04-20-2006, 09:04 PM
<!--QuoteBegin-Bharatvarsh+Apr 19 2006, 08:14 PM-->QUOTE(Bharatvarsh @ Apr 19 2006, 08:14 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin--><!--QuoteBegin--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->His information came from there.
If Laine is writing negative material re Shivaji, the ABORI Hindu Scholars have only themsleves to blame<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
No it did not come from there, he has not given any source for his claim that Shivaji was b@st@rd other than how some Marathas tell such naughty jokes (funny no Hindu I know ever heard of such a joke), BORI simply provided him access to the sources, what he wrote is his responsibility and as a supposed scholar he should be responsible about what he writes, with freedom comes responsibility. His insistence that Shivaji had no Hindu conciousness is nonsensical especially in light of the letters Shivaji wrote to Dadaji Naras Prabhu, Samarth Ramdas and Aurangzeb. Even his contemporary biographers and court historians are quite clear that he intended to establish a Hindu kingdom.
If someone goes to a research library and comes out with a book, the claims made in the book unless substantiated by historical sources are that persons responsibility, not the responsibility of the research library or its staff. Other people can't determine what Laine writes.
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Laine mentions in his Acknowledgments (p. viii) that his "scholarly home has been the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute in Pune" where he "profited from advice and assistance"
That is far different from someone just consulting some books in the library and using them as references.
If the information was not in anybook, It could be thought, not without reason, that Laine got this kind of story from BORI scholars.
An alternative explantion could be - Laine used the info, and now everyone is running away from the 'sick private joke'.
Did the BORi scholars set up the mischief?
If Laine is writing negative material re Shivaji, the ABORI Hindu Scholars have only themsleves to blame<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
No it did not come from there, he has not given any source for his claim that Shivaji was b@st@rd other than how some Marathas tell such naughty jokes (funny no Hindu I know ever heard of such a joke), BORI simply provided him access to the sources, what he wrote is his responsibility and as a supposed scholar he should be responsible about what he writes, with freedom comes responsibility. His insistence that Shivaji had no Hindu conciousness is nonsensical especially in light of the letters Shivaji wrote to Dadaji Naras Prabhu, Samarth Ramdas and Aurangzeb. Even his contemporary biographers and court historians are quite clear that he intended to establish a Hindu kingdom.
If someone goes to a research library and comes out with a book, the claims made in the book unless substantiated by historical sources are that persons responsibility, not the responsibility of the research library or its staff. Other people can't determine what Laine writes.
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Laine mentions in his Acknowledgments (p. viii) that his "scholarly home has been the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute in Pune" where he "profited from advice and assistance"
That is far different from someone just consulting some books in the library and using them as references.
If the information was not in anybook, It could be thought, not without reason, that Laine got this kind of story from BORI scholars.
An alternative explantion could be - Laine used the info, and now everyone is running away from the 'sick private joke'.
Did the BORi scholars set up the mischief?