Julie L. Kessler
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Controversial books meet different fates

I recently wrote about censorship and the fate of Adolph Hitler’s notorious Mein Kampf. That book was originally published in 1925 and highlighted the ravings of a poisoned mind. Now, in 2014, the spectre of censorship–which I feel should not cast a shadow even over trash like Mein Kampf–is appearing again in relation to a book. But this time, it’s a book of serious scholarship that has been successfully suppressed in India by a religious pressure group. The Hindus: An Alternative History, by Wendy Doniger, a University of Chicago historian, has been withdrawn by its publisher, Penguin Books India. My latest article in the LADJ which appeared on February 19, 2014 deals with this chilling development.

 

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Date Posted:  Feb. 20 2014