Michel Danino Explained

Michel Danino
Birth Place:, France
Nationality:French
Indian
Occupation:Writer
Organization:IIT Gandhinagar
Honours:Padma Shri

Michel Danino (born 4 June 1956) is a French-born Indian writer.[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

Danino 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 wrote The Lost River: On The Trail of the Sarasvati (2010), 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 of one of Danino's works, Sri Aurobindo and Indian Civilization, is that it was lacking 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. Heehs added that Danino selectively cherry-picked quotes from his draft-manuscripts and ignored his published works, which were far more nuanced. 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]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Pande Daniel. Vaihayasi. The Sarasvati was more sacred than Ganga. May 22, 2010 . Rediff.com. 8 August 2011. Technically, I am not a 'foreigner': I adopted Indian citizenship some years ago..
  2. Web site: Michel Danino . IIT Gandhinagar . 12 November 2013. 4 January 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170104112249/http://www.iitgn.ac.in/faculty/humanities/michel.htm. dead.
  3. Web site: Ministry of Home Affairs Press Note . 25 January 2017 . Padma Awards . dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20170129231739/http://www.padmaawards.gov.in/PDFS/PadmaAwards-2017_25012017.pdf. 2017-01-29.
  4. News: The Times of India. TOI Crest: Quick review. 17 February 2020. 29 May 2010.
  5. Rajamani. V.. 2010. Review of The Lost River – On the Trail of the Sarasvati. Current Science. 99. 12. 1842–1843. 0011-3891. 24073512.
  6. Heehs. Peter. 2003. Shades of Orientalism: Paradoxes and Problems in Indian Historiography. History and Theory. 42. 2. 169–195. 0018-2656. 3590880. 10.1111/1468-2303.00238.
  7. Guha. Sudeshna. 2005. Negotiating Evidence: History, Archaeology and the Indus Civilisation. Modern Asian Studies. 39. 2. 399–426. 0026-749X. 3876625. 10.1017/S0026749X04001611. 145463239 .
  8. Chadha. Ashish. 2011-02-01. Conjuring a river, imagining civilisation: Saraswati, archaeology and science in India. Contributions to Indian Sociology. en. 45. 1. 55–83. 10.1177/006996671004500103. 144701033 . 0069-9667.
  9. Bhatt. Chetan. 2000-01-01. Dharmo rakshati rakshitah : Hindutva movements in the UK. Ethnic and Racial Studies. 23. 3. 559–593. 10.1080/014198700328999. 144085595 . 0141-9870.
  10. Book: 2016-06-08. Schug. Gwen Robbins. Walimbe. Subhash R.. A Companion to South Asia in the Past. en. 10.1002/9781119055280. 9781119055280. 132664143 .

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