About the Book: Battle For Sanskrit
There is a new awakening in India that is challenging the ongoing Westernization
of the discourse about India. Battle for Sanskrit seeks to alert traditional
scholars of Sanskrit and sanskriti-Indian civilization-concerning an important
school of thought that has its base in the US and that has started to dominate
the discourse on the cultural, social and political aspects of India. The
scholars of this field hold that many Sanskrit texts are socially oppressive and
serve as political weapons in the hands of the ruling elite; that the sacred
aspects need to be refuted; and that Sanskrit has long been dead. The
traditional