Biography:Michel Danino
Michel Danino | |
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| Born | 1956 (age 67–68),
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| Nationality | Indian |
| Occupation | Author |
| Organization | IIT Gandhinagar |
| Honours | Padma Shri |
Michel Danino (born 4 June 1956) is a French-Indian Author .[1] He is a guest professor at IIT Gandhinagar[2] and has been a member of the Indian Council of Historical Research. In 2017, Government of India conferred Padma Shri, the fourth-highest civilian honor for his contribution towards Literature & Education.[3]
Life in India
He spent a few years in Auroville, Tamil Nadu before shifting to the Nilgiri mountains, where he resided for two decades. In 2003, he settled near Coimbatore and accepted Indian citizenship.[1]
Work and reception
Danino had authored The Lost River: On The Trail of the Sarasvati, which tentatively identified the legendary Sarasvati River, mentioned in Rigveda with the current Ghaggar-Hakra River.[4] V Rajamani over Current Science reviewed it in favorable terms and praised Danino for his meticulous research.[5]
Peter Heehs's opinion one of his another works, Sri Aurobindo and Indian Civilization, to lack in linguistic knowledge, and being made up by attacks on colonial orientalists and half-informed invocations of nationalist orientalists.[6] Heehs also criticized Danino's other works for appropriating Sri Aurobindo in his campaign against the Indo-Aryan migrations, and for distorting Aurobindo's speculative views as assertions.[6] Danino selectively cherry-picked quotes from his draft-manuscripts and ignored his published works, which were far more nuanced.[6] Others have accused Danino of pursuing a sectarian Hindutva oriented scholarship based on historical negationism.[7][8][9]
Danino was a contributing author to an encyclopedic volume by Wiley-Blackwell, on South Asian history and archaeology, about the domain of Indus Valley civilisation.[10]
See also
- Alain Danielou
- Koenraad Elst
- David Frawley
- Francois Gautier
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Pande Daniel, Vaihayasi. "The Sarasvati was more sacred than Ganga". Rediff.com. http://news.rediff.com/report/2010/may/22/interview-with-michel-danino.htm. "Technically, I am not a 'foreigner': I adopted Indian citizenship some years ago."
- ↑ "Michel Danino - IIT Gandhinagar". http://www.iitgn.ac.in/faculty/humanities/michel.htm.
- ↑ "PadmaAwards-2017". http://padmaawards.gov.in/PDFS/PadmaAwards-2017_25012017.pdf.
- ↑ "TOI Crest: Quick review". The Times of India. 29 May 2010. https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/stoi/TOI-Crest-Quick-review/articleshow/5988271.cms.
- ↑ Rajamani, V. (2010). "Review of The Lost River – On the Trail of the Sarasvati". Current Science 99 (12): 1842–1843. ISSN 0011-3891.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Heehs, Peter (2003). "Shades of Orientalism: Paradoxes and Problems in Indian Historiography". History and Theory 42 (2): 169–195. doi:10.1111/1468-2303.00238. ISSN 0018-2656.
- ↑ Guha, Sudeshna (2005). "Negotiating Evidence: History, Archaeology and the Indus Civilisation". Modern Asian Studies 39 (2): 399–426. doi:10.1017/S0026749X04001611. ISSN 0026-749X. https://semanticscholar.org/paper/717eff3d7d0abc0b4bdbd7f69af7ca7b91074deb.
- ↑ Chadha, Ashish (2011-02-01). "Conjuring a river, imagining civilisation: Saraswati, archaeology and science in India" (in en). Contributions to Indian Sociology 45 (1): 55–83. doi:10.1177/006996671004500103. ISSN 0069-9667.
- ↑ Bhatt, Chetan (2000-01-01). "Dharmo rakshati rakshitah : Hindutva movements in the UK". Ethnic and Racial Studies 23 (3): 559–593. doi:10.1080/014198700328999. ISSN 0141-9870.
- ↑ Schug, Gwen Robbins; Walimbe, Subhash R., eds (2016-06-08) (in en). A Companion to South Asia in the Past. doi:10.1002/9781119055280. ISBN 9781119055280. https://semanticscholar.org/paper/c8d0e38c9ccb2abbc20b0560ebadc87fa6f6677e.
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