[Y-Indology] indology and nazism

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We all have a right to be politically active,

but this is an Indology list, right?

Does it make sense to attack somebody politically

on a list which is read by a few hundred Indologists?

We are not the most powerful political forum,

don't you think?

So, go attack each other in the political media,

if you need to.

On the Indology list, let's be sportsmen and fair

to each other.

I am sure that we can agree on matters of scholarship.

Yours,

Gunthard

 

 

VAgarwalV wrote:

 

> 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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> Your use of is subject to

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INDOLOGY, gm@A... wrote:

> We all have a right to be politically active,

> but this is an Indology list, right?

 

VA: Your one sided sermonizing reveals your own allegiance to the old

boys club. Where were you when the old Indology list saw 450 posts on

the condition of science and technology in India and on the supposed

fraud? Or was that an unscholarly list?

The duplicity of Indologists no longer amazes me.

 

What do you think of the tone and tenor of MW's article in the

Frontline magazine? On other lists, people have demonstrated how the

supposed 'plant' of the telephone trough at the bottom of

the 'enhanced' image of that seal was just the invention of Professor

Vassilkov's fertile imagination, eagerly licked by a highly political

duo. What do standards of deceny demand here? Or will you ignore it

because he is a professional colleague you cannot afford to annoy?

[Guest guest]

I have replied to this mail in private.

 

VAgarwalV wrote:

 

> INDOLOGY, gm@A... wrote:

> > We all have a right to be politically active,

> > but this is an Indology list, right?

>

> VA: Your one sided sermonizing reveals your own allegiance to the old

> boys club. Where were you when the old Indology list saw 450 posts on

> the condition of science and technology in India and on the supposed

> fraud? Or was that an unscholarly list?

> The duplicity of Indologists no longer amazes me.

>

> What do you think of the tone and tenor of MW's article in the

> Frontline magazine? On other lists, people have demonstrated how the

> supposed 'plant' of the telephone trough at the bottom of

> the 'enhanced' image of that seal was just the invention of Professor

> Vassilkov's fertile imagination, eagerly licked by a highly political

> duo. What do standards of deceny demand here? Or will you ignore it

> because he is a professional colleague you cannot afford to annoy?

>

>

> indology

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> Your use of is subject to