>Your critique is very good, but not having seen the article, it is
>difficult to judge. You suggest that Paglia's reluctance to go down that
>road is ignorance. But maybe she thinks it already a well-trodden road,
>and would prefer to bend the stick in the other direction.
Then she's clearly stupider than I thought. Well known by whom? Not by most Indians certainly. And certainly not by her; she evinces NO knowledge at all of the relation between racism and archaelogy though the pt of the editorial she decided to write was to defend archaelogy agains the charge. How different is this than declaring a war on science without knowing anything at all about 20th century physics? As for being a well worn path, the ground breaking book I cited was published in 1997! (Thomas Trautmann, Aryans and British India. California) But of course as one who has decided to throw in with reactionary opponents of the anti scientific left, it is not surprising that you seem willing here to support the one sided, reactionary critique of those challenging Eurocentrism. You can afford to indulge the racism of these types. I can't. You are an Aryan, I am not. Yours, Rakesh