--- In cybalist@..., "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...> wrote:
> Dear Naga,
>
> I greatly appreciate your input here, and I would be delighted to
see the increase and progress of Dravidian studies worldwide, but the
kind of rhetoric cited below is inflammatory and should be avoided on
this list. Indologists at western univesities would be taken aback,
and with good reason. The "Aryosophy" of the Nazis took the term
"Aryan" out of its legitimate real-world context; it was given an
arbitrary fantastic meaning in the ravings of sick minds. "Sanskrit
profs" are in no way responsible for that. You might just as well
blame astronomers for Himmler's obsession with "Cosmic Ice".
>
> Piotr
>
>
Thanks. But there has been some collaboration between some
Indologists and Hitler regime.
From Indology @ Liverpool archives, an Indologist wrote:
<<
The Indologist mentioned in the PBS program is Walther Wust. The
narrator of the program comments on his speech to the SS in March,
1937, in Munich. The ideas of Wust, including the speech mentioned in
the PBS program, are discussed in pp. 89-91 of:
Pollock, Sheldon. 1993. Deep Orientalism?: Notes on Sanskrit and
Power Beyond the Raj. In Orientalism and the Postcolonial Predicament:
Perspectives on South Asia, eds. Carol A. Breckenridge and Peter van
der Veer, 77-133. South Asia Seminar Series. Philadelphia: University
of Pennsylvania Press. Papers presented at the 44th Annual South Asia
Seminar held at the University of Pennsylvania, 1988/1989.
>>
There was mention by Indologists incl. pof. de Jong to delve
deep into the subject. Hope someone will do a monograph-length
study.
Maurice Oleander, Languages of Paradise,
Leon Poliakov, The Aryan myth,
Regards,
N. Ganesan