Prodosh Aich - Lies with Long Legs

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In his painstakingly long academic journey through mountains of source material available in Europe, Prof Prodosh Aich establishes that the entire understanding of India developed by self-claimed scholars from West is erroneous, since the initial attempt to comprehend ancient India through the Vedas was itself faulty.
He questions the validity of the works of the famous western scholars who translated the Vedic literature into English, German and Italian. A vast majority of them did not even set foot on the Indian soil and those who came here did not learn the ancient languages in an organised manner, even though translation needs an equal command of both languages. Since neither the Vedic language nor the Sanskrit were spoken languages since ages, it was all the more difficult for them to develop language skills required for translation.
Colonialist Imperial England had prepared a concerted design to establish the superiority of blond-blue eyed-white-Christian culture over other cultures that they opted to define as «primitive», particularly in case of India.
Prof Aich uses juxtaposition to drive home a point and leaves judgement to readers. He frames a question and then answers it by using the primary source material. The book is bound to trigger an academic debate in the West also and would go a long way to establish once for all that the much-trumpeted and self-championed discipline of Indology in the West has in fact been based on falsehood.
It must have been a design that none of the scholars so far bothered to use the existing material, so abundantly available, which could have helped to unravel the truth about the colonial powers and imperial administration and bureaucracy. Scholars after scholars, even after the end of colonial empire, have continued to overlook the material that would have removed the well-laid myths about Indian society, polity and culture.

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Our daily life is organised by “information”. World wide. A continuously increasing flow of „information“ leading to more and more consolidated social and political order. „Information“ is brought to us not only through the so-called print and electronic media, but also by our environment, by the family, by educational institutions, etc. extensively. But, where does information come from, where is it produced, who puts it into circulation, what are the channels, how fast does it reach us from its source? Can we really find out? Is it important to know all the facts?

These are the reasons, these are the backgrounds that made our search for answers to our rather harmless questions so difficult, so complicated: who the “Aryans” are, the “Indogermans” and the “Indoeuropeans”? Who they are, since when has their existence been known, how has it become known that they existed, who discovered them, and how, why and for what purpose? But we have made progress in our search. With the help of our unusual questions. And as it seems, we have banged on the Pandora’s box and it is open now.”

Prodosh Aich was born in Calcutta in 1933. High School and studies in philosophy in India. Studies in ethnology, philosophy and sociology at the University of Cologne. University teacher and publicist Taught sociology at Cologne (Germany), Rajasthan (Jaipur, India) and Oldenburg (Germany) universities. Besides books he has published many papers in Readers and learned journals, made radio features and documentary films, in all around 100 titles and participated in radio and television talk-shows. He is still an Indian though he lives for a longer period in Germany than most Germans.

“Lies with long legs” is the 9 thbook by Prodosh Aich. “Coloured amongst whites” (1962), “The Indian university (1971), “Social Work” (1972), “As further decline is threatened ...” (1973), “How democratic is local politics in cities?” (1977), “Chances and boundaries of “project-study” (1978), “City-Hall Plunderers” (1986). “The Thorns on a righteous Path“ (2000)

The publication of “The Indian University” and “City-Hall Plunderers” were sabotaged. “The Thorns on a righteous Path“ includes "The Indian University" and narrates the tale of this dispute as a documentary which went on for thirty years.

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To this book To this book Our daily life is organised by “information”. World wide. A continuously increasing flow of „information“ leading to more and more consolidated social and political order. „Information“ is brought to us not only through the so-called print and electronic media, but also by our environment, by the family, by educational institutions, etc. extensively. But, where does information come from, where is it produced, who puts it into circulation, what are the channels, how fast does it reach us from its source? Can we really find out? Is it important to know all the facts? These are the reasons, these are the backgrounds that made our search for answers to our rather harmless questions so difficult, so complicated: who the “Aryans” are, the “Indogermans” and the “Indoeuropeans”? Who they are, since when has their existence been known, how has it become known that they existed, who discovered them, and how, why and for what purpose? But we have made progress in our search. With the help of our unusual questions. And as it seems, we have banged on the Pandora’s box and it is open now.” Prodosh Aich was born in Calcutta in 1933. High School and studies in philosophy in India. Studies in ethnology, philosophy and sociology at the University of Cologne. University teacher and publicist Taught sociology at Cologne (Germany), Rajasthan (Jaipur, India) and Oldenburg (Germany) universities. Besides books he has published many papers in Readers and learned journals, made radio features and documentary films, in all around 100 titles and participated in radio and television talk-shows. He is still an Indian though he lives for a longer period in Germany than most Germans. “Lies with long legs” is the 9 th book by Prodosh Aich. “Coloured amongst whites” (1962), “The Indian university (1971), “Social Work” (1972), “As further decline is threatened ...” (1973), “How democratic is local politics in cities?” (1977), “Chances and boundaries of “project-study” (1978), “City-Hall Plunderers” (1986). “The Thorns on a righteous Path“ (2000) The publication of “The Indian University” and “City-Hall Plunderers” were sabotaged. “The Thorns on a righteous Path“ includes "The Indian University" and narrates the tale of this dispute as a documentary which went on for thirty years.

The Impetus

Prologue: We are, what we know

What is happening to us?

Who paved the way for the “epochal discoverer”

Who is this William Jones?

Calcutta – Sir William's Eldorado

All trails lead to Calcutta

Treading in Sir William’s steps

Epilogue: An era of brainwashing

The Impetus

The Faculty of Social Sciences of the Oldenburg University offered, in the winter-term 1996/1997, a seminar on “Might, media and manipulation: The invention of ‘Indogermans’, ‘Indoeuropeans’, ‘Aryans’ as an exemplary case-study.” It is a project of “learning by doing research”, i.e. to start with open questions without prefixing a project plan and not depending on any prefabricated theory.

No one could have anticipated that the seminar would carry on right to the beginning of the winter-term 2000/2001. It was always on the students’ demand, though with some students dropping out and others coming in, the extensions became necessary. The newcomers had to work through the backlog of collected materials, protocols of the sessions, their evaluation, also in terms of time required, and then to develop new facets of further research.

When more than 35 students wished to participate in the seminar it was time for rethinking. A seminar of “learning by doing research” needs a manageable size of between 5 to 15 participants. So in the first session of the term a detailed report was presented on what had already been done and what the open questions were. Thereafter only five participants were left. They decided to evaluate the results achieved so far and to prepare an interim report before proceeding to further research work. In the process of the evaluation, only two participants remained at work. And these were not to undergo any more university-examinations.

They added new materials to fill up the gaps to get a comprehensive view of what had been accomplished. In this process the realisation came that many of the questions would not have arisen at all without the students’ participation. The author thanks all of them and is deeply grateful.

This book is also theirs.

A special acknowledgement is due to Aldo Stowasser. He is one of the two who have completed this project. He joined the seminar in the winter-term 1997/98, at the age of 71. He was born in Fiume, Italy (the town’s name was changed into Rijeka in 1974, as it became part of Yugoslavia, (since 1992 Croatia) and grew up in a multi-lingual environment (Italian, German and Croatian). He enjoyed a substantial humanistic and general education, over which he still has command. In his youth he has attended classes of philosophy for two terms and of law for two more terms at the University of Rome. He can look back to a long life experience in several European countries and to a career in branches as different as travel trade and banking. He is inquisitive and keen to gain new knowledge. Soon he was confronted with “absurdities” of scientific materials and of scientific achievements praised in biographies. He was determined to find out about things, engaged in patient and obstinate research, delivered numerous comprehensive contributions. He is still a polyglot. All translations from the original Latin, Italian and French, as well as a large number of those from English sources are his work. He co-operated in the correction of the manuscript of this book until it actually went into printing.

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