Title: Scholarship or fraud?
Product review: Just because Kali's Child won AAR award some people seem to believe it passed the test of academic vigor. This is akin to saying since Enron hired third party accountants their accounting books are not cooked. We now know better. Atleast Enron hired third party, no such pretense is made in case of Indology. Jeffrey Kripal's Knowledge of Bengali is suspect, so is his scholarship. He is yet to accept a debate in Bengali language in an open forum speaks reams about his proficiency.There has been a scholarly rebuttal to Kripal at http://www.infinityfoundation.com/mandala/s_rv/s_rv_tyaga_kali1_frameset.htm. However Kripal declined to include Tyagananda's rebuttal in newer versions of the book. All this says more about state of Indology studies & Kripal than the later has to say about Ramakrishna.
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