Thread by @shrikanth_krish

While Indian writers may not necessarily be v good at "Big picture" Indology on broad themes (with a lot of sociology thrown in) like say Sheldon Pollock, they have produced many a great work on specific texts, specific traditions

PV Kane's work on Dharmashastras a good example

https://twitter.com/AatishTaseer/status/1137689216299819008

The Ramakrishna Mission has produced many sterling works on Vedanta

One text I'd like to highlight is Swami Gambhirananda's translation of Madhusudana Saraswati's Gudartha Dipika (on which I did a thread a month ago)

What Indians aren't too good at is "big picture" writing

They don't write good introductory works on broad themes..

E.g. Books like "On Hinduism" (a Wendy Doniger title)
or Bhakti Yoga (an Edwin Bryant title)

Sadly for most people not brought up in a v traditional way, the orientation to a tradition happens through introductory books

Big picture books

So if Aatesh Taseer wants to get a primer on Sri-Vaishnavism, there is no one-volume well written Indian work he can readily turn to

This is admittedly an Indian failure.

Good concise one volume works aren't our forte

Much of Indian scholarship exists in the form of lectures, arcane upanyaasas on youtube...

Much of it is not written down and marketed well