[BACK TO KOSAMBI from permanent black UNSETTLING THE PAST Unknown
Aspects and Scholarly Assessments of D.D. Kosambi - This is a collection
of obscure and unknown writings by D.D. Kosambi
NAYANJOT
LAHIRI ON D.D. KOSAMBI
With
Kosambi one is sometimes left with the impression of a litterateur lost in
his own world, so immersed in crafting his own work of art—a Marxist
grid—that he was blinkered against integrating the enormous range of
archaeological discoveries which had, by then, changed the face of the
Indian past. Flowing from this I would, in fact, be inclined to offer my
own proposition about what lies at the core of the Kosambi corpus:
namely, that literature was the larger encompassing grid which framed
even his Marxism.
ROBERT
P. GOLDMAN ON D.D. KOSAMBI
The
reason for the neglect of Kosambi’s Sanskrit scholarship as contrasted with the
celebration of his work in many other fields is, I believe, not difficult to
find… By the same token, theorists and activists involved in Marxist critique
and social activism have directed scant regard and even (as with the Maoists in
Nepal) violent hostility for the Sanskrit establishment, which they see as
aligned with archaic traditional systems of social inequality and which in the contemporary
era they denounce as ‘Manuvad’.]
One
of the biggest frauds perpetrated by the Marxist school of “discourse” happens
to be the fact that there’s nothing like the truth but merely interpretation.
This simple but evilly ingenious device has yielded a rich harvest to the
Marxists. Thus, the thousands of temples destroyed merely become a matter of
how history is interpreted: the truth, i.e. the act of destruction is itself
ignored.
And
here lies an oft-repeated theme in the annals of Marxist “history” writing:
glorify the Islamic period as one of benevolence, tolerance, and secularism and
vilify truly glorious Hindu empires as oppressive, regressive, and intolerant.
Where the sheer weight of historical record doesn’t allow this, adopt Plan B: minimize or
whitewash Islamic barbarities and ignore or explain away Hindu glory. We see
these vile principles applied to the Mauraya (except Ashoka), the Gupta, the
Chalukya, the Rashtrakuta, the Vijayanagar and the Maratha periods…
On
the other side, Naipaul too has been consistent in being honest. His India
a Wounded Civilization was a shoddy work by his standards but his
explorations have been honest and that has shown up in all his subsequent works
including the prophetic books that emerged as a result of his travels into
Muslim lands. As far as India
is concerned, Naipaul’s books are marked by one feature: they demonstrate and
reflect the yearning of millions of Indian people who are rediscovering and
questioning every received wisdom about their own land and culture with a
confidence and zeal and in numbers that was absent even 20 years ago.]
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After being educated in a catholic
institution, the history that was fed to me, reflected that nothing was great
about the writings of great Indians Like AUROBINDO, Swami VIVEKANANDA, and I
was condemned to think that the of the way of life, “Sanatana Dharma” as a
shameful existence, BUT THANKS, it was corrected when I came in touch with the
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Rebirth,
if restricted to the physical mechanism, adds little meaning to our lives, as
it becomes an endless repetition of births with no goal other than pure ...]
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