Hindu fanatics are celebrating after Penguin capitulated to
their demands and agreed to “pulp” all unsold of copies of
University of Chicago Wendy Doniger’s, The Hindus: An
Alternative History. They claim that her erotic
interpretations of Hinduism are just another form of
“neo-colonialism.”
Their jihad against Doniger won’t affect her much and maybe even
help her book sales. But it will ensure a dark future for
Hinduism.
For all their pretensions about learning, Hindus don’t fully
understand their religion because they haven’t made an academic
study out of it. Religious studies as a discipline doesn’t exist in
India. Nor will it if extremists are allowed to go on their
boob-banning ramapge. The best and most inquisitive Indian minds
won’t opt for fields ruled by narrow dogmatism. They’ll do
something else — or take a one-way ticket to America to study with
Doniger.
“Instead of resorting to censorhip,” I note in my Washington
Examiner column this morning, “Hindu obscurantists should
concentrate on addressing their own inadequacies.”
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