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| Dinanath Batra had filed a case saying The Hindus: An Alternative History had hurt his religious feelings. |
December 7, 2015, NewsCrunch
US academic Wendy Doniger's book The Hindus, which had drawn the ire of right-wing groups, is back on sale in India.
Penguin India had withdrawn and pulped The Hindus: An Alternative History in February 2014 after an RSS ideologue Dina Nath Batra filed a case saying it had hurt his religious feelings.
A new publishing house Speaking Tiger has printed 7,000 copies of the book, which are being cautiously displayed at the retail book shops, reports Mumbai Mirror.
The copies of the book can also be bought online at Flipkart and Amazon.
Speaking Tiger was founded in September 2014 by Manas Saikia and Ravi Singh, who was Doniger's editor in Penguin India.
Saikia told Mirror that Penguin withdrew the book as they did not want to spend money in defending Wendy Doniger. "
It would have been thrown out in High Court...I have read the book and I am a Hindu myself. I didn't find anything that was upsetting," Saikia added.