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

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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)
>>
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>
> Ananya Vajpeyi
> https://www.csds.in/ananya_vajpeyi
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