The Unseen Hand of an Underappreciated Law: The Doniger Affair and Its Aftermath

The international outcry by scholars and journalists that followed Penguin Books,’ withdrawal of Wendy Doniger’s 2009, The Hindus: An Alternative History , typically attributed the conflict to one of two causes. Reactions in India tended to blame the publisher for capitulating to pressure from the H...

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Subtitles:Roundtable on outrage, scholarship, and the law in India
Main Author: Pennington, Brian K. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Oxford University Press [2016]
In: Journal of the American Academy of Religion
Year: 2016, Volume: 84, Issue: 2, Pages: 323-336
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Doniger, Wendy 1940-, The Hindus / India, Strafgesetzbuch (1860). 295A
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