Thanks for sharing this Audrey. I feel we should launch some kind of petition and express a collective condemnation. This is so totally unacceptable that we have to respond as a scholarly community. 

I am not sure whether it would be more effective to address the petition to Malhotra himself, demanding that he admit his guilt and apologize, or would it be more worthwhile to address it to the publishers in question?  

Best,J

On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 3:16 AM, Audrey Truschke <audrey.truschke@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear Colleagues,

List members may be interested in the growing story of alleged plagiarism of several scholars, including a list member, by Rajiv Malhotra. The story has been largely developing on twitter (#message4rajiv). Also see the nice summary on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/hinduism/comments/3c8quf/confirmed_widespread_plagiarism_found_in_hindu/

Audrey Truschke
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Religious Studies
Stanford University

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