Steve Farmer

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Steve Farmer is a Marxist political activist often accused of being anti-Hindu.

He worked for the American National Security Administration (NSA) in the 1960.

Among his pastime activities are the claim that he allegedly tried to infiltrate Hindu Internet forums and groups using fake Hindu names (like Raja Chadra).

  • The intensely political and non-academic nature of Witzel’s discourse can be gauged from the fact that while he berates my ignorance, he invited Steve Farmer, his new collaborator, to speak at the Harvard Round Table, on the stratification of Vedic Texts recently. Despite the fact that Farmer does not know even one Indian language, leave alone Vedic! ... Witzel and Farmer recently wrote for the “Frontline”, a Marxist biweekly published in India. I am told that Witzel’s friend and “cohort” (Edit.) Steve Farmer, is a staunch admirer of Karl Marx. He has admitted publicly to having a large portrait of Karl Marx on the wall of his bedroom. If this does not show his “bent of mind”, the kind of mind which automatically links him and every other admirer of Marx to the massacres of Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot, who were one and all fervent Marxists, I fail to see how even the most rabid Hindutva supporter can, by any stretch of terminology, imagination and free association, be linked to the totalitarian ideologies of early 20th century Europe.
    • Talageri, 2001.
  • [Incidentally, this Farmer, who seems to be a political lobbyist of the worst and slimiest kind, is now a full-time India-baiter in collaboration with Witzel. Anyone who wants to see to what low levels of sick polemics AIT writing can sink, and to see political lobbyism (in the field of historical studies) at its most blatant, and jeering juvenility at its cheapest and most vitriolic, should go through the writings of Steve Farmer. The joint crusade of these two shysters, one an academician and the other a pure jeer-leader, is now directed not only against the OIT but against anything and everything Indian: recent projects of this duo include the ―debunking‖ of all kinds of ―Indian myths‖, including ―Indian myths‖ about standardized systems of weights and measures and brick-sizes in the Harappan sites! The writings are self-revealing, and require no additional commentary. Needless to say, this present book will lead to the launching of an all-out Mother of all Battles on the propaganda and defamation front.].
    • Talageri, 2008
  • It is also interesting to note, as revealed on public list in September 2000, that Farmer has put up a portrait of Karl Marx on his wall 90 and that he was very fond of it. Another post reveals that the portrait is on the wall behind his desk. Is this to provide Farmer with inspiration for his writings? What does Witzel think of this behavior of his very close friend? (Vigil, 'Thus Spake Professor Michael Witzel A Harvard University Case Study in Prejudice?' (2006))
  • Special attention also needs to be paid to Witzel’s several disconcerting works, including his role in the SARVA project led by the Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies at Harvard University and the project ‘Simulating the Evolution of Political-Religious Extremism: Implication for International Policy Decisions’, led by Witzel and Farmer. It goes beyond an academic exercise and aims to research the impact of technology use by Hindu movements and provide policy advice; as Rajiv Malhotra and Aravind Neelakandan explain in Breaking India, “Steve Farmer explains on his webpage that its goal is to 'allow policy analysts and historians to build cultural simulations without any formal programming'. The term 'cultural simulations' means the ability to simulate 'what if' the USA were to collaborate with group X against group Y, and various permutations and combinations of scenarios for such 'cultural interventions' in India. One can see similar theoretical interventions actually being implemented in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq and Yemen.”
    • Manogna Sastry, in Ten heads of Ravana : a critique of Hinduphobic scholars. (2023). Garuda Prakashan Private Limited. quoting Malhotra, Rajiv and Neelakandan, Aravindan. 2011. Breaking India: Western Interventions in Dravidian and Dalit Faultlines. Amaryllis.

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