Response from Col. PK. Gautam with respect to my comment on his monograph
Dear Sathya,
1. Thank you so much for your kinds words. The project has only begun starting with Kautilya. Many more periods and regions need to be covered. At Note 42 reference has been made. I paste specially for you the work so far below after paragraph 4 and my signature block.
2. In my monograph and also in the forthcoming edited book of the two seminars of October 2012 and April 2013 in the policy suggestion it has been stressed that the work is a-religious and a-political..Please see H at p.83.from pages 83 onwards. Rather in my monograph I have explained the old issue of nationalist and Marxist also (p.74) and surely we are beyond that now. Please see pages122 -125 of my monograph.
3. For the other South Asian countries I have urged them to own up these traditions(pp. 108-109 including note 259). Also I do not agree with what A Matto says. In chapter III have argued on that issue at pages 50 to 51. This aspect has been covered by me in my Shruti and Smriti : Some Issues in the Re-emergence of Indian Traditional Knowledge, IDSA Issue Brief, February 12, 2013 at http://idsa.in/issuebrief/ShrutiandSmriti_PKGautam_120213
4. All religious text has both religious and secular text. Much needs to be done and in my forthcoming work I have explained it as : “ Because of absence of teaching secular aspects of religion and not studying all knowledge emanating from religious literature we are missing out on many things of philosophy both at individual level and at the state level.( This type of education to approaches to study of religions is called “ Phenomenology” . Phenomenological epoche is an approach to the study of religions to become and remain entirely neutral about what is studied. See Sushil Mittal and Gene Thursby, ‘ Introduction’, in Sushil Mittal and Gene Thursby (eds.), Religion in South Asia: an Introduction, Routledge, 2006, pp.10-11)
You can also write to the editor of JDS and if they consider it fit may publish it in future
Regards
PKGautam
Dear Sathya,
1. Thank you so much for your kinds words. The project has only begun starting with Kautilya. Many more periods and regions need to be covered. At Note 42 reference has been made. I paste specially for you the work so far below after paragraph 4 and my signature block.
2. In my monograph and also in the forthcoming edited book of the two seminars of October 2012 and April 2013 in the policy suggestion it has been stressed that the work is a-religious and a-political..Please see H at p.83.from pages 83 onwards. Rather in my monograph I have explained the old issue of nationalist and Marxist also (p.74) and surely we are beyond that now. Please see pages122 -125 of my monograph.
3. For the other South Asian countries I have urged them to own up these traditions(pp. 108-109 including note 259). Also I do not agree with what A Matto says. In chapter III have argued on that issue at pages 50 to 51. This aspect has been covered by me in my Shruti and Smriti : Some Issues in the Re-emergence of Indian Traditional Knowledge, IDSA Issue Brief, February 12, 2013 at http://idsa.in/issuebrief/ShrutiandSmriti_PKGautam_120213
4. All religious text has both religious and secular text. Much needs to be done and in my forthcoming work I have explained it as : “ Because of absence of teaching secular aspects of religion and not studying all knowledge emanating from religious literature we are missing out on many things of philosophy both at individual level and at the state level.( This type of education to approaches to study of religions is called “ Phenomenology” . Phenomenological epoche is an approach to the study of religions to become and remain entirely neutral about what is studied. See Sushil Mittal and Gene Thursby, ‘ Introduction’, in Sushil Mittal and Gene Thursby (eds.), Religion in South Asia: an Introduction, Routledge, 2006, pp.10-11)
You can also write to the editor of JDS and if they consider it fit may publish it in future
Regards
PKGautam
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