Almost NO Indian or Iranian scholars active in IE linguistics

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Almost NO Indian or Iranian scholars active in IE linguistics

 

Inspite of the follwing pronuncement by Sir William Jones, considered

to be one of the pillars of IE linguistics

 

"The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful

structure; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin,

and more exquisitely refined than either, yet bearing to both of them

a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs and in the forms of

grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident; so strong

indeed, that no philologer could examine them all three, without

believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps,

no longer exists: there is a similar reason, though not quite so

forcible, for supposing that both the Gothic and the Celtic, though

blended with a very different idiom, had the same origin with the

Sanskrit; and the old Persian might be added to the same family, if

this were the place for discussing any question concerning the

antiquities of Persia."

 

and given the fact the Vedic tradition is the oldest surviving IE

tradition, with the Iranians not far behind, there are NO Indian or

Iranian scholars listed on the IE linguistic webpage maintained by

Univ Texas Austin.

 

<http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/lrc/jies/jies_index/journal-index.html>

 

Over last thirty years only ONE Indian author (G. D. Kumar) and NO

Iranian authors, that I could recognize, have contributed to the

Journal of Indo European Studies!

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INDOLOGY, "mkelkar2003" <smykelkar@c...> wrote:

>

> and given the fact the Vedic tradition is the oldest surviving IE

> tradition, with the Iranians not far behind, there are NO Indian or

> Iranian scholars listed on the IE linguistic webpage maintained by

> Univ Texas Austin.

>

> <http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/lrc/jies/jies_index/journal-

index.html>

>

> Over last thirty years only ONE Indian author (G. D. Kumar) and NO

> Iranian authors, that I could recognize, have contributed to the

> Journal of Indo European Studies!

 

I found all of the following names listed on the webpage you

cite above. Are they not Indian?

 

D. P. Agrawal

Kamaleswar Bhattacharya

Madhav M. Deshpande

Pramod B. Gadre

Pramila Hemrajani

Hundirapola Ratanajoti

R. Panikkar

Subhadra Kumar Sen

 

There is also listed a Mohammad Ali Jazayery, who I'm pretty

sure is an Iranian.

 

David W.