Academic Researchers Versus Hindu Civilisation

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indicjournalists, "gargsam" <gargsam>

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Academic Researchers Versus Hindu Civilisation

 

This interesting essay by the economist Dr Gautam Sen deconstructs

academic researchers, the modern academic system & their antipathy to

India & hinduism.

 

Sanjay

 

Academic Researchers Versus Hindu Civilisation

Dr. Gautam Sen

http://www.sulekha.com/expressions/articledesc.asp?cid=307454

 

Excerpt:

 

This discussion seeks to understand why Indian studies in the West

(especially the US and the UK) are overwhelmingly hostile to their

object of study. In the first place, ethnocentric and parochial

perceptions will usually dominate when one culture critically

evaluates another. And once the resulting interpretative canon

becomes

firmly established through common consent, prolonged practice and

appropriate imprimaturs, it becomes painfully difficult to dislodge,

even if it is motivated by an intellectually disingenuous political

rationale. In the case of the contemporary Western critique of India,

and increasingly Hinduism, its rationale and sheer perversity can be

attributed to mundane political reasons and international power

politics. In order to understand the dynamics of this phenomenon

vis-à-vis India and Hinduism one first needs to explain the role of

the academic and researcher, the intellectual entrepreneurs of

society, and their function as agents of the political objectives of

society.

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