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

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...> wrote:

> 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.
>
>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.

I said almost no. Citing extremly few (compared to the Europeans)
Indian sounding names and, those too from the seventies, just proves
my point. Indian scholars of Sanskrit have a genuine disdain for IE
linguistics. Read the following if you want to know why:

"Panini's Grammar, Sayanacharya's Vedic Bhashyas

& Michael Witzel's `Philology'" V. Swaminathan

<http://www.bharatvani.org>

> 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