The surrender of a major publishing firm (Penguin India) over Wendy Doniger’s book The Hindus: An Alternative History, in a recent out-of-court settlement that involves the withdrawal of the book and the pulping of its copies, has rightly aroused much disquiet among all circles committed t
History Travel and Ethnology in the Renaissance: South India through European Eyes, 1250-1625 by Joan- Pau Rubies; Cambridge University Press, 2000 (Past and Present Publications); pp XXI+443, Rs 950.
