The Battle for Sanskrit is Sanskrit Political or Sacred Oppressive or Liberating Dead or Alive (Record no. 296761)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9789352641819
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 491.2 MAL-B
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Rajiv Malhotra
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title The Battle for Sanskrit is Sanskrit Political or Sacred Oppressive or Liberating Dead or Alive
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. [New Delhi] India
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. HarperCollins Publishers
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2016
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xviii, 468 pages ; 22 cm
505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note Introduction: the story behind the book -- The hijacking of Sanskrit and Sanskriti -- From European Orientalism to American Orientalism -- The obsession with secularizing Sanskrit -- Sanskrit considered a source of oppression -- Ramayana framed as socially irresponsible -- Politicizing Indian literature -- Politicizing the history of Sanskrit and the vernaculars -- The Sanskriti Web as an alternative hypothesis -- Declaring Sanskrit dead and Sanskriti non-existent -- Is Sheldon Pollock too big to be criticized? -- Conclusion: the way forward -- APPENDICES: Pollock's theory of Buddhist undermining of the Vedas -- Ramayana evidence prior to the Turkish invasion -- Pollock's political activism -- Acknowlegements -- Editorial policies adopted.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. There is a new awakening in India that is challenging the ongoing Westernization of the discourse about India. Battle for Sanskrit seeks to alert traditional scholars of Sanskrit and sanskriti-Indian civilization-concerning an important school of thought that has its base in the US and that has started to dominate the discourse on the cultural, social and political aspects of India. The scholars of this field hold that many Sanskrit texts are socially oppressive and serve as political weapons in the hands of the ruling elite; that the sacred aspects need to be refuted; and that Sanskrit has long been dead. The traditional Indian experts would outright reject or at least question these positions. Is each view exclusive of the other, or can there be a bridge between them?
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Sanskrit philology. India -- Study and teaching. India -- Civilization.
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Koha item type Book
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        Dept. of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Dept. of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Processing Center 18/07/2018   491.2 MAL-B DCB3456 18/07/2018 18/07/2018 Book