Talk:Reconceptualizing India Studies
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[edit]This page should not be speedily deleted because... (1. It is about a book which is in the public domain. Wikipedia supports such pages. 2. The objectionable content has been changed. ) --78.128.154.63 (talk) 09:00, 1 May 2013 (UTC)
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[edit]This page should not be speedily deleted because... (this article does not advertise any company. it refers to the oxford publisher's site in order to acknowledge that a line or two has been legally taken from their webpage) --Rathkirani (talk) 09:08, 1 May 2013 (UTC)
Ghent School, Circular Referencing, and our "reviews"
[edit]A small but coherent lobby of political scholarship [ ] has emerged from a lineage of research supervision which centers on the charisma and ideas of S. N. Balagangadhara, a philosopher from the Centre for the Comparative Science of Cultures (Vergelijkende Cultuurwetenschap) at the University of Ghent ... This scholarship — characterised by circular reasoning, self-referencing and a poverty of rigour — has established a modest, if contentious and poorly reviewed, presence in academic spheres of dissemination.
— Sutton, Deborah Ruth (2018-07-03). "'So called caste': S. N. Balagangadhara, the Ghent School and the Politics of grievance". Contemporary South Asia. 26 (3): 336–349. ISSN 0958-4935.
- Sutton's passage (from a longer profile) is an accurate description of the sources which were cited as reviews in our article:
- An inaccessible PPT (!) by Prakash Shah, a Professor of Law at Queen Mary University of London.
- Shah was a colleague of Balagangadhara for a short while and he is seen by scholars as a member of the (fringe) Ghent School. Consult Sutton (2018) or footnote 72 in Capturing Caste in Law: The Legal Regulation of Caste Discrimination, Waughray A., Routledge 2022.
- A Wordpress blog by the same Shah, which has since gone private (and hence, inaccessible).
- A talk given by Jakob De Roover, a Professor at the Ghent University, on occasion of the book-release.
- Roover was a student of Balagangadhara and is perceived by scholars as a member of the (fringe) Ghent School. Consult Sutton (2018).
- An article by Koenraad Elst over a fringe far-right blog.
- Scholars are unanimous about three things for Elst: (1) his ignorance of historical-critical methods, (2) his Islamophobic bent of works, and (3) alignment with Hindutva.
- That said, it is prudent to mention that scholars are now identifying the Ghent School as an expression of neo-Hindutva/Hindu Nationalism in the academia. Consult Anderson, Edward; Longkumer, Arkotong (2018-10-02). "'Neo-Hindutva': evolving forms, spaces, and expressions of Hindu nationalism". Contemporary South Asia. 26 (4): 371–377. ISSN 0958-4935. or Natrajan, Balmurli (2022-01-25). "Racialization and ethnicization: Hindutva hegemony and caste". Ethnic and Racial Studies. 45 (2): 298–318. ISSN 0141-9870.
- A review over The Hindu by Dunkin Jalki.
- This is the only source which can claim to be a review. However, quite unsurprisingly, Jalki was a student of Balagangadhara. Consult Sutton (2018). It might be of interest that the article-creator's username is "Dunkinjalki".
All the current sources being discounted, I did a WP:BEFORE but came across a solitary review by the same Shah over the International Journal of Hindu Studies. As such, WP:NBOOK is not met with and this is a fit case for being redirected to S. N. Balagangadhara. TrangaBellam (talk) 10:07, 15 July 2022 (UTC)