[INDOLOGY] Statement Regarding the Murty Classical Library of India

[Jesse Knutson]

Likewise!

Jesse Knutson PhD
Professor of Sanskrit Language and Literature
Department of Indo-Pacific Languages and Literatures
University of Hawai'i, Mānoa
461 Spalding

E io ch’avea d’error la testa cinta,
dissi: «Maestro, che è quel ch’i’ odo?
e che gent’ è che par nel duol sì vinta?

Ed elli a me: «Questo misero modo
tegnon l’anime triste di coloro
che visser sanza ’nfamia e sanza lodo.

Mischiate sono a quel cattivo coro
de li angeli che non furon ribelli
né fur fedeli a Dio, ma per sé fuoro.
                    .


(Inferno 3.31-39)



On Tue, Mar 5, 2024 at 12:32 PM Lyne Bansat-Boudon via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> Dear Matthew,
>
> This an excellent initiative. You can count me among the signatories.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Lyne
>
> Lyne Bansat-Boudon
>
> Directeur d'études pour les Religions de l'Inde
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> Ecole pratique des hautes études, section des sciences religieuses
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> Membre senior honoraire de l'Institut universitaire de France
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> Matthew Kapstein via INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info>
> *Envoyé :* mardi 5 mars 2024 12:27
> *À :* Ananya Vajpeyi <vajpeyi at csds.in>
> *Cc :* Indology List <indology at list.indology.info>
> *Objet :* Re: [INDOLOGY] Statement Regarding the Murty Classical Library
> of India
>
> Unfortunately, given recent turmoil at Harvard, I do not think that the
> interim provost is likely to treat this as a priority. If those concerned,
> as many of us are, can organize a letter -writing campaign to the provost’s
> office, it may at least demonstrate that the issue is not just ignored.
>
> Matthew Kapstein
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> On Tue, Mar 5, 2024 at 12:14, Ananya Vajpeyi via INDOLOGY <
> indology at list.indology.info
> <On+Tue,+Mar+5,+2024+at+12:14,+Ananya+Vajpeyi+via+INDOLOGY+%3C%3Ca+href=>>
> wrote:
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> Dear Archana,
>
> The statement you have shared with us is distressing, for the turmoil it
> reveals behind the production of this stellar series, so important to all
> scholars of India and South Asia (not just pre modernists and
> philologists). While matters resolve themselves between the editors, the
> translators, the press, the university and the endowment -- amicably and
> constructively, it is to be hoped -- we would do well to revisit an
> important prospectus by the founding general editor of the MCLI, Sheldon
> Pollock, "What should a classical library of India be?"
>
> https://sheldonpollock.org/archive/pollock_loeb_2020.pdf
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> However many volumes have been published in the past decade, they are but
> the tip of the iceberg. Hoping fervently that all the concerned parties
> will find a way to continue making available to present and future readers
> the almost endless riches of India's multilingual textual archive in high
> quality editions and translations.
>
> Yours,
>
> Ananya.
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 4, 2024 at 9:50 PM Archana Venkatesan via INDOLOGY <
> indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
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> Dear Respected Colleagues,
>
> With apologies for cross-posting, please see the attached communication
> from the former editors of the Murty Classical Library of India.
>
> Archana
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