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By: Ari Saja
January 16, 2007
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Indology Researchers are in a tizzy because universities at
Cambridge, England, and
Berlin, Germany have shut down their Indology programs. The chatter
between the self-proclaimed World Authorities on Indology is most
instructive in this regard. Here is one of their stars, an Associate in
Economics at a college in New South Wales, Australia, coming up with a
grand economic program to revive their past glory:
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In
Indo-Eurasian_research@yahoogroups.com,
Sudha Shenoy ...> wrote: Let me rush in straight away ( 'fools..') What
are the chances of an endowed lectureship /instructorship? (to put it no
higher). With the rise in the number of really wealthy Indian businessmen,
& with their ranks increasing, there should be one or two, at least, who
have simple education/research in mind, & not propaganda??? Or what about
large firms who now do more business with India??
I know that
others on the List have had experience with wealthy NRIs. This is,
however, a very specifc issue, & a purely educational one. Quite possibly
there might be some interest there??
Sudha R Shenoy
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Indo-Eurasian_research/message/5602 Dec.
8, 2006”
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A
brilliant idea that the Assistant Moderator of the forum enthusiastically
endorsed, along with an exhortation to “raise hell”.
Background of this Worthy Cause
University administrators have been commended for
striving to race at glacial pace towards the 20th century by ending the
Indology charade. "Indology" as practiced by said World Authorities, is
the abuse and denial of ancient Indian traditions, and personal abuse
directed against any researcher who dares to do honest research on ancient
India.
Those who have patience to rationalize the rantings of South African
bowlers and Harvard professors, attribute this abusive behavior to the
rapid exposure of their irrelevance. Originally established by the British
colonial kleptocracy to win favors from Queen "Off With His Head!"
Elizabeth 1, Indology's raison d'etre was to defend the Holy
Imperial Timeline of western racism. In this version of "history",
Creation occurred in BCE4004, and civilization rode to India from Central
Asia via the Khyber Pass circa BCE 1500, courtesy of the ancestral Hun
cousins of British royalty. In this timeline, the Vedas and the Epics of
India had to wait to be written, until the Queen's ancestors had looted
enough books from Mediterranean monasteries to copy them in
India
- sometime during the Mughal era. The short, dark, rice-eating and passive
natives of India could surely not come up with intelligent writings
without guidance from the tall, fair and horse-riding, martial Aryans from
Europe!
Thus Indology's primary intellectual controversy as described by Harvard
University scholars, is regarding the pedigree of the animal attached to
the backsides depicted on "seals" found in the
Indus valley. The Harvard Indologists claim
expert familiarity with the posterior views, leaving no doubt that they
are asses. Indian researchers point to the vast ancient lore on horses.
With the advent of researchers who have not been lobotomized at Oxford or
in the Brown Sahib schools of India, uncomfortable questions have
persisted on how the "Aryans" are supposed to have come down the Khyber
Pass in their horse-drawn chariots, and why they felt compelled to settle
down and write awesome poetry and immortal epics. Inconvenient evidence
has surfaced that their cousins who went north, south and west preferred
to burn books, and were still swinging by their tails from the trees of
the
Black Forest in uber-cultured Europe when Indians were running
universities at Nalanda and Takshashila.
Aryan Tourist Theory
The
explanations from "Indology Research" are indeed hilarious, to use a word
much blessed by St. A. Farmer Himself. The "Aryan Invasion Theory", its
absurdity exposed, has now subtly morphed into "Aryan Influx Theory",
better known as "Aryan Tourist Theory". Adam and Eve have now moved their
Garden of Eden from Paris down to Israel to Iraq and now to South Africa,
though more inconvenient evidence has surfaced recently of early humans in
Australia. A single-point, unique origin of the human species is of course
central to the Creationist / Scientologist tribes behind the Harvard
school.
The migration
to
India
is now explained as Adam and Eve being woken up by the racket from Mount
Kilimanjaro erupting, so that they sprinted, apple in hand and pet serpent
in tow, along the shores of Lake Tanganyka, down the Nile valley, and
across the Suez. Or perhaps they strolled across the
Red Sea, conveniently parted. They then ambled across
Saudi
Arabia, Iraq and Iran, on across the Afghan plateau to Bagaram Air Force
Base outside Kabul, and then hitched a ride in horse-drawn chariots down
the
Khyber Pass,
and didn't stop rolling until they got to
East Bengal.
Loose Foundations and
Lost Furniture
As Indology's intellectual foundations proved to
be as loose as its standards of intellectual integrity and general level
of house-training, charitable Foundations stopped wasting money on the
snake-oil purveyors occupying the Endowed Chairs of Indology departments.
Cambridge closed down theirs a few months ago.
Berlin
has now shocked Indology - the Reich disowning Aryanship!
Professor N.S. Rajaram, published a recent
article titled “Indology must change with the times”[1]. Ironically, it
was in “The Hindu”, whose Editors have in the past been the obligingly
uncritical patsies for the obnoxious rants and utterly unprofessional
personal abuse by Indologists. Rajaram calmly lays it out:
“Indologists'
role as interpreters of India ended with independence in 1947, but many
Indologists, especially in the West, failed to see it. .. today, six
decades later, … No one in the West today looks to Indology departments
for advice on matters relating to
India when they can get it from their next-door neighbour or an
office colleague.”
So the Indologists are now considering new
sources of revenue. Their contempt for those whom they plan to milk, truly
has to be read to be believed.
Rob The Rich and Feed the
Poor, And We ARE the Poor!
Here is the same
Dr. Sudha Shenoy
of University of Newcastle, on why Americans are too stupid to keep
Indians in their appointed station in life, from another post on the same
forum:
Before
1947, US immigration policies were so restrictive, barely a handful of
Indians got in. The tiny quotas were filled for years, even a decade
ahead.
Indian (& Asian) immigration could take off from the later 1960s onwards,
because immigration regulations now allowed in migrants with technical
skills. Hence the huge numbers of technically highly trained Indians in
the US. Business migrants were also now allowed in.
In both groups, many came from Indian backgrounds where they learned
English as a necessary tool only, & had little or no contact with the
wider culture, literature, etc. So they have an excellent technical
training/business acumen, but hardly any wider _education. Naturally they
take in Hindutva doctrines completely uncritically: they do not have the
foundations to even recognise that such notions have to be considered
sceptically. " – Sudha Shenoy
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So now Dr.
Shenoy comes at us with her vast intellectual superiority and
"Upstairs/Downstairs" sense of the Proper Place of Indians, born perhaps
of her lineage of servants of the British Imperial Masters. She dearly
hopes to find some of these rich, technically educated but uncultured
Hindoos, stupid enough to endow furniture for her ilk.
Professor Michael Witzel of Harvard University is
the self-appointed Fuhrer on all things related to India, Hinduism,
Sanskrit, Californian middle-school curricula, the inferiority of Indians
in general and IIT-educated people in particular, the low moral standards
of Indian-American Hindu daughters who learn traditional dance, saving NRI
women like a latter-day Phineas Fogg, and all else. He explained all about
the same Indian and Indian-Americans whom they now plan to relieve of
their money. Herr Witzel is to academia what formerly (Hon) U.S. Senator
George "macaca" Allen is to politics. Here (see inset) is Herr Witzel's
own immortal Post Number 2300, on the "Indo-Eurasian Research" forum,
which over 3000 intelligent people saw
for what it is:
a racist hate forum hiding behind ivy-covered walls.
Message in IER Yahoogroup # 2300
[mod's note: While it still
is weekend here, let us continue with such slightly off-topic
discussions, but revert to straight-forward research on Monday.
Nevertheless, as it sheds some light on the background of this thread,
read this:]
“The Hindus in
North America
( HINAs) are not just hiina, "lost, abandoned", but they
(understandably) cling to their homeland in all manners they can come
up with. "Reforming" our schoolbooks according to an imagined Golden
Age (Ram Raj), hoary India is just one of the expressions we can
observe.
They also tell their daughters to study Classical Indian dance (not
exactly a highly regarded occupation back home), they build many
temples and have Sunday schools (as many other ethnicities do). But,
they hardly invest in Higher Education as other successful Asians have
done. Nor allow their children to study items outside Law or Medicine,
such as Indian Studies, --- the only way that members of their group
could speak with real authority (for example, in school books).
However, as they are NRIs ("non returning Indians", as I just learned
from a Hindi movie), they have begun ---as an old, very conservative
US Brahmin friend pointed out to me already in 1994—building
crematoria as well.
And see that they children marry within the local caste of origin
(preferably, as per advertisement, of "fair' or "wheatish" color), if
necessary imported out of India. (I have represented in court for one
unfortunate victim of such a cross-cultural RNI-Indian marriage).
Or at least, they look for a spouse within the same general Indian
caste (jaati), or worse, class (varna), or worst, among any Indians.
They have seen too many of their children marry US people (whether of
other Asian or of European descent; Blacks seem unthinkable). And
loose their Hinduism, which second generation people just understand
as "boaring rituals" (puja, etc.), temple visits and Indian
(mythological) comic books ...
All such items add to the heady brew that we have seen emerging
here...
Cheers, MW
Michael Witzel
Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies, Harvard University
1 Bow Street , 3rd floor, Cambridge MA 02138
1-617-495 3295 Fax: 496 8571
direct line: 496 2990
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~witzel/mwpage.htm"
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Witzel,
Farmer and Shenoy have every reason to be optimistic. There are, indeed,
desis wealthy enough to fund them to their heart's desire. Worse, they
would happily fund their agenda of hurting India, Indians, and
specifically, the little children in California, Texas, and everywhere
else, who come crying home asking why their classmates poke fun at their
most treasured beliefs. A worthy California philanthropist who is
prominent in the Coalition Against Communalism (CAC) comes to mind. He
also just happens to work with the (oh so non-communal!) Indian Muslim
Council of USA [3],
and with the Friends of South Asia (FOSA), which Pakistani news media have
described as being sponsored by the Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence
outfit that created Al Qaeda, and a host of other such organizations. This
worthy has been spending the past months doing Houdini-like contortions on
the Pan-IIT discussion forum, heroically articulating the causes of the
Marxist Communist and Pakistani ISI patrons of FOSA like a true Comrade.
This is after the FOSA tried filing an amicus curiae brief against Hindu
Americans who protested the crooked goings-on of the California State
Education Board, and the judge told them the "amicus" was entirely
one-sided, and decided that they had no locus standi, to use another Latin
phrase for "tossed out summarily"
Elsewhere,
rich desis in Atlanta are falling into the trap of funding an Endowed
Chair in the Emory College, most recognized for its Professor Paul "Limp
Paulus" Courtright, the author of "Ganesa: Lord of Obstacles". This is one
of the most famous intellectual products of Indology/South Asia Studies
(in the sense that Saddam Hussein and Abu Ghraib are "famous"), where the
most treasured beliefs and traditions of Hinduism are grotesquely twisted
into "psycho-analyses" based on fantasies of child pornography. As an
instance of Emory's intellectual gems, a child asking for a lollipop is
interpreted by Emory faculty as a clear request for oral sex. One wonders
if the new Chair will be called the " Limp Paulus XXX Chair of Kiddie Porn
Bigotry" in honor of Professor Courtright's seminal work. Citizens who
exposed Emory's "intellectual standards" are still being busily abused as
"academic terrorists" by the Emory gang, notably by Courtright and an
Emory junior faculty member associated with conversions in troubled
Jharkand. This last worthy advises citizens to be more "tolerant" towards
such bigoted "scholarly interpretations" of their sacred beliefs and
traditions. Those Atlanta philanthropists rushing to buy furniture for
Emory are probably too busy to see beyond the invitations to seminars
(parties) and Cultural Nites with pooh-bahs wearing high-sounding academic
titles, and are hence oblivious of the mediaeval agendas of bigotry at
such Schools of 'Divinity' and 'Religion Studies'. Thus they should be
obvious suckers for the Indology Chair too.
The
ill-concealed "Rob the Rich and Feed the Poor, And We ARE the Poor"
condescension of Shenoy and Witzel towards India, Indians and
Indian-Americans is standard fare at Indo-Euracist forums. Some of their
gems appear to have been preserved at the "IRFFAN" blogspot [4], IRFFAN
declares itself to be a Fan Club for Witzel's Indology forum, with
"occupation" listed as "Admiring Indo-Eurasian Researchers". From the
sheer size of the blog, it is evident that there is much to "admire" about
Dr. Shenoy, Dr. Witzel, and their merry band.
Three cheers
to hoping that desi-Endowed Chairs in Indology Studies at Berlin U. will
not be greatly delayed. Dr. Shenoy modestly aims "to put it no higher",
the campaign at a "lecturer-instructor level". That would, coincidentally
of course, fit positions for which she might qualify at the less demanding
institutions.
Please
observe desis donating generously to the Indology chair cause. What's a
circus without the comic relief?
Ari
Saja
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Notes:
[1] N.S.
Rajaram, “Indology must change with the times”. The Hindu, January 7,
2007.
http://www.hindu.com/op/2007/01/07/stories/2007010700601400.htm
[2] An
internet petition started by Harvard alumni drew over 3100 signatures,
agreeing that Harvard is sheltering and fomenting hate and just plain poor
standards in the guise of the "IndoEurasian Research Forum" which is run
under an official Harvard affiliation.
[3] Indian
Muslim Council Website.
http://www.imc-usa.org/cgi-bin/cfm/weeklyDigest.cfm?WDID=102
[4]
http://irffanclub.blogspot.com/
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