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The Battle for Sanskrit is Sanskrit Political or Sacred Oppressive or Liberating Dead or Alive
There is a new awakening in India that is challenging the ongoing Westernization of the discourse about India. Battle for Sanskrit seeks to alert traditional scholars of Sanskrit and sanskriti-Indian civilization-concerning an important school of thought that has its base in the US and that has star...
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[New Delhi] India
HarperCollins Publishers
2016
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: the story behind the book
- The hijacking of Sanskrit and Sanskriti
- From European Orientalism to American Orientalism
- The obsession with secularizing Sanskrit
- Sanskrit considered a source of oppression
- Ramayana framed as socially irresponsible
- Politicizing Indian literature
- Politicizing the history of Sanskrit and the vernaculars
- The Sanskriti Web as an alternative hypothesis
- Declaring Sanskrit dead and Sanskriti non-existent
- Is Sheldon Pollock too big to be criticized?
- Conclusion: the way forward
- APPENDICES: Pollock's theory of Buddhist undermining of the Vedas
- Ramayana evidence prior to the Turkish invasion
- Pollock's political activism
- Acknowlegements
- Editorial policies adopted.