03-13-2006, 08:51 PM
On http://www.outlookindia.com/rantsmag.asp?f...me=witzel&sid=2
A nice list
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->My congratulations to FOSA. I want to thank each and every Eminent South Asia Scholar who is a member of FOSA for this very important achievement.
Could someone please list them and their affiliations here? I read somewhere a Hindutva fellow saying that there were 146 South Asia Scholars who are FOSA members.
I know the name of Apron Anna Doray (did I spell that rite, or is it something like Arjun Appadurai? who is an eminent SAS in New York. Recently he was the host of Rakesh something, the guy who was stopped by New York Police for casing the Metropolitan buidling for over an hour.
Then there is Comrade Tariq Ali, who is a very dedicated communist working in an East coast university.
Also there is Dr. Biju Matthew, who is Associate Professor of Business in Rider University. You cannot find a more dedicated Communist.
Another is the great Scholar Jameel Badawi, who has so lucidly explained the "Elevated Status" accorded to women in Islam. In "Gender Equity in Islam"
http://www.jannah.org/genderequity/equit...tml#note14
Professor Badawi explains: "âInstead of divorce, the husband may resort to another measure .. a gentle tap on the body, but never on the face, making it more of a symbolic measure then a punitive one⦠qualified permissible "striking" as that which leaves no mark on the body. a "permissible" act is neither required, encouraged or forbidden. In fact it may be better to spell out the extent of permissibility"
I am so happy that Scholars like these now decide the content of textbooks in California, thanks to FOSA!
Never mind. Here are the Eminent Historians who signed Professor Witzel's letter. Oh! SUCH Scholarship! SUCH Eminence!
1.Dr. Arjun Appadurai, Provost and Professor of Anthropology, The New School.
(See! And these Hindutva were accusing Indologists of being from The Old School! Take THAT, Hindutva! This is such a famous place that you don't have to say where it is. You KNOW where it is, don't you?)
2. Dr. Anjali Arondekar, Assistant Professor of Women's Studies, UC Santa Cruz
(Wow! Assistant Professor at a non-name beach school, and already a World-Famous Prominent Scholar!!)
3. Radhika Balakrishnan, Professor of Economics, Marymount Manhattan College.
(That's almost like being Professor at Biswanath Business Bollege in Bollywoood! Professor of Economics too - those ARE the experts on history and Sanskrit, you know)
4. Dr. Amrita Basu, Professor of Political Science and Womens and Gender Studies, Amherst College.
(Clearly someone who knows everything! "Womens AND Gender Studies - WOW!!! )Amherst College supplies dates for MANY Harvard Business School jocks.
5. Dr. Srimati Basu, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Depauw University. Can you ask for better credentials than THAT? DeClaw University? DeAss University? NOOO DePAUW University!!!)
6. Dr. Dilip Basu, Professor of History, UC Santa Cruz. (TWO World-renowned Indologists on the SAME beach!!! Awesome!)
7. Dr. Kim Berry, Associate Professor and Program Leader, Women's Studies, Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA.
There's Harvard, there's Stanford, and above all else, there's Humboldt State! "Program Leader" is like the VERY FIRST STATEMENT in a computer program, like "Copyright Oracle Systems Inc." World class!!
7. Dr. Manu Bhagavan, Department of History, Hunter College, City University of New York. (That's almost as good as being in a ticket booth at a City of New York Subway Station - great center of studies on Indian history and Hinduism)..
More in next post. Is this an AWESOME list or WHAT?
Dr. Rajesh Bhatt, Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Massachussetts at Amherst.
(Obviously an expert Scholar on Sanskrit..? )
Dr.Purnima Bose, Associate Professor of English and India Studies, Indiana University.
(ENGLISH AND INDIA STUDIES - obviously the right mix of expertise to decide what California children should learn about Indian history. There, HOW can anyone argue with THAT? Everyone knows that even the word "HISTORY" is English, so how can there have been any Indian history before ENGLISH?)
Dr. Carol A. Breckenridge, Associate Professor of History, The New School. Under Provost Appadurai, no doubt... Another devout Hindu, expert on Hinduism.
Dr. Allison Busch, Assistant Professor of Hindi and Indian Literature, Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University.
THERE! What did I tell you? SUCH world-class expertise on so many subjects, at the Assistant Professor level. Expert on anything and everything east of Gibraltar and west of Hawaii. Scholarship at its best! Also, clearly another Hindu.
Dr. Paula Chakravarty, Assistant Professor of Communication, UMass, Amherst. ANOTHER Assistant SCHOLAR! This one on COMMUNICATIONS! (professor of emails? ) And YET another HINDU!
Dr. Sharad Chari, "Geography, London School of Economics, and Development Studies, University of KwaZulu-Natal." And here I thought LSE was in London, England! My ignorance. Yes, I can see that expertise in Geography is VERY important to this whole issue.
<b>And here the Scholars' List on Hinduism Experts becomes trylu Awesome: Are you on the edge of your seat? Hold on!</b>
Dr. Munis D. Faruqui, ASSISTANT Professor of South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of California-Berkeley.
Yes, Asalam u Aleikum, Munis miyan, thank you for signing this and teaching these Kafirs a lesson!
Dr. Shelley Feldman, Professor of Development Sociology, Cornell University.
SUCH Relevance to the issue! Clearly another World-Class Sanskrit Scholar and Indian History expert, and of course a practising Hindu!
Dr, Oliver Freiberger, ASSISTANT Professor of South Asian Studies, University of Texas at Austin.
<b>Another Hinduism expert... </b>
Dr. Rosemary George, Associate Professor of LITERATURE, UC San Diego.
COMRADE Dr. Sangeeta Kamat, Associate Professor of International Education, University of Massachussetts, Amherst (Old-time Comrade, co-founder of the PROXSA, FOIL, and FOSA, co-admirer of the UnaBomber etc, with Dr. Biju Matthew).
Dr. Biju Matthew, Associate Professor of Business, Rider University, NJ
(CLEARLY an expert on Indian history..) Especially well-versed on The Communist Manifesto - he spoke at the 100th Anniversary of that recently. Founder of FOIL. Frequent writer in "People's Democracy - Official Organ of the Communist Party of India Marxist-Maoist People's War Group).
COMRADE Dr. Raza Mir, Associate Professor of MANAGEMENT, William Paterson University. Yet ANOTHER PROXSA/FOIL founder. Of course, a devout Hindu name..
Dr. Aamir Mufti, Associate Professor of ENGLISH, UCLA.
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A nice list
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->My congratulations to FOSA. I want to thank each and every Eminent South Asia Scholar who is a member of FOSA for this very important achievement.
Could someone please list them and their affiliations here? I read somewhere a Hindutva fellow saying that there were 146 South Asia Scholars who are FOSA members.
I know the name of Apron Anna Doray (did I spell that rite, or is it something like Arjun Appadurai? who is an eminent SAS in New York. Recently he was the host of Rakesh something, the guy who was stopped by New York Police for casing the Metropolitan buidling for over an hour.
Then there is Comrade Tariq Ali, who is a very dedicated communist working in an East coast university.
Also there is Dr. Biju Matthew, who is Associate Professor of Business in Rider University. You cannot find a more dedicated Communist.
Another is the great Scholar Jameel Badawi, who has so lucidly explained the "Elevated Status" accorded to women in Islam. In "Gender Equity in Islam"
http://www.jannah.org/genderequity/equit...tml#note14
Professor Badawi explains: "âInstead of divorce, the husband may resort to another measure .. a gentle tap on the body, but never on the face, making it more of a symbolic measure then a punitive one⦠qualified permissible "striking" as that which leaves no mark on the body. a "permissible" act is neither required, encouraged or forbidden. In fact it may be better to spell out the extent of permissibility"
I am so happy that Scholars like these now decide the content of textbooks in California, thanks to FOSA!
Never mind. Here are the Eminent Historians who signed Professor Witzel's letter. Oh! SUCH Scholarship! SUCH Eminence!
1.Dr. Arjun Appadurai, Provost and Professor of Anthropology, The New School.
(See! And these Hindutva were accusing Indologists of being from The Old School! Take THAT, Hindutva! This is such a famous place that you don't have to say where it is. You KNOW where it is, don't you?)
2. Dr. Anjali Arondekar, Assistant Professor of Women's Studies, UC Santa Cruz
(Wow! Assistant Professor at a non-name beach school, and already a World-Famous Prominent Scholar!!)
3. Radhika Balakrishnan, Professor of Economics, Marymount Manhattan College.
(That's almost like being Professor at Biswanath Business Bollege in Bollywoood! Professor of Economics too - those ARE the experts on history and Sanskrit, you know)
4. Dr. Amrita Basu, Professor of Political Science and Womens and Gender Studies, Amherst College.
(Clearly someone who knows everything! "Womens AND Gender Studies - WOW!!! )Amherst College supplies dates for MANY Harvard Business School jocks.
5. Dr. Srimati Basu, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Depauw University. Can you ask for better credentials than THAT? DeClaw University? DeAss University? NOOO DePAUW University!!!)
6. Dr. Dilip Basu, Professor of History, UC Santa Cruz. (TWO World-renowned Indologists on the SAME beach!!! Awesome!)
7. Dr. Kim Berry, Associate Professor and Program Leader, Women's Studies, Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA.
There's Harvard, there's Stanford, and above all else, there's Humboldt State! "Program Leader" is like the VERY FIRST STATEMENT in a computer program, like "Copyright Oracle Systems Inc." World class!!
7. Dr. Manu Bhagavan, Department of History, Hunter College, City University of New York. (That's almost as good as being in a ticket booth at a City of New York Subway Station - great center of studies on Indian history and Hinduism)..
More in next post. Is this an AWESOME list or WHAT?
Dr. Rajesh Bhatt, Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Massachussetts at Amherst.
(Obviously an expert Scholar on Sanskrit..? )
Dr.Purnima Bose, Associate Professor of English and India Studies, Indiana University.
(ENGLISH AND INDIA STUDIES - obviously the right mix of expertise to decide what California children should learn about Indian history. There, HOW can anyone argue with THAT? Everyone knows that even the word "HISTORY" is English, so how can there have been any Indian history before ENGLISH?)
Dr. Carol A. Breckenridge, Associate Professor of History, The New School. Under Provost Appadurai, no doubt... Another devout Hindu, expert on Hinduism.
Dr. Allison Busch, Assistant Professor of Hindi and Indian Literature, Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University.
THERE! What did I tell you? SUCH world-class expertise on so many subjects, at the Assistant Professor level. Expert on anything and everything east of Gibraltar and west of Hawaii. Scholarship at its best! Also, clearly another Hindu.
Dr. Paula Chakravarty, Assistant Professor of Communication, UMass, Amherst. ANOTHER Assistant SCHOLAR! This one on COMMUNICATIONS! (professor of emails? ) And YET another HINDU!
Dr. Sharad Chari, "Geography, London School of Economics, and Development Studies, University of KwaZulu-Natal." And here I thought LSE was in London, England! My ignorance. Yes, I can see that expertise in Geography is VERY important to this whole issue.
<b>And here the Scholars' List on Hinduism Experts becomes trylu Awesome: Are you on the edge of your seat? Hold on!</b>
Dr. Munis D. Faruqui, ASSISTANT Professor of South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of California-Berkeley.
Yes, Asalam u Aleikum, Munis miyan, thank you for signing this and teaching these Kafirs a lesson!
Dr. Shelley Feldman, Professor of Development Sociology, Cornell University.
SUCH Relevance to the issue! Clearly another World-Class Sanskrit Scholar and Indian History expert, and of course a practising Hindu!
Dr, Oliver Freiberger, ASSISTANT Professor of South Asian Studies, University of Texas at Austin.
<b>Another Hinduism expert... </b>
Dr. Rosemary George, Associate Professor of LITERATURE, UC San Diego.
COMRADE Dr. Sangeeta Kamat, Associate Professor of International Education, University of Massachussetts, Amherst (Old-time Comrade, co-founder of the PROXSA, FOIL, and FOSA, co-admirer of the UnaBomber etc, with Dr. Biju Matthew).
Dr. Biju Matthew, Associate Professor of Business, Rider University, NJ
(CLEARLY an expert on Indian history..) Especially well-versed on The Communist Manifesto - he spoke at the 100th Anniversary of that recently. Founder of FOIL. Frequent writer in "People's Democracy - Official Organ of the Communist Party of India Marxist-Maoist People's War Group).
COMRADE Dr. Raza Mir, Associate Professor of MANAGEMENT, William Paterson University. Yet ANOTHER PROXSA/FOIL founder. Of course, a devout Hindu name..
Dr. Aamir Mufti, Associate Professor of ENGLISH, UCLA.
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