​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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