A SURPRISING QUOTE: "It was primarily the Protestants rather than the Catholics who messed with Hinduism. Catholics, who had been in India for many centuries, recognized and appreciated many of their own traits in Hindus: the many gods corresponding to many saints; the pageantry, color, and occasional brutality of the imagery; the animal sacrifice that could be assimilated to the Paschal Lamb (or, as the case may be, the Paschal goat, still sacrificed in many Indian Catholic communities at Easter). The Protestants admired little in Hinduism but its texts and philosophy. The rest was a lot too much like Catholicism to suit their tastes." Pg 380.
Wendy Doniger's book is a tribute to Hinduism's complexity, not an insult Penguin's decision to destroy The Hindus: An Alternative History panders to an orthodox, bourgeois view of this great religion. Vijay Prashad. http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/feb/12/wendy-doniger-book-hinduism-penguin-hindus Full text: Petition seeking Penguin Books apology for Wendy Doniger's book http://ibnlive.in.com/news/full-text-of-petition-asking-penguin-books-for-an-apology/451419-40-100.html Give up your copyright, Penguin-Chicken! Lawrence Liang, readers serve legal notice on Doniger publisher http://www.legallyindia.com/201402144350/Bar-Bench-Litigation/readers-serve-legal-notice-on-penguin Penguin blames Indian laws for pulping Wendy Doniger's The Hindus http://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/penguin-blames-indian-laws-for-pulping-doniger-s-the-hindus/article1-1183845.aspx Madhu Menon @madmanweb: Ha, NDTV sneakily throws in a page where you can download "The Hindus" by Wendy Doniger (at the end of the show) http://mdhu.in/1divCsD -- FN Phone +91-832-2409490 Mobile +91-9822122436 Blog: http://goabooks.wordpress.com
