From: Brian M. Scott
Message: 31254
Date: 2004-02-28
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "wtsdv" <liberty@...>
> wrote:
>> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "mkelkar2003"
>> <smykelkar@...> wrote:
>>> and given the fact the Vedic tradition is the oldest
>>> surviving IE tradition, with the Iranians not far
>>> behind, there are NO Indian or Iranian scholars listed
>>> on the IE linguistic webpage maintained by Univ Texas
>>> Austin.
>>> <http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/lrc/jies/jies_index/journal-
>>> index.html>
>>> Over last thirty years only ONE Indian author (G. D.
>>> Kumar) and NO Iranian authors, that I could recognize,
>>> have contributed to the Journal of Indo European
>>> Studies!
>> I found all of the following names listed on the webpage
>> you cite above. Are they not Indian?
>> D. P. Agrawal
>> Kamaleswar Bhattacharya
>> Madhav M. Deshpande
>> Pramod B. Gadre
>> Pramila Hemrajani
>> Hundirapola Ratanajoti
>> R. Panikkar
>> Subhadra Kumar Sen
>> There is also listed a Mohammad Ali Jazayery, who I'm
>> pretty sure is an Iranian.
> Well, I did not find Ratanajoti under R. I believe
> Panikkar is German.
> Bhattacharya, Gadre, and Sen published in the dark ages of
> the standard Aryan Invasion model tiptoing colonial
> scholarship. Therefore they don't count.
> Deshpande is an iffy. The one article he wrote in 1997
> talks about indigenization of Aryans. Same old stuff. Does
> not count either.
> Hemarajani is writing about "3 kisses". Who knows what
> that is. Unimportant.
> D. P. Agrawal is the only good one. But that is after the
> recent hue and cry raised by the archeological and
> geological finds. Its reactionary. Hence does not count
> also.
> In any case these are minor contributors that do not find honorable
> mention on the front page of IMPORTANT scholars.
> <http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/lrc/iedocctr/ie-pubs/ie-pubs.html>
> I dont see many Indians contributing on the pieml and cybalist.