroll down to "Conference on Dowry and Bride Burning, planned for

early October 1995, at Harvard."

 

How about organizing a 2002 Chennai conference on western child sex

abuse? Let us put up a proposal. More innocent and helpless children

are abused and they take to pills in the west (several in my

neighbrohood), due to divorces and abandonment, and most are

unrecorded; than the notorious arranged marriage system of India

which only abuses "adult females" who can decide things for

themselves in most situations; whereas the abused children don't even

know what is happening to them or their rights, let alone talk about

it.

 

Regards

Bhadraiah