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@vjgtweets Congratulations !!!

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@asc89 Of course, per capita productivity is merely a first-pass filter. Lots of confounding factors not adequately assessed if only a per capita metric is used.

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@asc89 Not to mention that quantity amounts to quality, given the number of companies Indian immigrants have founded! Are there enough, say, N. Zealanders to makeup the deficit if productive Indian immigrants were to be excluded from America?

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@samas777 @clary_co Fwiw, Sushant Sareen has criticized this. See his timeline for a short thread that includes others who disagree with the RSS person. Sareen would likely know of any changes in GOI's stance, I should think. Still, you may be right about an impending change.

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@GhorAngirasa Glad you're back!

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@Saatvata @adheesh1 @yajnadevam @YuvrajS2012P Agree. Also no 'in principle' assumption re the nature of the 'ur text' is required in such reconstruction. Think of the analogous method(s) in phylogenetic systematics: mapping distribution of 'shared-derived' characteristics is all one needs to construct a phylogenetic tree.

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@adheesh1 @Saatvata @yajnadevam @YuvrajS2012P Doesnt that depend on the manuscript(s) and/or regional variants 'phylogeny'? Sukhthankar was quite rigorous in his approach.

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@gottabgr8 @vjgtweets @AmitMajmudar Which is to say, the term 'subaltern' doesn't carve Indian society at its joints. Rather, it is is best thought of as a normative/prescriptive concept, not descriptive. One day, left-theologians hope and pray, the Subaltern will Appear in India. n/n

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@gottabgr8 @vjgtweets @AmitMajmudar Sometimes, yes, 'subaltern' groups are more 'tolerant'. Sometimes, no: Consider the composition of the 'non-elite' movement for the Rama Mandir (both those in the crowd that fateful day, and those not in the crowd who, e.g., helped to send bricks). 1/n

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@mihirpshah Or is this more likely at non HYPSM college admissions?

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@mihirpshah @zagrebbi @HMBrough_ @cremieuxrecueil Just to clarify for myself: Is your argument that--regardless of the merit of desi applicants-- the increased nos of desi applicants (at every tier?) relative to other ethnicities necessarily translates into a higher rejection rate? Thanks in advance!

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@AkhiPill @vjgtweets Btw, if you are interested in Mimamsa, Ganganatha Jha's 'Purva Mimamsa In Its Sources' is a great book.

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@veenaraman @rohanpaul_ai Prof., if your schedule permits it, could you point to a review article(s) that explores this issue? Thanks in advance.

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@vjgtweets @AkhiPill Ganeri: 'Lost Age Of Reason: Philosophy In Early Modern India 1450-1700', in which Ganeri of course deliberates on the nature of 'modernity' in Indian analytic philosphy (as he phrases it) in that time period, focusing on Raghunath Siromani among others. n/n

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@vjgtweets @AkhiPill Phillips' books are quite valuable: 'Classical Indian Metaphysics', 'Nyaya Sutra--Selections with Early Commentaries (w/ Matthew Dasti), 'Jewel Of Reflection...' (his translation of Gangesa's Tattvacintamani). Also, 'Vindication Of The World...' (festschrift for Phillips). 3/n

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@vjgtweets @AkhiPill This self-designation as 'Navya' was an explicit acknowledgement of a break from the past, yet the goal was to place Nyaya on a sounder footing. Many of these thinkers (e.g., Raghunath Siromani, Gangesa Upadhyaya) were also staunch theists in the dharmic traditions. 2/2

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@vjgtweets @AkhiPill Poignant observation from Naipaul. And yet, 'modernity' in India need not end up in a decisive break with tradition and ritual: One wonders what Naipaul would have made of Navya-Nyaya (my hyphenization). 1/2

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@teasri @unraveaero Seems positively tropical from our perch!!!