Srinagar Heinrich von Stietencron (1933–2018), University of Tübingen, Germany Iravatham Mahadevan (1930–2018)- Indian Council of Historical Research Stanley Wolpert (1927–2019)- University of California, Los Angeles (emeritus) Karel Werner (1925–2019) Stanley Insler (1937–2019), Edward E. Salisbury Professor of Sanskrit and Comparative Philology, Yale University Bannanje Govindacharya (1936–2020), scholar in Tatva-vada school of philosophy and Vedic tradition Contemporary scholars with university posts Romila Thapar (1931–present), Professor of Ancient History, Emerita, at the Jawaharlal Nehru University Dietmar Rothermund (1933 - 2020), Professor of the history of South Asia at the Ruprecht-Karls University in Heidelberg Hermann Kulke (1938–present), Professor of South and Southeast Asian history at the Department of History, Kiel University Asko Parpola (1941–present)- Professor Emeritus of Indology and South Asian Studies at the University of Helsinki Patrick Olivelle (1942–present) Professor Emeritus of Asian Studies at the University of Texas at Austin Michael Witzel (1943–present)- Wales Professor of Sanskrit at Harvard University Ronald Inden- Professor Emeritus of History, South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago George L. Hart (1945–present)- Professor Emeritus of Tamil at the University of California, Berkeley Stephanie Jamison (1948–present), Distinguished Professor of Asian Languages and Cultures and of Indo-European Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles Alexis Sanderson (1948–present) Emeritus Fellow and former Spalding Professor of Eastern Religion and Ethics at All Souls College, Oxford Michael D. Willis (The British Museum) Gérard Fussman (1940–present) Collège de France Wendy Doniger (1940–present) University of Chicago Divinity School, as Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions Thomas Trautmann (1940–present), former Head of the Center for South Asian Studies, University of Michigan Kapil Kapoor (1940–present), well known scholar of English Literature, Linguistics, Paninan Grammar, Sanskrit Arts and Aesthetics, Director of Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla Shrivatsa Goswami (1950–present), Indian scholar of Hindu philosophy and art at (Banaras Hindu University), as well as Gaudiya Vaishnava religious leader. Edwin Bryant (1957–present) Rutgers University, New Jersey Other indologists Michel Danino, French-Indian author and historical negationist Koenraad Elst (1959–present), Hindutva author and, supporter of the Out of India theory Georg Feuerstein David Frawley, American Hindutva author, astrologer, and historical revisionist Rajiv Malhotra, Indian-American Hindutva author and activist Shrikant Talageri, Out of India proponent and Hindu nationalist Hans T. Bakker Steven J. Rosen, American ISKCON author, founding editor of The Journal of Vaishnava Studies Indology organisations Faculty of Sanskrit Vidya Dharma Vigyan, Banaras Hindu University Adyar Library and Research Centre, Chennai