Crisis in the Classics

Sheldon Pollock

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Classical Studies and Philology Indian and Buddhist Studies Historical Linguistics and Language Studies

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With the loss of knowledge of its historical languages, India stands to lose access to three thousand years of some of the most accomplished thought ever produced. In this essay I reflect on how this cultural ecocide came about, why it should be deemed a threat worthy of our most serious attention, and what might be done to reverse it.

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