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Crisis in the Classics
- Social Research: An International Quarterly
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 78, Number 1, Spring 2011
- pp. 21-48
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Abstract
With the loss of knowledge of its historical languages, India stands to lose access to three thousand years of some of the most accomplished thought ever produced. In this essay I reflect on how this cultural ecocide came about, why it should be deemed a threat worthy of our most serious attention, and what might be done to reverse it.
