Panch (Five) Asymmetries in the Dialog of Civilizations:
A Hindu View
Rajiv Malhotra
The Infinity Foundation
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Meanwhile, Indian Marxists and Macaulayitesâborn again as 'progressives' after the Cold Warâdominate India's academe, and often power broker and become strategic allies with western academicians as experts on India. But there are many contradictions in these intellectual sepoys: (i) While many are Subalternists, India's masses, classics and culture are often alien to them, and they disrespect and caricaturize Hinduism in a reductionist Eurocentric way. (ii) Instead, they know mainly western thought and hermeneutics. (iii) <b>Yet, their careers are based on being proxies for the very tradition that they regard as a scourge.[5] </b>The phenomenon of South Asianizing, which has emerged from this confluence of excessive ethnography and Indian Macaulayism, has subverted Hinduism's universal truth claims.
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A plausible theoretical model for this is: <b>The west plagiarizes from Hinduism-Buddhism with one hand </b>(i.e. cognitive science), <b>while another western hand stereotypes the source </b>as 'caste, cows, curry' exotica and worse (i.e. anthropology/religious studies). The academic arson referenced above is merely a continuation of the age old 'plunder while you denigrate the source' process at work. It is a continuation of the [demonization] of pre-Christian religions while at the same time appropriating many central elements from the pagans into Christianity.
A Hindu View
Rajiv Malhotra
The Infinity Foundation
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Meanwhile, Indian Marxists and Macaulayitesâborn again as 'progressives' after the Cold Warâdominate India's academe, and often power broker and become strategic allies with western academicians as experts on India. But there are many contradictions in these intellectual sepoys: (i) While many are Subalternists, India's masses, classics and culture are often alien to them, and they disrespect and caricaturize Hinduism in a reductionist Eurocentric way. (ii) Instead, they know mainly western thought and hermeneutics. (iii) <b>Yet, their careers are based on being proxies for the very tradition that they regard as a scourge.[5] </b>The phenomenon of South Asianizing, which has emerged from this confluence of excessive ethnography and Indian Macaulayism, has subverted Hinduism's universal truth claims.
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A plausible theoretical model for this is: <b>The west plagiarizes from Hinduism-Buddhism with one hand </b>(i.e. cognitive science), <b>while another western hand stereotypes the source </b>as 'caste, cows, curry' exotica and worse (i.e. anthropology/religious studies). The academic arson referenced above is merely a continuation of the age old 'plunder while you denigrate the source' process at work. It is a continuation of the [demonization] of pre-Christian religions while at the same time appropriating many central elements from the pagans into Christianity.