Talk:Reconceptualizing India Studies

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This page should not be speedily deleted because... (1. It is about a book which is in the public domain. Wikipedia supports such pages. 2. The objectionable content has been changed. ) --78.128.154.63 (talk) 09:00, 1 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

This page should not be speedily deleted because... (this article does not advertise any company. it refers to the oxford publisher's site in order to acknowledge that a line or two has been legally taken from their webpage) --Rathkirani (talk) 09:08, 1 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

A small but coherent lobby of political scholarship [ ] has emerged from a lineage of research supervision which centers on the charisma and ideas of

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Sutton's passage (from a longer profile) is an accurate description of the sources which were cited as reviews in our article:

• An inaccessible PPT (!) by Prakash Shah, a Professor of Law at Queen Mary University of London.

• Shah was a colleague of Balagangadhara for a short while and he is seen by scholars as a member of the (fringe) Ghent School. Consult Sutton (2018) or footnote 72 in Capturing Caste in Law: The Legal Regulation of Caste Discrimination, Waughray A., Routledge 2022.

• A Wordpress blog by the same Shah, which has since gone private (and hence, inaccessible).
• A talk given by Jakob De Roover, a Professor at the Ghent University, on occasion of the book-release.

• Roover was a student of Balagangadhara and is perceived by scholars as a member of the (fringe) Ghent School. Consult Sutton (2018).

• An article by Koenraad Elst over a fringe far-right blog.

• Scholars are unanimous about three things for Elst: (1) his ignorance of historical-critical methods, (2) his Islamophobic bent of works, and (3) alignment with Hindutva.

• That said, it is prudent to mention that scholars are now identifying the Ghent School as an expression of neo-Hindutva/Hindu Nationalism in the academia. Consult Anderson, Edward; Longkumer, Arkotong (2018-10-02). "'Neo-Hindutva': evolving forms, spaces, and expressions of Hindu nationalism". Contemporary South Asia. 26 (4): 371–377.
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• A review over The Hindu by Dunkin Jalki.

• This is the only source which can claim to be a review. However, quite unsurprisingly, Jalki was a student of Balagangadhara. Consult Sutton (2018). It might be of interest that the article-creator's username is "Dunkinjalki".

All the current sources being discounted, I did a