{"id":15179,"date":"2016-09-25T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-25T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2016\/09\/25\/first-swadeshi-indology-conference\/"},"modified":"2016-09-25T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-25T12:00:00","slug":"first-swadeshi-indology-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2016\/09\/25\/first-swadeshi-indology-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"First Swadeshi Indology Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swadeshiindology.com\/si-1\/summary\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>CHENNAI, INDIA, September 25, 2016 (Swadeshi Indology): The first Swadeshi Indology Conference was held in Chennai on July 6-7, 2016. A welcome address was given by Prof. K.S. Kannah and the keynote address by the organizer, Rajiv Malhotra. <\/p>\n<p>A few themes of the conference: <\/p>\n<p>Is Sanskrit dead or alive? <br \/>Critique of Sheldon Pollock&#8217;s views on Shastras <br \/>Ramayama as a Political Tool <br \/>Pollock&#8217;s position that Sanskrit was responsible for holocaust <br \/>Some Indic viewpoints to refute Pollock&#8217;s positions<br \/>Murty Classical Library&#8211;a panel discussion<\/p>\n<p>A summary of the conference with a complete list of presenters, themes and accompanying videos is at &#8220;source&#8221; above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source CHENNAI, INDIA, September 25, 2016 (Swadeshi Indology): The first Swadeshi Indology Conference was held in Chennai on July 6-7,,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}