- This is not to deny the positive contribution and truly objective scholarship of some western academics towards the understanding of Hindu past and Hindu nationalism. Yet, we Hindus have shown ourselves to be internally capable of doing all this, and the subversive actions do stand out as a liability.
- Western academic setup also includes Indians trained in and beholden to that system.
- This list does not excuse shoddy research, bad presentation and bad behavior by some Hindu-s.
Data gathering despite terrible narratives
- “They are terrible, absolutely terrible at narratives but their footnotes & research, “pure facts” so to say are unparalleled.”
- “That is the sole reason I read any of these dveṣīs’ works. Full of references…. their data collection is fantastic & rigorous. The “big picture” conclusions, the narratives as you put it, are going to be shitty as the shiftiness is deliberate & by design.”
Scientific evidence over traditional beliefs
- Stuff like Patanjali of mahAbhAShya being different from patanjali of yogasUtra.
- And, ability to use IE linguistics tools to interpret veda-s : " a recent project completed in the US – with the involvement of Stephanie Jamison (b. 1948) from UCLA, a big name in the field of Western Sanskrit scholarship – was on translating the Rgveda, oldest Sanskrit text, into English, with the help of Indo-European linguistics rather than slavishly depending on Indian hermeneutics as many Indian scholars did so far. "