Mishra on Murty Classical Library of India

       In the Wall Street Journal Pankaj Mishra finds: 'An ambitious new library of Indian literature shows the cultural riches ignored by today's Hindu nationalists' in The Many Strands of Indian Identity, profiling the promising-sounding Murty Classical Library of India (which I've previously mentioned quite a few times).
       As he notes:

This elite's fossilized notions of India's Sanskritic past came to obscure the vitality of the country's many other old and still existing cultures.

       And:

The Murty Library doesn't only repair a devastating breach in India's cultural memory -- one akin to the disappearance of Greek learning from Europe in the Middle Ages. It also facilitates a continuing and potentially revolutionary reassessment of how we understand the world's political as well as literary history.

       I haven't seen these volumes yet, but I am very much looking forward to them.