RT @meghkalyan: "..why is there such interest in identifying versions of the text at variance from the normative one? And why do Indologist…
RT @meghkalyan: "..why is there such interest in identifying versions of the text at variance from the normative one? And why do Indologist…
"..why is there such interest in identifying versions of the text at variance from the normative one? And why do Indologists, in the name of “critical” scholarship, continue to welcome the creation of apocryphal versions of Indian texts?" Adluri Bagchee 🙏
Textual analysis (of western Indologists) is one such technique. https://t.co/iz6zCAb7ec
"credit for teaching the Indians techniques for producing fabricated texts rests squarely with the Germans." https://t.co/K0vAe4gv5m
Essential ingredients of (western) Indology "Spurious archaeology, fraudulent presentation of scripture,.." https://t.co/K0vAe4gv5m
RT @Hiranyareta: Ultimate goal of Indology thru Textual analysis of Hindu Scriptures "Reconstructing the past using projected texts"https:/…
RT @Hiranyareta: "when German Indologists from the nineteenth century onwards contested the normative form of the Bhagavadgītā,.. 1/n https…
RT @Hiranyareta: "when German Indologists from the nineteenth century onwards contested the normative form of the Bhagavadgītā,.. 1/n https…
Not God realization or Moksha https://t.co/FhD8s4CAnV
Ultimate goal of Indology thru Textual analysis of Hindu Scriptures "Reconstructing the past using projected texts"https://t.co/K0vAe4gv5m
"Schrader as a textual critic and a critic of the Gītā" https://t.co/l45coGMfiD
RT @Hiranyareta: "when German Indologists from the nineteenth century onwards contested the normative form of the Bhagavadgītā,.. 1/n https…
and thus what they did was political through and through." n/n https://t.co/l45coGMfiD
Indologists created a different source of intellectual and institutional authority, https://t.co/l45coGMfiD
By massively destabilizing the transmission of the text (as Luther in his time before them had done with the Bible), https://t.co/l45coGMfiD
but precisely to create a situation of uncertainty, in which established authorities might be discarded for new ones.https://t.co/l45coGMfiD
...they did so not in order to arrive at a more stable, more accurate reading of the text ... 2/n https://t.co/l45coGMfiD
"when German Indologists from the nineteenth century onwards contested the normative form of the Bhagavadgītā,.. 1/n https://t.co/l45coGMfiD
"Who’s Zoomin’ Who? Bhagavadgītā Recensions in India and Germany" https://t.co/K0vAe4gv5m