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IndianCivilization@yahoogroups.com, "vishalsagarwal
<vishalsagarwal@...>" <vishalsagarwal@...> wrote:
I would like to draw the attention of list members to the forthcoming
issue of the Journal of Indo-European Studies (Winter 2002) whose
contents are currently available online at
http://drriley.mypcr.com/JIES.html
Subsequently to my discovery of this URL, I wrote to Dr. Kazanas
informing him of the allegations of racist and white supermacist
sources of funding
of this journal (or at least, the widespread allegations to this
effect, available on credible websites) and the alleged links of its
founder
and founder editor to anti-Semitism. This is something that the long
time members and editors and associates of the hournal, such as
Stefan Zimmer, Mallory etc., could not be ignorant of. Dr. Kazanas
was unaware of all this, since he started contributing to the journal
quite recenly.
Dr. Kazanas also informed me that Mallory had earlier promised that
he would ask 5 Indians and 5 non-Indians to review the article, but
later went back on his word and asked 8 non-Indians and 1 Indian to
write comments on the same (see his lead article at the URL above)
without informing Dr. Kazanas.
As a result of this breach of trust, Dr. Kazanas has written to
Mallory informing him that he WILL NOT write his final reply to the
reviewers, and that he is retracting another article that he had
submitted for publication in another subsequent issue of the JIES.
The list members must note that none of the more experienced and
balanced South Asian archaeologists were asked to review the article,
the reviews are all one sided, and some (like that of German scholar
Stefan Zimmer) plain abuse. Elena Kuzmina is the most brash supporter
of Aryan invasion theories even to this day, D P Agrawal is somewhat
of an oddity in the Indian Archaeology establishment in his continued
support to crypto Invasionist scenarios (and is widely known within
India for his leftist-sublaternist affiliations).
Parpola is a multiple invasionist as is well known, and a darling of
Dravidian chauvinists. Bryant is somewhat balanced, although he
refrains for castigating his benefactor at Harvard for blatantly
inappropriate comments. Meadow has already shown his prejudices by
openly supporting Indian marxists such as Thapar and the 'secular
RSS' (R S Sharma) and by calling South Asian writings as tainted
with 'flights of fancy', IN PRINT. In other words, the collection
of 'reviews' is just another kangaroo court, published in a journal
alleged to be associated with white supermacism and racism.
Sincerely,
Vishal Agarwal
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