on the grounds that the book intentionally offended or outraged the religious sentiments of Hindus, an action punishable by criminal prosecution under Section 295A of the Indian Penal Code. In 2014, as part of a settlement agreement reached with plaintiff, The Hindus was recalled by Penguin India. Indian authors such as Arundhati Roy, Partha Chatterjee, Jeet Thayil, and Namwar Singh inveighed against the publisher's decision. The book has since been published in India by Speaking Tiger Books. Recognition 1989 elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1996 elected to the American Philosophical Society 2000 PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Award for excellence in multi-cultural literature, non-fiction, for Splitting the Difference 2002 Rose Mary Crawshay prize from the British Academy, for the best book about English literature written by a woman, for The Bedtrick 2008 Martin E. Marty Public Understanding of Religion Award from the American Academy of Religion 2015 Charles Homer Haskins Prize of the American Council of Learned Societies Works Doniger has written 16 books, translated (primarily from Sanskrit to English) with commentary nine other volumes, has contributed to many edited texts and has written hundreds of articles in journals, magazines and newspapers. These include New York Times Book Review, London Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement, The Times, The Washington Post, U.S. News & World Report, International Herald Tribune, Parabola, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Daedalus, The Nation, and the Journal of Asian Studies. Interpretive works Published under the name of Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty: Served as Vedic consultant and co-author, and contributed a chapter ("Part II: The Post-Vedic History of the Soma Plant," pp. 95–147) in Soma: Divine Mushroom of Immortality, by R. Gordon Wasson (New York: Harcourt Brace, 1968). Asceticism and Eroticism in the Mythology of Siva (Oxford University Press, 1973). The Ganges (London: Macdonald Educational, 1975). The Origins of Evil in Hindu Mythology (Berkeley: University of California, 1976). Women, Androgynes, and Other Mythical Beasts (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980). Dreams, Illusion, and Other Realities (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984 ). Tales of Sex and Violence: Folklore, Sacrifice, and Danger in the Jaiminiya Brahmana (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985). Other Peoples' Myths: The Cave of Echoes. (New York: Macmillan, 1988). Published under the name of Wendy Doniger: The Implied Spider: Politics and Theology in Myth. The 1996–1997 ACLS/AAR Lectures. New York: Columbia University Press, 1998. Splitting the Difference: Gender and Myth in Ancient