Scholarship and Pseudo-scholarship

What we know as scholarly in the domains of social and human knowledge may be just the opposite of being scholarly. I am not talking here about the formalism of the presentation but about the substance and more about its consequentialism. Scholarly presentations and performances enthralling their readers and audiences respectively may be inconsequential or seriously harmful. 

At first, what we feel and judge as scholarly or stupid is more about obedience to some commandment and managed consensus. And, in a more nuanced state, a piece of scholarship may be a handiwork of craft rather than an effort for some genuine factual, not make-believe, concern. Long-held values or power matrices determine what a community or a political community accept or rejects as a scholarship rather than their intrinsic worth doing the same.  

The worth of scholarship can be known by comparative histories and sociologies and their applications can even be tested in advance, and thereby it may be known whether any scholarly statement serves the general good without sacrificing the legitimate interests of any individual person or does not. 

Niraj Kumar Jha