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July 6th, 7th ,8th 2016 |
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Venue: IIT Madras |
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IC&SR, Near Gajendra Circle, Opposite to Admin Building, Indian Institute Of Technology, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600036. |
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1st Swadeshi Indology Conference – Critiquing Neo-Orientalism |
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Day 1 |
6-Jul-16 |
7:00-8:30 |
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Breakfast |
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Session 1 (9:00 AM – 10:45 AM) |
8:55-9:00 |
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Call to assemble, announcements etc |
MC |
9:00-9:30 |
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Inauguration |
Lighting lamp, Invocation, inviting speakers on stage, presentation of gifts |
9:30-10:00 |
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Welcome speech |
Prof. Kannan |
10:00-10:45 |
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Keynote address |
Shri. Rajiv Malhotra |
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10:45-10:55 |
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Tea Break |
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10:55-11:00 |
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Call to assemble, announcements etc |
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Session 2 (11:00 AM – 12:15 PM) |
11:00-11:45 |
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Inaugural lecture |
Prof. V N Jha |
11:45-12:00 |
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Vote of thanks |
Prof. Devendra Jalihal |
12:00-12:15 |
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Buffer and Announcements (if reqd) |
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12:15-1:45 |
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Lunch |
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1:45-2:00 |
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Buffer and time for settling in |
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1:55-2:00 |
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Bringing to order, calling chair and introduction of chair for session, laying out of rules for participants etc |
MC |
Session 3 on the position that Sanskrit is dead (2:00 PM – 3:45 PM) |
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Paper Name |
Chair: Shri. Rajiv Malhotra |
2:00-2:30 |
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Pollock’s paper on the Death of Sanskrit |
Manogna Sastry |
2:30-3:00 |
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Sanskrit: The Phoenix Phenomenon |
Kannan and Meera |
3:00-3:30 |
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Essentially Unchanged – Orientalist and Post-Colonial Basis of Indology |
Ravi Joshi (via skype) |
3:30-3:45 |
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Chair closing comments |
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3.45-3:55 |
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Tea break |
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3:55-4:00 |
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Bringing to order, calling chair and introduction of chair for session, laying out of rules for participants etc |
MC |
Session 4 on the topic of his positions on Shastra (4:00 PM – 5:45 PM) |
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Paper Name |
Chair: Prof. Ramanujan |
4:00-4:30 |
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Pollock’s views on Indological Sastras |
Sundari Siddhartha |
4:30-5:00 |
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Sastra: an impediment to progress |
Rajath V |
5:00-5:30 |
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The Science and Nescience of Sastra |
Sudarshan Therani |
5:30-5:45 |
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Chair closing comments |
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5:45 |
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End of day |
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Day 2 |
7-Jul-16 |
7.00-8:30 |
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Breakfast |
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Session 5 on the topic of his positions on Shastra (9:00 AM – 10:45 AM) |
8:55-9:00 |
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Bringing to order, calling chair and introduction of chair for session, laying out of rules for participants etc |
MC |
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Paper Name |
Chair: Prof. V N Jha |
9:00-9:30 |
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Did Indian Intellectual tradition hold that all knowledge of practice is contained in Sastras? A Critique of Pollock’s 1985 Sastras Paper |
Surya K (via skype) |
9:30-10:00 |
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Sheldon Pollock on Sastra |
Vrinda Acharya |
10:00-10:30 |
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Understanding structure of arguments and errors in Sheldon Pollock’s Śāstra paper(1985) |
Vikas Veshishth |
10:30-10:45 |
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Chair closing comments |
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10.45-10:55 |
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Tea break |
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10:55-11:00 |
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Bringing to order, calling chair and introduction of chair for session, laying out of rules for participants etc |
MC |
Session 6 on the topic that Ramayana was used as a political tool (11:00 AM – 12:45 PM) |
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Paper Name |
Chair: Shri. Nityananda Misra |
11:00-11:30 |
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Ramayana Volume 2: Introduction to Ayodhyakanda-Sheldon Pollock |
Manjushree Hegde |
11:30-12:00 |
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Sanskriti in Context: Critiquing Pollock’s out of context reading of the Ramayana |
Charu Uppal |
12:00-12.30 |
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Sense Philology |
T M Narendran |
12:30-12:45 |
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Chair closing comments |
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12:45-1:45 |
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Lunch |
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1:45-2:00 |
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Buffer time for settling in |
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1:55-2:00 |
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Bringing to order, calling chair and introduction of chair for session, laying out of rules for participants etc |
MC |
Session 7 on the position that Sanskrit was responsible for the holocaust (2:00 PM – 3:45 PM) |
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Paper Name |
Chair: Prof. Makarand Paranjape |
2:00-2:30 |
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A Purvapaksha of Deep Orientalism |
Ashay Naik |
2:30-3:00 |
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Indology and Nazi ideology |
K Gopinath |
3:00-3:30 |
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Sheldon Pollock’s idea of a Nazi Indology |
Koenraad Elst |
3:30-3:45 |
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Chair closing comments |
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3:45-3:55 |
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Tea break |
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3:55-4:00 |
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Bringing to order, calling chair and introduction of chair for session, laying out of rules for participants etc |
MC |
Session 8 on some Indic viewpoints that can used to refute Pollock’s positions (4:00 PM – 5:15 PM) |
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Paper Name |
Chair: Prof. K S Kannan |
4:00-4:30 |
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From Hitler to Hinduphobia: On Sheldon Pollock’s View of Hinduism as an Early Variant of Nazism |
Vishal Agarwal (via skype) |
4:30-5:00 |
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On Pollockism |
Sati Shankar |
5:00-5:15 |
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Chair closing comments |
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5:15-6:30 |
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Panel discussion from IIT on Sanskrit-Tamil synergies |
Dr. Sudha Seshayyan, Dr. M.A Venkatakrishnan, Embar R. Kasturi |
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6:30-7:00 |
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Free |
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7:00-9:00 |
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Dinner |
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Day 3 |
8-Jul-16 |
7:00-8:30 |
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Breakfast |
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Session 9 on some Indic viewpoints that can be used to refute Pollock’s positions (9:00 AM – 10:15 AM) |
8:55-9:00 |
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Bringing to order, calling chair and introduction of chair for session, laying out of rules for participants etc |
MC |
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Paper Name |
Chair: Dr. Koenraad Elst |
9:00-9:30 |
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Sanskrit is dead, and that’s ok |
Naresh Cuntoor (via skype) |
9:30-10:00 |
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‘South Asian Knowledge’, Modern Science and Pollockian Indology |
Ravi Gomatam (via skype) |
10:00-10:15 |
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Closing comments |
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10:15-10:25 |
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Tea break |
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10:25-10:30 |
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Bringing to order, calling panelists onto dais etc |
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Session 10 (10:30 AM – 12:45 PM) |
10:30-11:55 |
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Panel discussion on MCLI |
Dignitaries |
11:55-12:00 |
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Buffer, settling down |
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12:00-1:00 |
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Valedictory address |
Paranjape |
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1:00-1:45 |
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Lunch |
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1:45-2:00 |
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Buffer time for settling in |
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1:55-2:00 |
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Calling to order, announcement of forthcoming program etc |
MC |
Session 11 (2:00 PM – 3:30 PM) |
2:00-2:45 |
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Feedback from participants |
MC with help from volunteer |
2.45-3:30 |
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Feedback from invited scholars who are potential participants for next conf |
~ 6 scholars |
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3:30-3:40 |
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Tea break |
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3:40-3:45 |
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Settling down |
MC |
Session 12 (3:45 PM – 6:00 PM) |
3:45-4:15 |
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RM’s remarks on papers |
Rajiv Malhotra |
4:15-5:30 |
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SI: Retrospect and Prospect |
Discussion |
5:30-6:00 |
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Press meet |
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