NEW DELHI: Copies of American scholar Wendy Doniger‘s The Hindus: An Alternative History will be withdrawn and pulped in India, thanks to a legal wrangle that publisher Penguin found itself in.
A copy of a settlement agreement between Penguin and an organisation called Shiksha Bachao Andolan that found the book insulting to Hindus, leaked on the document-sharing website Scribd.com. This was following a three-year-old civil lawsuit in the Saket District Court in New Delhi.
Soon after the news broke, torrent links to pirated e-copies of the book began to be shared online. Many on Twitter shared links to torrent websites where the book could be downloaded, or offered to share the PDFs or Epub version of the book themselves.
According to the settlement, Penguin will recall and withdraw all copies of the book “with immediate effect”. Further, it says that “all the recalled/withdrawn/unsold copies of [the book] shall be pulped” by the publisher. This task is to be executed within six months. – Times of India, 11 February 2014
Download the book here (Box) & here (Google)
See also
- Dinanath Batra: Here comes the book police
- Petition seeking Penguin Books apology for Wendy Doniger’s book
- Wendy Doniger does a doggie – Shrinivas Tilak
- The Doniger-Penguin Agenda: Demeaning Hindus and Disparaging Their Gods – Ranjani Saigal with Shrinivas Tilak & Vishal Agarwal
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