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'''Malati J. Shendge''' (1934–2015) was an [[Indologist]]. She received her Ph.D in Buddhism from the [[University of Delhi]].<ref name=iij>“CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE.” Indo-Iranian Journal, vol. 10, no. 2/3, 1967, pp. 237–238. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/24650172.</ref> She had been a fellow of the [[Indian Council of Historical Research]], and of the [[Indian Institute of Advanced Study]], Shimla. She was a faculty member at [[Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi|Jawaharlal Nehru University]], and Founder Director (Hon.) of the Rang Datta Wadekar Centre for the study of Indian Tradition, Pune.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Yellapragada|first=Sudershan Rao|date=January–March 2016|title=In Memoriam|url=http://ichr.ac.in/newsletter/newsletter_jan_2016.pdf|journal=Newsletter|publisher=Indian Council of Historical Research|volume=13|issue=1|pages=29}}</ref>

==Theories==
Shendge has written a number of books on the connections between the [[Indus Valley civilization]] and [[Vedic culture]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UCEoAwAAQBAJ&q=Malati+Shendge+indology&pg=PT152|title=The Vedas: An Introduction to Hinduism's Sacred Texts|last=Dalal|first=Roshen|date=2014-04-15|publisher=Penguin UK|isbn=9788184757637}}</ref> Her early work, ''The Civilized Demons'', reinterprets the heavenly battle between the [[Asura]]s and the Devas described in the [[Rigveda]] as a historical record of an earthly war in the [[Indus Valley]] between the Asuras (identified by her as being the [[Assyrian people]]) already living in the valley as the [[Indus Valley civilisation|Harappan Civilization]], and the invading Devas (identified by her with the [[Aryan]]s).<ref name=tcd/> Her 1997 book ''The Language of the Harappans'' extends this theory by claiming that the unknown [[Harappan language]] was the [[Akkadian language]] of [[Mesopotamia]], and that [[Sanskrit]] is a descendant of Akkadian.<ref name=akkad/> In ''Unsealing the Indus Script'' (2009) she purports to decode the [[Indus script]] based on this theory.<ref name=coulmas/>

==Books==
* (1977) ''The Civilized Demons: the Harappans in Rig Veda''<ref name=tcd>Reviews of ''The Civilized Demons'': {{citation|title=none|last=Wilhelm|first=Rau|journal=Indo-Iranian Journal|volume=21|issue=4|date=October 1979|pages=281–282|jstor=24653349}}; {{citation|title=none|last=Nilmadhav|first=Sen|journal=Annals of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute|volume=65|issue=1/4|year=1984|pages=316–322|jstor=41693150}}</ref>
* (1989) ''Rigveda: The Original Meaning and its Recovery''
* (1993) ''Indian Historiography and Ethnolingustic History''
* (1996) ''The Aryas: Facts Without Fancy and Fiction. Abhinav. {{ISBN|9788170173182}}''
* (1995) ''Songs and Ruins: Rigveda in Harappan Setting''
* (1997) ''The Language of the Harappans: From Akkadian to Sanskrit. Abhinav. {{ISBN|81-7017-325-6}}''<ref name=akkad>{{cite news|accessdate=2019-10-10|newspaper=The Sunday Tribune|title=Was Akkadian the language of the Indus Valley civilisation?|first=Ajay Pratap|last=Singh|url=https://www.tribuneindia.com/2000/20000820/spectrum/main7.htm|date=20 August 2000|department=Spectrum}}</ref>
* (2004) ''Sat-Sashastrika Hevajratika''
* (2009) ''Unsealing the Indus Script: Anatomy of its Decipherment''<ref name=coulmas>{{Cite journal|last=Coulmas|first=Florian|date=2010-01-01|title=Sealed for eternity? Review of 'Unsealing the Indus Script. Anatomy of its Decipherment' Malati J. Shendge.|journal=Writing Systems Research|volume=2|issue=2|pages=169–171|doi=10.1093/wsr/wsq007|s2cid=143507856|issn=1758-6801}}</ref>
* (2009) ''Buddhahood in this Body: Japanese Esoteric Buddhism (Shin-gon) in Context''

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