[INDOLOGY] Fwd: Hitler and MLBD

[Artur Karp]

Hitlar among among the MLBD listed publications --- and Mr Modi for India's
premiership ---

A coincidence, really?

Best,

Artur



2014-05-16 15:40 GMT+02:00 <jacob at fabularasa.dk>:

> New Age Books is an associate of Motilal Banarsidass (
> mlbd.com/contactus.aspx). The website of the former (newagebooksindia.com)
> leads directly to the website of the latter (mlbd.com).
>
> Best,
> Jacob
>
> Toke Knudsen skrev den 2014-05-16 15:30:
>
>  Looking up the ISBN number of the book, it appears that it was
>> published by New Age Books on 1/1/2014; see
>> <http://www.lookupbyisbn.com/Search/Book/978-81-7822-464-0/1>.
>>
>> All best,
>> Toke
>>
>>
>>
>> On May 16, 2014, at 9:17 AM, Matthew Kapstein <mkapstei at uchicago.edu>
>> wrote:
>>
>>  Pirated or not, Mein Kampf has been a regular fixture of street-corner
>>> and railway station booksellers in India for decades. I recall it all over
>>> the place even during my first visit to India in 1970. What is surprising is
>>> to see a "respectable" publisher dealing with it. This is why I wanted
>>> to know whether MLBD has
>>> actually published it, or whether it appears only in their distribution
>>> list. In the latter case, higher
>>> management might not be at all responsible, though this would certainly
>>> be a great oversight
>>> on their part.
>>>
>>> In any case, it seems to me to be necessary to determine just what MLBD
>>> is doing with this, and
>>> then to make known to them that the Indological community (many of us at
>>> least) consider this
>>> to be unacceptable and that we will recommend that our libraries stop
>>> dealing with them if
>>> they are indeed committed to publishiing or distributing this particular
>>> item. I imagine that
>>> such a move would get their attention in a hurry.
>>>
>>> And, if they have indeed published it, I think we should insist very
>>> publically (e.g. in an op ed in
>>> The Times of India or The Hindu) that they have the thing "pulped."
>>>
>>> There's not much we can do about the fly-by-night publishers, but MLBD
>>> should know better.
>>>
>>> best to all,
>>> Matthew
>>>
>>> Matthew Kapstein
>>> Directeur d'études,
>>> Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes
>>>
>>> Numata Visiting Professor of Buddhist Studies,
>>> The University of Chicago
>>>
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