Wendy Doniger is now under attack for 2013 book

March 01, 2014 21:42

Another book on Hinduism by American indologist Wendy Doniger has come under attack from the same Delhi-based group which had compelled the publishers of an earlier work by her to withdraw the title.

Shiksha Bachao Andolan Samiti has demanded that the Aleph Book Company stop sales and pulp all remaining copies of Doniger's book On Hinduism, published in 2013.

Dina Nath Batra, who had led the charge against Doniger's previous book, said that the contents of On Hinduism were, like the previous work, "malicious and offending".

"She has used derogatory terms for Hindu deities, which hurts the sentiments of devotees," Batra charged.

The book is part of a conspiracy hatched by "pseudo secularists" to tarnish the image of Hindu culture and India, he alleged

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