[INDOLOGY] The Repression of Religious Studies / Wendy Doniger, in the Chronicle of Higher Ed. for 20 April 2016

[Dominik Wujastyk]

*The Chronicle of Higher Education*



*The Repression of Religious Studies Wendy Doniger20 April 2016*
In 2015, Harvard University Press began to publish the Murty Classical
Library of India, a series of editions and translations of texts in a wide
range of Indian languages, under the direction of Sheldon Pollock,
professor of South Asian studies at Columbia University. In February, 2016,
132 academics in India petitioned to have Pollock removed as general
editor. They were raising their voices not as subject experts — many were
scientists or doctors lacking competence to judge humanistic scholarship —
but as Hindus. Why did Hindus in India care what a publisher in
Massachusetts was doing? Because Hindus in America cared, and they had sent
word to India to raise the alarm there, too.
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Read the full article here:

   - http://chronicle.com/article/The-Repression-of-Religious/236166


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