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An example of this more sophisticated orientalism is the work of Paul Thieme... esp. his "analysis of the Sanskrit word ārya, where at the end he adv… - Sheldon Pollock
" "An example of this more sophisticated orientalism is the work of Paul Thieme... esp. his "analysis of the Sanskrit word ārya, where at the end he adverts to the main point of his research: to go beyond India in order to catch the 'distant echo of Indo-germanic customs'.
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Sheldon I. Pollock (born February 16 1948) is a scholar of Sanskrit, the intellectual and literary history of India, and comparative intellectual history. He is currently the Arvind Raghunathan Professor of South Asian Studies at the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University. He was the general editor of the Clay Sanskrit Library and is the founding editor of the Murty Classical Library of India.
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For one thing, Sanskrit literary culture was never affected by communicative incompetence, which began to enfeeble Latin from at least the ninth century. The process of vernacularization in India, in so many ways comparable to the European case, was nowhere a consequence of growing Sanskrit ignorance.
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The Ṛg-Veda as an Aryan text 'free of any taint of Semitic contact'; the 'almost Nordic zeal' that lies in the Buddhist conception of the marga [way]; the 'Indo-Germanic religion-force' of yoga; the sense of race and the 'conscious desire for racial protection'; the 'volksnahe kingship' such is the meaning of the Indo-Aryan past for the National Socialist present, a present that, for Wüst, could not be understood without this past.
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