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Wendy Doniger at Idea Exchange: 'Ancient Hinduism is very liberal. What’s being said in its name today makes no sense historically'
June 21, 2022 9:58 am
As one of the world’s foremost scholars of Hinduism, Sanskrit and mythology, Wendy Doniger has also found herself at the centre of contentious debates on the politics of knowledge, the study of religion, the insider-outsider readings of texts and traditions. Her book The Hindus: An Alternative History had to be withdrawn after a campaign against it in India in 2014.
The invisible censorship
February 27, 2014 5:05 am
Hinduism is not what rightwing ideologues say it is. But it is also not what a handful of privileged Western writers make it out to be.
President calls for tolerance, protesters clash
February 16, 2014 12:31 am
The police had to intervene to stop both protests.
The Hindus controversy: 'Angry' Wendy Doniger says Indian law true villain
February 12, 2014 1:43 pm
If legal means of publication fail, Internet has other ways of keeping books in circulation: Doniger.
Intolerable surrender
February 12, 2014 2:01 am
With the publisher’s cave-in on Wendy Doniger’s book, the republic of ideas and debate shrinks again.
Penguin India caves in, agrees to trash Wendy Doniger's book on Hinduism
February 12, 2014 9:02 am
All copies of Chicago Indologist Wendy Doniger’s seminal work to be trashed in 6 months in India.
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