Rajiv Malhotra's Encounter with a Hinduphobic Professor from Univ of Chicago #3

yeah my name is Tyler Williams I'm a professor of Hindi and Urdu I also teach a bit of Sanskrit a bit of Persia and I also still teach about bhakti I teach about Indian religion in history is very interested in Columbia no known it another one of your favorite the universities ok which one is that if I if I tell you will you attempt to tarnish my image like you have my colleagues well if you think that what I did to the colleagues is tarnishing their image then in the Curan and cancer the following questions yeah I'll get to the question see this your question but this itself shows let me get the inability to to take criticism so if you say tarnish the image as an academic you are you have to give evidence so you should say this is a statement you made which constitutes tarnishing the image and I'll give you a response either I didn't make it you have just misquote it or something worse was said about me or I would say that this is legitimate criticism so would you like to elaborate on that yes I would sure please dad my question is actually I'll keep it I'll keep it brief sure my question is this I appreciate the fact that these students have called you here today and the spirit of discussion and I appreciate what you said earlier about the spirit of discussion now I think the students who have come here tonight deserve to know what is your real approach to creating discussion because as you said you want to talk about areas which are not being discussed however the way you've done that is by positing two categories which are diametrically opposed that of the insider in the outsider which I fine actually vidi AIT's the classroom because in my classroom I have Hindu students who teach me a lot I have some non Hindu students who teach me a lot but the the schema that you've given that I'm an outsider they are an insider the white students are outsiders the I don't know not why and the outsiders also also that are outsiders to the Hindu community I find propaganda not you are doing is you're my most radiant question I'm stating no no but firstly you're not asking a question my second question is that was not a question that was a that was an allegation but wait with me so you have no so you have no answer to that no but I have an answer you've made an allegation and said you have no answer without giving me a chance and I want to ask this again I can't wait to hear the purple pox okay so the the statement that I have created White's as Outsiders is incorrect you should read my book I've defined what I have read your book but then you have misread it and you should learn reading skills because I've said very something like you Rick yeah yeah just like yeah oh just like a misread Sheldon Pollak 590 know what but let me tell you that I have very clearly said this is outsider is defined by the lens he wears and not by the ethnicity and I have also marked a lot of not allowed to speak wait a second so so I don't allow this you asked a question and you know that the protocol and the decency to listen to an answer because you're trying to be an academician with some clout and credibility and therefore you owe it that you've made an allegation you should give me a chance may I please okay so I want to clarify my position because I'm entitled to defining what my position is rather than you defining it for me so I have said very clearly that insiders and outsiders is based on the lens and I've given a table of insider lens and outsider lens and written very carefully many times it is not about ethnicity and I have said that many white people are in fact insiders and lot of Indians are outsiders and I've called them see poised I call them all sorts of names and they are the outsiders so for you to insinuate that I've considered white people to be outsiders because they're white is actually incorrect so I just want you to be for the record you yeah thank you for finding out again the category my Ricardo no no but but it shows that you are more into the rumors or what people say because you haven't really read because this is written right in the introduction of my books okay have second second secondly and people how many people have read okay so students have read more than you the professor because they have read the book and you are claiming I just said I read the book and I've read your articles and I've read your latest but we're not post about you let her read it wrongly but you read it wrong because you don't understand what I meant by inside as an outsider so that's one thing second thing you are saying that this categorization of insiders and outsiders as a matter of principle is the wrong thing to do in religious studies we have something called emic and etic I don't know if you're familiar with that and we have the idea of the idea of insiders and al Qaeda did you invent that I might be somebody but maybe maybe they're not familiar with this maybe you're not familiar with this but maybe you are but the category of insiders and outsiders is a well-known a degree in cultural studies it's it's a category in when they are looking at different identities and this is not something I have invented you can look at insiders and outsiders as seen by many different identity groups many different culture groups in this country so we can discuss this but you should be accurate and not falsify I am very glad you are asking this right here on camera because it gives me a chance to illustrate the amount of the amount of denigration unfair mischaracterization and I'm so happy that we have a chance to talk I'm glad to because the way you mischaracterize sheldon Pollock's work with nothing quite sensible my other question my noggin is now your social networking question is what is your position in front of these students what is your position on plagiarism considering you got caught plagiarizing I didn't miss actually no no wait a second wait a second wait a second wait a second i i i had given a non-physician I have given an answer you asked a question you asked me three times I do Mike my answer I have challenged Nicholson to take me to court which is what the law requires and otherwise keep his mouth shut or take me to an arbitration and he has not accepted okay well as a juror wait a second wait a second wait a second wait a second you should listen to me an allegation does not comprise a verdict an allegation is an allegation and you have to take it to a neutral third party which he has not done second thing you should know his publisher which was Columbia University Press and my publisher which is HarperCollins long back hadn't had a letter exchange which I have copies of have you seen those letters have you seen those letters what did they say sauce on the you know I'm talking about what does Columbia University Press letter say do you have you seen it okay what does a Columbia University Press letter say it support it to you oh no they only support it because maybe it doesn't what does it doesn't use the word plagiarism doesn't use the word pigeon because I have it with me you didn't follow me I'm saying you did not it's like less your references wait a second if you are truthful that you have seen it and your whole topic is about plagiarism does the Columbia University Press letter to HarperCollins use the word pages you got me there okay sorry so you don't even know the main punchline the elephant in the room is supposed to be plagiarism and if the publisher is writing a letter you ought to know whether they use the word pages or not they called it copy editing mistakes and we request that you fix them that's what they call it second that's let me just let me just tell you let me let me let me tell you and Ray Allen's like wait a second that is this is all the usefulness another you heard wait wait wait a second it is not because I have seen publishers write a straight ladder I have seen permission right 11 okay then let me also tell you do you if you read my book do you know how many times I have quoted Nicholson and mentioned him by name can you tell me yeah not a hundred percent no no no how many times how many times geez I don't go through your books with the pen okay but no go down the number if you are making if you are making such an allegation against somebody then you are - no well it turns out yeah let me know your answer later right let me give you the answer let me give the answer in that one chapter alone that's the only chapter chapter eight whichever I mentioned and we have used Nicholson's work there are thirty three times then it uses the word Nicholson said Nicholson said Nicholson said between the words and the the end nodes where I've given the page numbers and three times I have not put the courts I paraphrased it okay wait a second wait a second no honest wait a second wait a second no honest jury no honest judge would say that a person who wants to plagiarize will mention the source thirty-three times the same chapter if his intention is to plagiarize so I saw so wait a minute erasing not no no no no playing today these people what your connection is to the BJP why no no we're okay okay see so this is so his last question is what is your relation vgp so you can see this is Hindu phobia he's looking all over the place all right so he went fishing let me have the last word he is ashamed to tell where he teaches because I will do to him what I've done to his honey okay and basically and basically and big and basically don't know whether you menacing your shelter wait a second wait a second wait a second you're trying to be a hero because maybe they'll give you a channeler job which you don't have okay okay maybe maybe maybe maybe this is maybe Nick Nick I'm saying no wait a second wait a second no no wait a second what what is happening is maybe maybe a be great maybe a be great person who is an adjunct EQ an adjunct professor not even a fully accredited and you are trying to be hero in the eyes of your caliber of people where yeah but what I'm saying okay I'm sorry no but I think this is a very important thing this is this is this is exactly the okay this is exactly the sort of YouTube clip which gets me the highest hits I'm telling you that and I want to thank you that because you really helped me make my points you helped me make my points and look at the dancing around because before I can answer a question you quickly want to jump around and you hit hurt caldron Paulo but then you quickly went around do are you member of BJP you are not able to you you don't have the mental stability to stick to a point here both sides before you jump off so if you want to discuss sheldon Paulo let's have a discussion and I we've invited Sheldon Pollock he ought to have been here why isn't he here why is he afraid to face me face to face so Sheldon Pollock and I can stay

Channel: Rajiv Malhotra Official

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Keywords: University of Chicago, Rajiv Malhotra, Columbia University, Battle For Sanskrit, Breaking India, Being Different, Indras Net, Hinduphobia, Academic Hinduphobia, Hinduphobic, Bharat, India, Swadeshi Indology, Indic Studies, Indic, Indian, Indology, Western Indology, Sheldon Pollock, Dharma, Sanatan Dharma, Hindu, Hindus, Hinduism, Caste System, Varna, Sanskrit, Evangelism, Vedas, Puranas, Upanishad, Vedic, Vedic Culture, Shastra, Hindutva, Purvapaksha, Post Truth, Missionaries, Christianity

Id: G2ke7Higm-Y

Length: 10min 25sec (625 seconds)

Published: Tue Jul 26 2016

Reddit Comments

[u/RajaRajaC]

That was interesting, but where did the Hinduphobia come in from?

The guy was being a douche but definitely not Hinduphobic.

[u/xdesi]

Thanks OP! Great response by RM to that professor - btw do you know who this professor is?

[u/hindu-bale]

emic and etic

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Did you just make that up? Because I have a PhD in this subject.

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emic_and_etic