Penguin India publishing house says it did its best to defend an American author's religious history against objections from a conservative Hindu group but was forced by "intolerant and restrictive" Indian laws to remove the book from sale.<br /><br />The publisher's decision this week to pull and pulp all copies of historian Wendy Doniger's "The Hindus: An Alternative History" shocked writers and intellectuals in India.<br /><br />Doniger has defended Penguin India in a statement, saying the publisher had fought for four years against a lawsuit by the Hindu group, which objected to the book's describing certain Hindu myths as fiction.<br /><br />Penguin India said in a statement released Friday that it was obliged "to respect the laws of the land ... however intolerant and restrictive those laws may be."<br /><br /><br />For More information on this news visit : http://www.newsx.com/<br />Connect with us on Social platform at : http://www.facebook.com/newsxonline<br />Subscribe to our YouTube Channel : http://www.youtube.com/newsxlive
