No: 16000000111pv1, 2016
On Pollockism
Sati Shankar
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4638-1745
www.satishankar.in GSFN Bharat, New Delhi, 110024, www.gsfn.in
Title On Pollockism
Author Sati Shankar https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4638-1745
Full Name Sati Shankar Dutta Pandey
Document 16000000111pv1
DOI https://doi.org/10.30847/99gsfn0118pv2.ISSN.2454.602X
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Keywords: Philology, Sheldon Pollock, Sanskrit Knowledge System, SKS, dialectical, historical, historicism, materialism, TBFS, Defense, Malhotra, swadeshi, Indology, purushartha, kAvya, dharma, artha, kAma, kavi, rasa, shringAra, bharata, natya, alankAra, moral, political, literary, language of God, world of men, cosmopolis, power-culture model, indian, bhAratiya, tradition, vyakta, avyakta, laukik, AdhyAtmika, astitva,
Abstract
"Philosophy in India",(which its Sanskrit Knowledge System,[SKS],principally carries) is essentially spiritual." wrote Dr. Radhakrishnan , "It is the intense spirituality of India, and not any great political structure or...that it has developed, that has enabled it to resist the ravages of time and the accidents of that history... Throughout its life it has been living with one purpose. ... The history of Indian thought illustrates the endless quest of the mind, ever old, ever new". Contrary to that, Prof. Pollock, through his, "political or liberation philology" declares Indian that the Sanskrit Knowledge System has been, void of any spirituality, full of internal conflicts, divisive, artificially created under power-culture manipulations, and hence oppressive, immoral and criminal. The paper ponders and digs deep into the bare ideological foundation of Pollock's liberation philology and analytics and succeeds in finding one to one correspondence between Pollock's analysis and conclusions drawn on Indian Sanskrit Knowledge System; and, the "broad tenets" of "Marxist dialectical-historical-materialism", proving concerned writings by Prof. Pollock, to be not- ideologically-neutral, but purely atheist, "Marxist writings" which Professor has very carefully kept disguised under the carpet of technical jargons, logically circular and metaphorical writing style and deletion of key words. While remaining focused on foundations, paper scrutinizes a few core literary applications made by Prof. Pollock and lays foundation for upgrading indigenous philology which will be truly justified and more convincing to deal with Indian tradition and its Sanskrit Knowledge System. "Atheist Marxist interpretation" can never be imposed over diametrically opposed Sanskrit Knowledge System by the tricks of hide and seek.
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Citation Sati Shankar. (2016). "On Pollockism" Revised version of On Pollock-ism: A purva paksha on Prof.Pollock's Methodologies, Swadeshi Indology, First Conference held at IIT Madras, Chennai on 6,7and 8th July 2016. submitted to © Infinity Foundation, 2016; On Pollock-ism: A purva paksha on Prof.Pollock's Methodologies Swadeshi Indology, First Conference held at IIT Madras, Chennai on 6,7and 8th July 2016. ©Infinity Foundation, 2016 https://doi.org/10.30847/16gsfn0111pv1
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