[INDOLOGY] Wendy Doniger's book to be withdrawn in India by Penguin India

[Valerie J Roebuck]

Thank you for telling us about this. I am a Penguin India author too, and have emailed them with my concerns.

Valerie J Roebuck
Manchester, UK

On 11 Feb 2014, at 10:14, Dominik Wujastyk <wujastyk at GMAIL.COM> wrote:

> ​Dear colleagues,
> 
> ​​I am appalled to learn of yet another book-banning episode in India, this time ​affecting our colleague Wendy Doniger.​
> 
> ​Yesterday, if I understand correctly, Penguin India agreed to withdraw the book rather than fight the law case:
> 
> ​http://scroll.in/article/penguin-agrees-to-pulp-us-scholars-book-on-hinduism-on-pressure-from-fundamentalists?id=656104
> 
> ​If you read the five objections offered against the book, they are risible.  It beggars belief that any court, much less a publisher, would take objections of this type seriously.
> 
> As a Penguin Delhi author myself, I shall be writing to Penguin India to protest this dark-ages ruling.  ​ ​
> 
> ​Penguin Delhi's contact details are here: http://www.penguinbooksindia.com/en/content/contact-us
> 
> Dominik Wujastyk
> University of Vienna​
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