[tied] Re: Fwd: Aryans - Summarizing Asko Parpola's views

From: naga_ganesan@...
Message: 11072
Date: 2001-11-06

Besides Walther Wust, a foremost expert on Indology,
famous experts of Sanskrit, Indology involved
are Dumezil, Jung, Eliade, ...

--- In cybalist@..., naga_ganesan@... wrote:
> 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