Pre-print versions (A4 format) are made available here.
While these are details of the papers selected for publication, details of the entire conference and the various video segments from SI-1 can be found here.
Sl No | Title of paper | Author | No of pages | Paper Link | PPT link | Video link |
Theme – On “Death of Sanskrit” | ||||||
1 | On “Death of Sanskrit” | Manogna Sastry | 19 | PPT | Video | |
2 | Sanskrit: the Phoenix Phenomenon | K S Kannan and Meera H R | 27 | PPT | Video | |
3 | Pollock’s hypothesis: Sanskrit is dead, and that’s ok | Naresh P Cuntoor | 28 | PPT | Video | |
Theme – On Śāstra | ||||||
4 | Sheldon Pollock on “Sastra” | Vrinda Acharya | 19 | PPT | Video | |
5 | Did Indian Intellectual tradition hold that all knowledge of practice is contained in śāstras? – A Critique of Pollock’s 1985 śāstra-s paper | Surya K | 28 | PPT | Video | |
6 | The Science and Nescience of Śāstra | Sudarshan T N | 39 | PPT | Video | |
7 | Śāstra – an impediment to progress? | Rajath V | 28 | PPT | Video | |
Theme – On Rāmāyaṇa | ||||||
8 | Critique of Sheldon Pollock’s ““Rāmāyaṇa Volume 2 : Introduction to Ayodhyākāṇḍa” | Manjushree Hegde | 34 | PPT | Video | |
9 | Saṁskṛti in Context: Critiquing Pollock’s out-of-context reading of the Rāmāyaṇa | Charu Uppal | 23 | PPT | Video | |
Theme – On Nazism and Deep Orientalism | ||||||
10 | Sheldon Pollock’s idea of a “National-Socialist Indology” | Koenraad Elst | 19 | PPT | Video | |
11 | German Indology, Sanskrit and Nazi ideology | K Gopinath | 38 | PPT | Video | |
12 | A pūrva-pakṣa of “Deep Orientalism ?” | Ashay Naik | 25 | PPT | Video | |
Theme – Miscellaneous | ||||||
13 | A Critical Examination of Western Indologists’ Engagement with Sanskrit Poetic Texts | Shankar Rajaraman | 19 |
The final print version of the proceedings shall be made available soon.