Re: [tied] Re: Almost NO Indian or Iranian scholars active in IE li

At 11:56:55 PM on Friday, February 27, 2004, mkelkar2003
wrote:

> --- 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.

Lehmann, W. P. & Ratanajoti Hundirapola (1975). Typological
Syntactical Characteristics of the Shatapathabra:hmana.

> 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.

Your claim was that there were no Indian scholars listed on
the site; if these are Indian, they count, irrespective of
their views or when they worked.

> Deshpande is an iffy. The one article he wrote in 1997
> talks about indigenization of Aryans. Same old stuff. Does
> not count either.

Is he Indian? Then he counts, whether you like his views or
not. The same goes for the rest.

Brian