RE:On Beef Eating in Ancient India
by dhanraj on Jun 21, 2007 09:39 PM Permalink
It is necessary to bear in mind that none of the above scholars had anything to do with Marxism which the saffronised journalists and publicists like Arun Shourie have been fighting through the columns of the Asian Age. Wilson was the first occupant of the Chair of Sanskrit at Oxford in 1832 and was not as avowedly anti-Indian as many other imperialist scholars. Mitra, a product of the Bengal renaissance and a close associate of Rabindranaths elder brother Jyotindranath Tagore, made significant contribution to India's intellectual life, and was described by Max Mueller as the best living Indologist of his time. Mahamahopdhyaya P.V. Kane was a conservative Marathi brahmin and the only Sanskritist to be honoured with the title of 'Bharat Ratna'.
The Sangh Parivar (including, of course, Arun Shourie who feels quite comfortable in his blissful ignorance!) have never turned its guns towards their writings. One is tempted to imagine that it consists of total ignoramuses who are made to carry a heavy burden of civilisational illiteracy and stupid arrogance by their pontiffs.
