[Y-Indology] indology and nazism

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I think that people are requesting MW to take part in political causes

because he does do that very often. Just recently, he took issue with

Rajaram on another forum on the misuse of AIT and related theories by

Christian missionaries. A few months ago, he actually authored

articles in a leftist magazine (Frontline) and some other notes in

other magazines in India that had more political content than academic

content. Even his recent 'reply' to Shrikant Talageri's book has a

special section on the political background on the controversy. (It is

not out of place to mention here that the degeneration of EJVS into a

gossipy tabloid has been facilitated by the connivance of friendly

co-editors like Madhav Deshpande. What a disappointment!). And of

course he has been a signatory (check the internet for proof) for

political campaigns against saffronization of history in India. And

yet when his support is asked to protest against the appointment of an

ignorant communist to the post of the vice chancellorship of a

Sanskrit University in India, he remains silent. He is the one who

attacked nunmerous authors unfairly in his publications before they

were even aware that someone by the name MW exists.

 

However, MW remains silent when it comes to the PRESENT misuse of

Aryan theories by Europeans. The silence here speaks more than a 1000

words. He played intense politics on the old Indology list too, thanks

to the benign patronage of Dominik Wujastyk and numerous other birds

of the same tree. And continues to do so on other forums. Witness his

sick remarks on the IndianCivilization list after the Tehelka episode

in India. Either you are unaware of his antics in totality or are

choosing to be ignorant.

 

As for Fosse, his posts are more informed by logical fallacies,

incomplete knowledge and Norwegian nationalism than with anything

else.

 

If it is OK to call your opponents 'lunatic fringe', 'lunatics',

'crooks and crazies' and so on BECAUSE they happen to be Indians or

sympathetic to India, it is also fitting to examine the ideological

motivations and psychology of the supporters of AMT / AIT. The latter

cannot maintain this facade of 'objectivity' (even if they have the

support of Indian Marxists or shameless Brown Sahibs) if they

themselves show cheap behavior which thrills only their own friends

and admirers.

 

Personally I too would like to see Professor Witzel to share his

knowledge with us and am grateful to him for his useful publications -

past and present. And I do not reject his writings just

because somwhere he speaks of Vedic tanks. However, it is unfortunate

that politics is intertwined with many of his recent works, and that

very few Indologists have the spine or the moral integrity to protest

against the degeneration of their field.

 

 

VA

 

INDOLOGY, gm@A... wrote:

> It's not about stopping Neo-Nazis using this or that symbol.

> It's about stopping the Neo-Nazis. Full stop.

> And that is a citizen's duty for which nobody has to

> stand up more than anybody else in particular.

>

> And could you please stop asking Prof. Witzel

> or anybody else for political action on an Indological

> list. There are millions of causes that are as urgent

> as the use of symbols.

> And the fact that Prof. Witzel kindly gives so much

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