Jakob de Roover, the author of the article ‘Untangling the Knot’ maligns all contemporary South Asianist scholarship (except that of S.N. Balagangadhara) with his unsubst
A response to Nivedita Menon. L'affaire Doniger is not about ‘free speech’ but about going beyond the colonial ‘scholarly’ tradition.
Jakob De Roover’s empathetic account of the imagined ‘Hindu boy with intellectual inclinations’ born in the 1950s needs to be read with another imagined growing child: the