Christopher Minkowski

Christopher Zand Minkowski (born 13 May 1953) is an American academic, who has been Boden Professor of Sanskrit at the University of Oxford since 2005.

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 * Modern scholars, then, sought a method for containing Sanskrit’s potential to activate its cultural politics, by subjecting the study of Sanskrit to scholarly protocols which were antithetical to the language’s genius and charisma. They opted for a decidedly unromantic array of curatorial and antiquarian forms of scholarship: philologizing, cataloguing, typologizing, organizing into chronologies, and so on; eminently useful practices, no doubt, but none of them glamorous.
 * Minkowski, C. King David in Oudh: a Bible story in Sanskrit and the Just King at an Afghan court. Inaugural Lecture, Oxford University. (2006) quoted in Kak, S. Racism, Eurocentrism, and Indology.