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« Authenticity is repressive! Amy Ku‘uleialoha Stillman, ‘Beyond the Coloniality of Authenticity’, American Quarterly, 73, 1, 2021, pp. 161-167
Indigenous cosmovision against settlervision: Ranjeeva Ranjan, Alexis Castillo, Karla Morales, ‘Mapuche cosmovision and territorial rights: An interdisciplinary approach to understand the conflict of Wallmapu, Chile’, Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities, 2021 »

Settler colonialism in ancient texts: Anand Venkatkrishnan, ‘Skeletons in the Sanskrit closet’, Religion Compass, 2021

08Apr21

Abstract: This essay proposes that we cannot write a history of Sanskrit studies without locating it in the settler colonial history of the United States. It provides examples of anti‐Black racism in the writings of early Sanskritists, and recommends that we understand them as Americans. It concludes by arguing for alternative minority histories in the field.

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