Unfortunately, given recent turmoil at Harvard, I do not think that the interim provost is likely to treat this as a priority. If those concerned, as many of us are, can organize a letter -writing campaign to the provost’s office, it may at least demonstrate that the issue is not just ignored.
Matthew Kapstein Sent from [Proton Mail](https://proton.me/mail/home) for iOS On Tue, Mar 5, 2024 at 12:14, Ananya Vajpeyi via INDOLOGY <[[email protected]](mailto:On Tue, Mar 5, 2024 at 12:14, Ananya Vajpeyi via INDOLOGY <<a href=)> wrote: > Dear Archana, > > The statement you have shared with us is distressing, for the turmoil it > reveals behind the production of this stellar series, so important to all > scholars of India and South Asia (not just pre modernists and philologists). > While matters resolve themselves between the editors, the translators, the > press, the university and the endowment -- amicably and constructively, it is > to be hoped -- we would do well to revisit an important prospectus by the > founding general editor of the MCLI, Sheldon Pollock, "What should a > classical library of India be?" > > https://sheldonpollock.org/archive/pollock_loeb_2020.pdf > > However many volumes have been published in the past decade, they are but the > tip of the iceberg. Hoping fervently that all the concerned parties will find > a way to continue making available to present and future readers the almost > endless riches of India's multilingual textual archive in high quality > editions and translations. > > Yours, > > Ananya. > > On Mon, Mar 4, 2024 at 9:50 PM Archana Venkatesan via INDOLOGY > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Dear Respected Colleagues, >> >> With apologies for cross-posting, please see the attached communication from >> the former editors of the Murty Classical Library of India. >> >> Archana >> -- >> >> "When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an >> incarnation." Jorge Luis Borges >> >> [Archana Venkatesan](https://archana.faculty.ucdavis.edu/) >> (archana.faculty.ucdavis.edu) >> Graduate Advisor, [Graduate Program in the Study of >> Religion](https://religionsgrad.ucdavis.edu/) (2022-2024) >> Professor, Religious Studies and Comparative Literature >> Phone: 530-754-2821 (Office) >> >> _______________________________________________ >> INDOLOGY mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology > > -- > > Ananya Vajpeyi > https://www.csds.in/ananya_vajpeyi
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