Moral brigade gets another Doniger book trashed

March 05, 2014 01:35

Within weeks of Penguin controversially recalling Wendy Doniger's book, The Hindus: An Alternative History, another publisher, Aleph, pulled out the American author's previous work, On Hinduism, on Tuesday.

Bookshops across Bangalore received calls from representatives of Aleph Book Company, promoted by Rupa Publications, seeking return of all copies of the book.

Confirming the move, an Aleph spokesman said, "We don't want to get involved in any controversy. Officials from our Delhi office sent a clear message to us -- recall all copies of On Hinduism we had sold to across Karnataka. We got back about 100 copies till Tuesday evening."

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".

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