| Summary/Abstract |
Wendy Doniger is a Professor of Religious History at the Chicago
University (USA). Her fame is for being an Indologist. In the West she
has guided highest number of Ph.D.s on Hindu religion and Sanskrit
texts. Considered such an authority on Hindus that she is also called
‘queen of Hinduism.’ Not long ago she was in news because of her
book The Hindus: An Alternative History (2009). It’s print version was
withdrawn from the market by the publisher Penguin-Viking. Some
Hindu organizations had lodged a plaint in the court asking for a ban
as wrong and defamatory statements against Hindu deities abound in
the book. During the court proceedings both parties to the case came
to a mutual settlement under which the book was withdrawn from the
market
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