Indology: Past Present and Future

Indology : Past, Present and Future is a compilation of seminar papers in which scholars of India as well as abroad have discussed at length the state of Indology in the past, present and future. Indology which has a history of a little over two hundred years, started and nurtured in the west. It arrived in India along with a few other imported ideologies with the package of modern higher education during the pre-independence period. Since then, a new current of indigenous Indology joined the main current.

With the explosion of knowledge, however, Indology is experiencing a low ebb both in the West as well as in India. Science and technology being the areas of priority in a developing nation like India, Indology and other humanities are bound to have been scaled down in the curricula on different levels. Indology will, as any other discipline, take cognizance of the changing face of the world and to adapt itself to the prevailing situation. Some papers of the volume dealt with the fundamental theme of Indology and some devoted to the status reports on Indology in different countries such as USA, Brazil, Russia, Poland, China and Australia. The topics selected for the seminar offered a wide range of problems based on Indology, which is not embracing all aspects of Indian culture. This collection will enable researchers of India and West to work together rather than against each other.

About the Author:

Saroja V. Bhate born on 5.1.1942 in Satara District of Maharashtra. She got her Ph.D. from Poona University. She has published 10 books, number of research papers and visited many countries. At present she is Professor and Head of the Department of Sanskrit and Prakrit Languages, Poona University, Pune.

Introduction     Saroja Bhate	7
Welcome Address      K. Satchidanandan	12
Indology's Mistaken Past      Marja Ludwika Jarocka	17
The Future of Indology      Juan Miguel De Mora	23
Remarks on Western Terms for Translating Indic Texts      Alex Wayman	31
Indology in the United States Past Present and Lessons for the Future      Richard J. Cohen	37
Linguistical Explorations in Indian Languages in Russia      Zakharyin	48
Indological Studies in Austrila      Tamara Ditrich	61
Philosophy and Philology East and West : Need and Basis for a Global Approach      Jan E.M. Houben	84
Oriental Studies, Indology and Epistemology      Glaus Oetka	126
Indology and Rationality      Johannes Bronkhorst	142
Indology Beyond Sanskrit - but also including Sanskrit      Hans Henrich Hock	174
Orientalism vis-à-vis Classical Sanskrit Literature      C Rajendran	188
Fifty years of Vedic Research Retrospect and Prospect      S.K. Lal	195
Interpretation of Interpolations in Critical Editions      M. Srimannarayana Murti	206
What does Indology mean specially for China      Duan Qing	223
The Feasibility of 'Indian Discourse'      Usha Bhise	233