Wisdom Quarterly; Nina Porzucki, author Prof. Wendy Doniger, PRI's The World (pri.org)
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The history book, which its author [Harvard, Oxford Indologist] Wendy Doniger has described as an alternative, Howard Zinn-esque version of the history of Hinduism, has been accused of denigrating Hindus and Hindu [Brahminical Vedic] traditions.
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“It tells an aspect of the history of Hinduism that is unpleasant for a certain type of Hindu, what I would call a fundamentalist Hindu, to accept,” said Doniger, who is a professor of history of religion at the University of Chicago.
The lawsuit against Doniger and Penguin was filed by Dinanath Batra, a leader of the conservative Hindu group, Shiksha Bachao Andolan Samiti.
Among their specific accusations is that the book wrongly includes a map of India that excludes Kashmir, the subject of a territorial dispute with neighboring Pakistan. [Hey, Doniger, even we think it's going too far!
This isn’t the first time that Doniger has encountered an impassioned and vocal response to her ideas about Hinduism. More
The lawsuit against Doniger and Penguin was filed by Dinanath Batra, a leader of the conservative Hindu group, Shiksha Bachao Andolan Samiti.
Among their specific accusations is that the book wrongly includes a map of India that excludes Kashmir, the subject of a territorial dispute with neighboring Pakistan. [Hey, Doniger, even we think it's going too far!
This isn’t the first time that Doniger has encountered an impassioned and vocal response to her ideas about Hinduism. More
The Politics of Sexuality in Ancient India: The Indebtedness of the Kamasutra to the Arthasastra
The
depth and extent of the influence of the textbook of politics (Arthasastra) on the textbook of sexuality (Kamasutra) is surprising,
most evident in the high incidence of distrust, betrayal, and force in
sexual relationships.
Shivdasani Lecture by Prof. Wendy Doniger, November 2013
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And the subsequent influence of the Kamasutra
upon not only the erotic literary traditions of India but the eroticism
of the bhakti [devotional] tradition, particularly in Bengal, accounts in part for
the darkness of that tradition, its emphasis on divine abandonment,
betrayal, and even violence.
Prof. Wendy Doniger [M.A., Ph.D. (Harvard
University),
D.Phil. (Oxford University)] is Mircea Eliade Distinguished
Service Professor of the History of Religions in the Divinity School,
University of Chicago, and in the Department of South Asian Languages
and Civilizations, the Committee on Social Thought.
Prof. Doniger's
research and teaching focus on translating, interpreting, and comparing
elements of Hinduism through modern contexts of gender, sexuality, and
identity. Her courses in mythology address themes in cross-cultural
expanses, such as death, dreams, evil, horses, sex, and women; her
courses in Hinduism cover a broad spectrum that, in addition to
mythology... More
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