Great thread!
But I partly get the gripes of the Hindus here
We are emotionally invested in Sanskrit as the great liturgical language + carrier of Indian intellectual traditions
For rest of the world, Sanskrit is more interesting as the oldest extant Ianguage of IE family
But I partly get the gripes of the Hindus here
We are emotionally invested in Sanskrit as the great liturgical language + carrier of Indian intellectual traditions
For rest of the world, Sanskrit is more interesting as the oldest extant Ianguage of IE family
I don't think the twain shall ever meet.
For the West, that is twice removed from India intellectually first through Christianity and second through Enlightenment - Indian intellectual traditions don't matter at all!
Their interest in Sanskrit is lingual. And lingual alone
For the West, that is twice removed from India intellectually first through Christianity and second through Enlightenment - Indian intellectual traditions don't matter at all!
Their interest in Sanskrit is lingual. And lingual alone
Your average white Indologist is more animated at the prospect of using Sanskrit to recontruct the proto-language of his ancestors in the Yamnaya steppe
For Indians who don't even accept the reality that *some* of our ancestors are from the steppe, that reconstruction is moot
For Indians who don't even accept the reality that *some* of our ancestors are from the steppe, that reconstruction is moot
Where H-side goes wrong is in assuming that the PIE reconstruction urge is indicative of a supremacist urge among the indologists
No...it's not about supremacism. They couldn't care less about you. They're interested in figuring the language of *their* ancestors
Which is fair
No...it's not about supremacism. They couldn't care less about you. They're interested in figuring the language of *their* ancestors
Which is fair
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