Preaching Without Purpose

But he insinuates that the alleged pro-American views of the authors is ascribable to the funding sources of this book, which came from three well-known American foundations. By denigrating nine scholars from five different South Asian countries in this sweeping manner S K Singh reveals his inability to appreciate the nuances in these essays. Necessarily, they contain the idiosyncratic personal and national beliefs of the scholars coming from different backgrounds and ethos. They have both agreed and disagreed with the US perceptions of nuclear non-proliferation in South Asia. Incidentally, these perceptions are themselves not monolithic.

Strangely enough, S K Singh is currently involved with an institution devoted to the advance study of India alongwith the University of Pennsylvania. No doubt, American money from that source has been consecrated in the Ganga.