Praise for Wendy Doniger's The Hindus: An Alternative History
Full Reviews
Scott McLemee, “Scholarship or Sacrilege?” Inside Higher Ed, March 17, 2010.
David Shulman, "A Passion for Hindu Myths." The New York Review of Books, November 19, 2009.
David Arnold, “Beheading Hindus, and other alternative aspects of Wendy Doniger's history of a mythology.” The Times Literary Supplement, July 29, 2009.
Pankaj Mishra, "Another Incarnation." The New York Times Sunday Book Review, April 26, 2009, p. 20.
The Daily Salty, "The Rage boys rage again." March 29, 2010.
Asam Rafiqui, "In Defense Of Doubt, or How Intellectual Walls Have A Terrible Way Of Leaking," The Idea of India, March 27, 2010.
Diwas Kc, “Aside the chariot: 'The Hindus: An Alternative History,' by Wendy Doniger." Himal Southasian. March 2010.
Rajesh C. Oza, “Hinduism: Holy Cow! Or Sacred Cow?” India Currents: The Complete Indian American Magazine, February 23, 2010.
Vithal C Nadkami, “Karma sans kama leads to liberation.” The Economic Times. 20 Feb 2010.
Jagadananda Das, “The Two Rasa-Lilas, Again.” Jagat, January 16, 2010.
Karen R. Long, "Wendy Doniger's 'The Hindus' is courageous, controversial and a capstone to a..." The Cleveland Plain Dealer, January 10, 2010.
Devdutt Pattanaik, “Genesis of Culture, Motifs of Change.” Business World, November 20, 2009.
Georganna Hancock, Review, blogcritics.org, November 9, 2009; Review, A Writer’s Edge, November 10, 2009; Summer Reading Report, August 19, 2009.
Alaiwah! November 8, 2009.
Ashok Malik, “Culture club,” Hindustan Times, November 6, 2009.
Sunil Khilnani, “When Shloka Speaks to Shloka.” Outlook India, November 2, 2009.
A. K. Bhattacharya, “Getting the spirit right.” Business Standard, October 31, 2009.
Sheela Reddy, “Ram Was Happy With Sita. . . Indulging In Every Way. . .And Then He Threw Her Out.” Outlook India, October 26, 2009.
Devdutt Pattanaik, “I Never Poke Fun at any Hindus.” Midday, October 25, 2009. Also in Business World and Sunday Midday (Mumbai).
Chandrahas Choudhury, “Hinduism: What you didn’t know.” Livemint.com, & The Wall Street Journal, October 24, 2009.
“Noompa,” "Wendy Doniger And The Hindu Legacy.” Chasing Fat Tails, October 21, 2009.
Nilanjana S. Roy, “Writing about faith: Alternative histories.” Business Standard, October 20, 2009.
Bibek Debroy, “Om School.” Indian Express, October 10, 2009.
G. Sampath, “Why did Hinduism never become an 'organized' religion like Christianity or Islam?” DNA, October 4, 2009. Also posted on Communalism Watch.
Salil Tripathi, “Other People’s Religion: Wendy Doniger returns the study of Hinduism to its rich, endless love of debate.” Tehelka, 5 September 2009.
Salil Tripathi, “God’s Own Eye.” Tehelka, 5 September 2009.
McComas Taylor, “Review of Doniger.” South Asia Masala, August 10, 2009.
Ananda Vajpeyi, “Sea of Stories.” The National, July 31, 2009.
Amit Batabyal, Frontstreetreviews, July 30, 2009.
Kittye Delle Robbins-Herring, The Feminist Review, June 23, 2009.
Piali Roy, "A skeptical eye on Hinduism." The Globe and Mail, June 08, 2009.
V. V. Raman, Reflections on Wendy Doniger, The Hindus: An Alternative History. Reprinted in Hindu Council of the Caribbean, Tuesday, April 28, 2009; South Asia Mail, May 6, 2009.
Arthur Dudney, Saja Forum, May 3, 2009.
Tunku Varadarajan, “A People and their Karma,” The Wall Street Journal, April 2, 2009.
Michael Dirda, "Passages From India." The Washington Post, March 19, 2009.
Short Reviews / Best-book lists
Benjamin Schwartz, Books of the Year. The Atlantic Monthly, December 2009.
Chiki Sarkar, “A Good Shelfful: The Best Books of 2009.” Outlook India, December 28, 2009.
Sunil Sethi, “The Best Books of 2009,” Business Standard, December 26, 2009.
Tunku Varadarajan, The Daily Beast, “Our Favorite Books of 2009.” December 22, 2009.
William Dalrymple, “Authors’ Recommendations,” Business Standard, December 19, 2009.
Chandrahas Choudhury, "Books of 2009: Nonfiction." Ultrabrown, December 16, 2009.
"Best Books of 2009." The Washington Post, December 13, 2009.
Printer’s Row, “Our favorite non-fiction of 2009.” Chicago Tribune, December 4, 2009.
Books of the Year, Part II, New Statesman, November 26, 2009.
Peter Stothard, Blogs and Stories. The Daily Beast, 15 September, 2009.
S. Pactor on Amazon.com, April 19, 2009.
Elton Hall on Amazon.com, April 22, 2009.
Headlines
Neha Tara Mehta, "Rushdie to pen his life after fatwa," India Today, 14 March 2010.
Ashok Malik, "When the fringe benefits." Hindustan Times, March 7, 2010.
“Support for 'The Hindus: An Alternative History' by Wendy Doniger," March 7, 2010.
