Dear friends,
In 1998, I published The Roots of Ayurveda with Penguin India. They did a great job and I was happy to be published by them, at the time. In 2001 they produced a second updated edition that included some corrections.
In protest at Bertelsmann's and Penguin India's craven submission to a right-wing challenge to my friend Wendy Doniger's book
The Hindus: An Alternative History and their subsequent withdrawal of her book from the Indian market, I withdrew my book from the Penguin India and the Indian market.
The 3rd, 2003 edition of Roots (Penguin, London & New York, ISBN 0-140-44824-1) was a major editorial update, completely re-typeset, and with a new index. If you use the book, please always read and cite the 3rd edition. Not just because of the politics,
but because it's a significantly better edition.