Nepal News & Discussion

[Hauma Hamiddha]

The simple thing is Witzel made a Malhotran U-turn as done by several western scholars. He at some point might have been supported by the Hare Krishnas as suggested by the positive references to them long ago. Until the the mid-90s he had not yet turned openly anti-Hindu, and only after that he went that way. The U-turns have been well-studied by Malhotra and others like V. Agrawal. In fact Witzel was inadvertently useful in exposing the U-turns of a number of other Western scholars about whom one was uncertain. Given the high frequency of U-turns among western scholars, we may consider that as even a default path. Though there might be difference in this regard vis-a-vis bauddha and sanAtana studying mlechCha-s