“I myself am by both temperament and training inclined to texts. I am neither an archaeologist nor an art historian; I am a Sanskritist, indeed a recovering Orientalist, of a generation that framed its study of Sanskrit with Latin and Greek rather than Urdu or Tamil. I’ve never dug anything up out of the ground or established the date of a sculpture. I’ve labored all my adult life in the paddy fields of Sanskrit, since I know ancient India best.”

— Wendy Doniger

Source: The Hindus: An Alternative History https://books.google.co.in/books?id=nNsXZkdHvXUC&pg=PA35, Oxford University Press, 30 September 2010, p. 35.

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