In the early 1920s, Jaydayal Goyandka and Hanuman Prasad Poddar, two Marwari businessmen-turned-spiritualists, set up the Gita Press and Kalyan magazine. As of early 2014, Gita Press had sold close to 72 million copies of the Gita, 70 million copies of Tulsidas's works and 19 million copies of scriptures like the Puranas and Upanishads. And while most other journals of the period, whether religious, literary or political, survive only in press archives, Kalyan now has a circulation of over 200,000, and its English counterpart, Kalyana-Kalpataru, of over 100,000. Gita Press created an empire that spoke in a militant Hindu nationalist voice. Featuring an extraordinary cast of characters - buccaneering entrepreneurs and hustling editors, nationalist ideologues and religious fanatics - this is essential (and exciting) reading for our times.
© 2019 Storyside IN (Audiobook): 9789353377526
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In the early 1920s, Jaydayal Goyandka and Hanuman Prasad Poddar, two Marwari businessmen-turned-spiritualists, set up the Gita Press and Kalyan magazine. As of early 2014, Gita Press had sold close to 72 million copies of the Gita, 70 million copies of Tulsidas's works and 19 million copies of scriptures like the Puranas and Upanishads. And while most other journals of the period, whether religious, literary or political, survive only in press archives, Kalyan now has a circulation of over 200,000, and its English counterpart, Kalyana-Kalpataru, of over 100,000. Gita Press created an empire that spoke in a militant Hindu nationalist voice. Featuring an extraordinary cast of characters - buccaneering entrepreneurs and hustling editors, nationalist ideologues and religious fanatics - this is essential (and exciting) reading for our times.
© 2019 Storyside IN (Audiobook): 9789353377526
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Audiobook: 2 January 2019
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Shreyashi
23 Aug 2021
Biased and hindumisic. By this logic every publisher of Bible or Kuran is equally fanatic and bigoted. I don't see how hate mongering books like these even get peddled. Perhaps the author decrying religion religious freedoms is not aware of the latest pew survey about the freedom of religion that people enjoy in this country.
Qabeer
10 Jul 2021
A masterpiece with detailed citations of the works it quotes. It exposes the foundations of hatred driven misogynist ideology of Hindutva and this is why it gave piles to other upper caste Hindus, who called the book biased.
Balaji
18 Dec 2020
One can understand how worse the book is, when the cover shows appreciations from Arundhati Roy and Ramachandra Guha.Terribly biased and not recommended for the younger generation, who do not know the reality.
Deepak
13 Oct 2021
Biased and bigoted.
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