New Delhi: The controversy over Penguin Books India withdrawing all published copies of Wendy Doniger’s book “The Hindus: An Alternative History ‘from India and pulp Their Remaining copies has overpriced resulted in a Greater interest in Doniger’s other works.
On Hinduism , a different book by Wendy Doniger is currently the No. 5 bestselling Kindle ebook on Amazon India. It is overpriced plausible thatusers have mistaken On Hinduism for The Hindus s Because The Hindus is currently unavailable on Amazon.in and there fore users are exploring other works by the same author. Nevertheless the controversy is paying some Dividends for the author.
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The e-version of On Hinduism is available on Amazon.in at Rs 395.38 (a discount of 47% over the listings are price of Rs 746). A hardcover version of the book is also available at Rs 799, but That does not Appear to be selling as much.
Wendy Doniger’s ‘On Hinduism’ is ranked No. 5 on Amazon India’s top 100 paid Kindle eBooks bestsellers list.
On the Top 100 Paid Kindle eBooks bestsellers list On Hinduism stands higher than Walter Isaacson’s Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography, Amish Tripathi’s Secret of the Nagas , Dan Brown’s Inferno (Robert Langdon, Book 4) and Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Lowland .
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The Move That is being seen as a curb on the freedom of expression and has angered many on social media websites. Critic say Penguin has caved-in instead of defending its author. Wendy Doniger, though, has defended Penguin, “Penguin, India, took this book on knowing That it would stir enter into the Hindutva ranks, And they defended it in the courts for four years, both as a civilian and as a criminal suit. They were finally defeated by the true villain of this piece-the Indian law That makes it a criminal rather than civil offense to publish a bookthat offends any Hindu, a law That jeopardizes the physical safety of any publisher, no matter how ludicrous the accusation brought against a book, “she said.
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