Short term Guided Research and Book Writing Fellowships On Kashmir

[Nagaraj Paturi]

Indic Academy’s Inter Gurukula  University Centre announces

Short term Guided Research and Book Writing Fellowships On Kashmir 

Today Indian nation is celebrating the steps taken by Government of India to remove the hurdles to the development of Kashmir as an integral part of India. On this occasion Indic Academy ‘s Inter Gurukula university Centre (IGUC) notes with pride how Bharatiya Vidwans are celebrating the occasion in their own way by reminding the nation how  premodern Sanskrit  and other IndianLiterature articulated how much Kashmir and Kashmiris always meant and mean to India and vice versa. 

IGUC  wishes to join these celebrations by announcing three Short term Guided Research and Book Writing Fellowships of  Rs 30,000/- each with a three months duration for each. 

Scholars , research students, public intellectuals and /or anyone who is interested in writing a well researched book on this topic may send their Statement of Interest along with their profile to IGUC at Nam...@Indica.org.in.

IGUC suggests the following topics for the books: 

1. Shankara, Advaita and Kashmir : It is well known that Kashmir forms part of the Shankara’s geo-cultural oneness vision of Bharat. It is also well known that Mata Sarada  of Sarada Peeth of Kashmir is very significant part of Sankara’s vision. Sarada is an important deity in all the Sankara Peethas and Mathas. Kashmir has always been a cradle of various strands of Advaita.  

2. Abhinava Gupta ‘s influence  beyond Kashmir : One of the monumental icons of ancient India’s intellectual achievements Abhinava Gupta and his contribution through his big number of books to multiple fields of theory and practice does not need a new introduction. A book focusing specifically on the influence of his contributions in all these fields on the intellectual, spiritual and cultural traditions of India is the need of the hour. 

3. Tirthas  and Kshetras of Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh in oral and written literature :  It is well known that Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh hold an intense sacral significance to Indians and that significance is very well expressed through various works of oral and written literary works in Sanskrit and other Indian languages. A book compiling and analyzing all such expressions at one place is long overdue. 

These topics are only indicative. Scholars , research students, public intellectuals and /or anyone who is interested in writing a well researched book celebrating the occasion  may come up with other topics highlighting how  premodern Sanskrit  and other IndianLiterature articulated how much Kashmir and Kashmiris always meant and mean to India and vice versa. 

Fellowship begins from the 1^st Sptember, 2019. 

Last date for sending the Statements of Interest with profiles is 20^th August, 2019. 

[Jsr Prasad]

Sir,

A very timely decision of IGUC to sponsor works on intellectual contributions related to Kashmir! Recently, the country has witnessed a greatest political achievement in the annals of Indian history.

I believe, you may certainly get good responses with solid proposals. 

All our best wishes.

Regards

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[K S Kannan]

A thought of a revisit to the issue occurred to me too.

Which is why I sent the links of the Sanskrit book kashmiretihasa and one or two others.

The resounding silence regarding, or equally,  trivialisation of, the gravity of the matter

as some "fire accident" by many insolent Western Indologists (such as  Prof Sheldon Pollock),

in respect of the wanton and ruthless destruction and devastation (even of libraries)

wrought by the Muslim barbarians can be no less barbaric :   The issue has been dealt with

here and there in some of the Swadeshi Indology volumes (edited by me).

Prof. Arvind Sharma has given a picturesque description of "the perfect genocide".

Great, and timely, of IGUC to have taken the issue up and sponsor/inspire writing

on the pertinent and important theme.

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​Chair Professor, IIT-Madras.

Senior Fellow, ICSSR, New Delhi.

Academic Director, Swadeshi Indology.

Nominated Member, IIAS, Shimla.

Former Professor, CAHC, Jain University, Bangalore.

Former Director, Karnataka Samskrit University, Bangalore.

Former Head, Dept. of Sanskrit, The National Colleges, Bangalore.

[Jsr Prasad]

Thanks for a nice information sir.

Was it an article authored by Prof. Arvind Sharma?

Regards

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[K S Kannan]

I guess, in the book

Hinduism and Its Sense of History

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[Roland Steiner]

I will not enter into a debate about current political developments.
Instead, I recommend those who are interested in historical research
on medieval Kashmir to read the following article by Walter Slaje:

Medieval Kashmir and the Science of History. (South Asia Institute.
College of Liberal Arts. The University of Texas at Austin. Madden
Lecture 2003–4. Ed. by Patrick Olivelle). Austin 2004.

https://www.academia.edu/7515621/2004_Medieval_Kashmir_and_the_Science_of_History

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See also (by the same author):

"A Glimpse into the Happy Valley’s Unhappy Past: Violence and Brahmin
Warfare in Pre-Mughal Kashmir". Online-Publikation 2018 (Enlarged and
annotated version of a talk given at the Department of South Asian
Studies at Harvard University, 26 March 2018)

http://gretil.sub.uni-goettingen.de/gretil_elib/Sla018__Slaje_A_Glimpse_into_the_Happy_Valley-s_Unhappy_Past.pdf

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Just published:

Brahmā’s Curse. Facets of Political and Social Violence in Premodern
Kashmir. Halle: Universitätsverlag 2019
(Studia Indologica Universitatis Halensis. 13). 62 pp. ISBN 978-3-86977-199-1

For extracts and details, cp.

https://uvhw.de/studia-indologica/product/190701_08-199-1.html


Best,
Roland Steiner

[Bijoy Misra]

Dear Roland,

How about adding some writings from the Kashmiris over the ages?

As I said before, it always helps to get an objective view by learning

all sides.

Best wishes,

BM

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[Nagaraj Paturi]

I too would not enter into a debate over current political developments in Germany unless they affect India or Indians, because I feel that that is none of my business. 

Yes, I observed with curiosity how the Berlin Wall was broken and the Germanies were unified. But I would not enter into a debate about that with Germans.

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[Jsr Prasad]

I totally concur with Prof. Nagaraj ji and Prof. Misra ji.

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[Bijoy Misra]

In the '70s I was a voracious reader of western contributions to India.

Afterwards I had the occasion to read some of the papers where I was

disturbed by noticing inference by correlation.  While the British science

is known for some fundamental analytic work, many second rate people

were dispatched to the colonies who tried to make studies through

extremely superficial and unscientific correlations.  I am finding them

though our work here for the British period in India through our studies

in India Discovery Center.  The correlation legacy continues in many

quarters still.  The correlation assumes a false standard.  A school

gets created on a hunch published in a glossy book.  A massive

reorientation would be required to escape the hunch.  The researchers

may lack the stamina and the diligence to dig in order to understand. 

Understanding would need to throw away some of the vested knowledge. 

In turn, the researchers become opinionated journalists!

PS.  Yes, I do denounce the correlation science of BrhadSamhita,

but that was 5th century AD.

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[Deva Pattanayak]

I applaud this announcement from IGUC.

Thank you Paturi-ji.

 Yesterday, I watched a Video on Adi Sankarachary, where he bows down to a Chandala who asked why he should move away when there is no difference between their atmas.

It has been alluded that Shiva came in the form of Chandala.

Is there a detailed account of this meeting in the shastras?

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[Nagaraj Paturi]

Sri Deva Pattanayak-ji, 

As you mentioned, it is a story and as such does not come from Shaastra books. 

It is mentioned in Shankara Vijaya which is a hagiography , a religious biography of Shankaracharya.  

Hagiographies may help a historian . But everything in it might not be historically accurate.

But the point being made through the story is that a person with a true spiritual experience has equanimity. 

Social self is different from spiritual self. Social self is the container and spiritual self is the contained. 

True spiritually enlightened person does not care for the container but cares only for the contained. 

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[हर्षवर्धनः Harsha Wardhan]

very well said!

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[Deva Pattanayak]

Dear Paturi-ji,

Namaste. Following your concepts of social self and spiritual self. Will prefere to use true self over spiritual self.

The  challenge is how to develop the social self because true self is adwaita meaning one unchangeable and is self expressed.

Social self is not well defined. According to the famous story (tini tundare cheli kukura, three pronouncements can turn a goat into a dog),  social self can be falsely created. 

One can create a social image of oneself which is asat, not true. 

Social self as the term denotes depends on the society, the three tundas (voices).

A well dressed ‘Chandala’ will have a different social self especially when endowed with knowledge and wealth. 

The thing to ponder is what happens when society comes to know of his or her parents. 

I do sincerely hope society understands that the social self being asat comes in many different colors(Varnas). 

Let all know that the true self is sat and not discriminate or brand according to the social self.

Let us show respect to each other and not make derogatory comments on each other solely based on a self created higher pulpit.

There is s need to know the true self and stay away from fighting with each other’s social self.

Thank you for  contrasting social self to spiritual self which has deep implication for an individual and society today and tomorrow. 

With best regards

Deva

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[Jsr Prasad]

Namaste.

A nice explanation, indeed. 

However, if one is a saadhaka, until the social self is reformed/disappeared, it becomes inevitable for one to afford it at the cost of twisted realities to forego the satyatva of 'vyavahaara.' To equate social self with the true self, one should become like that sannyasi in a story, who was repeatedly stung by a scorpion while he tries to equate it with his true self. I wonder, what if it were a snake.

I feel, such a saadhana demands context dynamics.

Regards

[हर्षवर्धनः Harsha Wardhan]

Sir, a small doubt: when we say social self, are we perhaps equating the self with one's self-image or personality here? From consciousness we have moved to the mind, as it were.

[K S Kannan]

Another source on Kashmir history:

https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.490173/page/n1

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[Megh Kalyanasundaram]

"The amendment of Article 370 granting special status to Kashmir, far from undoing Kashmiri history, in fact restores it. The alleged “special status" stood precariously on an entrenched misrepresentation of the valley in political and academic circles as culturally insular, unique and hermetically sealed. My recent book (The Making Of Early Kashmir: Landscape And Identity In The Rajatarangini, Oxford University Press, 2018), however, has shown that Kashmir was never isolated or insular, but incredibly open and cosmopolitan; and overwhelmingly Indic in her genesis and composition rather than “unique".

All manner of cultural markers over 2,500 years of Kashmiri history (right from 500 BCE onwards) display unequivocally a Kashmir that was intensively integrated with the rest of India. From Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Bengal in the east to Malwa and Saurashtra in central and west India, and even Karnataka and Tamil Nadu in the far south, not to mention Punjab and Himachal closer home—Kashmiris looked to these places for politics, state formation, trade, education, asylum, employment, art, religion, philosophy, and even fashion, while people from the rest of India travelled to and settled in Kashmir in large numbers over the centuries for the same reasons. In the face of this historical reality of Kashmir, Article 370 as an exclusionary means artificially separating Kashmir from the rest of the country was an anomaly that has now been removed." - Dr. Shonaleeka Kaul (Centre for Historical Studies, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University) in Voices of the valley (Aug 10, 2019) 

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[Bijoy Misra]

While Kashmir as an entity has been integral to India in culture, thoughts and religion,

the Islamization possibly did create the rift as it did in Pakistan.  I believe that Islamization

did create a division to initiate a separate cultural identity through religion.  Pakistan though

formed remains unstable and its instability causes murmurs in Kashmir.  Hopefully the new

move by India would restore Kashmir valley to its magnificent scholarly past.

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[Megh Kalyanasundaram]

"Kashmir, before the advent of Islam, was a vibrant seat of learning and made staggering contributions to Indic culture in fields as diverse as arts, sciences, literature and philosophy.": Subhash Kak in The wonder that was Kashmir

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[Jsr Prasad]

You are right Harsha ji, as I too assumed similarly. It might be a progression from consciousness to mind. But the point that I thought is, minding the mind should be given utmost importance when one tries to eqautes the 'true' self with 'social' self.

[Deva Pattanayak]

Geographically Kashmir is contiguous with Bharat Varsha and being close to mighty Himalyas is seat of many ashrams.   

It is a step in the right direction that the temporary provisions in the constitution of the republic of Bharat is now removed.

A economically and socially united entity encompassing many states in that region will be beneficial and in years to come will   be a reality. Intrinsically human beings are driven by manav dharma which is eternal(sanatan) and ever evolving through cycles of yugas(cyclic time periods)

Please note that the other constitutional name of India is Bharat which when used transcends the narrow english language name India by which Bharat is commonly known now.

Long live Bharat!

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[Megh Kalyanasundaram]

काश्मीर in भरतमुनि नाट्यशास्त्र 

पाञ्चाला सौरसेनाश्च काश्मीरा हस्तिनापुराः । 

बाह्लीका शल्यकाश्चैव मद्रकौशीनरास्तथा ॥ ४८॥

Source of Kashmir (Srinagar) today video attached: https://twitter.com/hussain_imtiyaz/status/1160221786950098944?s=19 (Verified handle of J&K Police @Hussain_Imtiyaz)

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[Megh Kalyanasundaram]

स्वर्गीय आचार्यहनुमत्प्रसादशास्त्री पण्डितमार्तण्डः (1968): "'काश्मीरं चतुर्दशविद्यानां पीठम्' इति महाकवि: श्रीहर्षो वक्ति" [Page 12 in काश्मीरेतिहासः]  

"Srinagar resonating with Eid prayers as heard from atop Shankaracharya Hilltop. Symbol of Syncretism of J&K that should strike a chord with all." Source: https://twitter.com/PBNS_India/status/1160804693653819392?s=20 [Verified handle, Prasar Bharati News Services]

"Large number of people congregated for Eid-ul-Adha prayers in thousands of mosques all across Kashmir valley. Peaceful all around." Source: https://twitter.com/hussain_imtiyaz/status/1160804875489480705?s=20 [Verified handle, J&K Police]

"Eid being celebrated across Kashmir valley peacefully without any protest or violence. If someone tells you, police or state did not allow prayers, show them this video showing top vantage shot of entire Srinagar city. Loudspeakers audible with prayers. Prayers for peace!" Source: https://twitter.com/AdityaRajKaul/status/1160800558732607488?s=20 [Verified handle and source of video attached]

Aug 11, 2019 "Home ministry officials said they are awaiting a response from the foreign media outlets but so far they have not been able to produce videos." https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/government-contacts-al-jazeera-and-bbc-for-their-fabricated-video-on-kashmir/articleshow/70634925.cms

Aug 10, 2019 "Old Video Of Kashmiris Wounded In A Shell Explosion Resurfaces With False Claim" https://www.boomlive.in/old-video-of-kashmiris-wounded-in-a-shell-explosion-resurfaces-with-false-claim/

 

[Nagaraj Paturi]

An update on the thread topic:

There is very good response to the announcement. 

Apart from the announced topics, proposers are proposing new topics such as " Swami Vivekananda's engagement with Kashmir " etc. 

Hope there will be more proposals for this valuable research. 

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Hyderabad, Telangana, INDIA.

Director,  Inter-Gurukula-University Centre for Indic Knowledge Systems. 

BoS, MIT School of Vedic Sciences, Pune, Maharashtra

BoS, Chinmaya Vishwavidyapeeth, Veliyanad, Kerala

Former Senior Professor of Cultural Studies

 

FLAME School of Communication and FLAME School of  Liberal Education,

 

(Pune, Maharashtra, INDIA )

 

 

 

[K S Kannan]

Heartening to hear this!

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[Megh Kalyanasundaram]

Vaartavali video (attached): Special segment on 'Rich legacy of Sanskrit' in Kashmir

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Best,

Megh

PS: I may not necessarily endorse all the information included in this.

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[Megh Kalyanasundaram]

"काश्मीरसंस्कृतसाहित्योद्यानं जगद्धर-चन्द्रक-मंखक- रुय्यट-जय्यट-कय्यट-कल्लट-उव्वट-मम्मट- भल्लट-जल्हण-बिल्हणादिकैः महाकविभिः समृद्धतामापादितम्। अस्मादेव च ज्ञानपिपासुमुमुक्षुजनानां कृते सुख्यातमेतत् कश्मीरक्षेत्रं तीर्थस्थलीरूपं सिध्यति। अवलोकयन्तु वृत्तम्-"

Source: @DDNewsSanskrit https://twitter.com/DDNewsSanskrit/status/1162047868825296897?s=20