"“Our readership tends to be impatient of any kind of critical analysis,” wrote the editor of Calcutta’s respected weekly The Statesman when turning it down, referring to Hindu-Muslim riots that had resulted after Arnold Toynbee mentioned the prophet Mohammed in an article for the magazine."
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Sunanda K. Datta-Ray to Arthur Koestler, 10/15/69, MS2386/3. Editor of The Statesman in a reply explaining their refusal to publish Arthur Koestler's essay “Mahatma Gandhi—Yogi and Commissar, a Re-Valuation” quoted from Michael Scammell - Koestler_ The Literary and Political Odyssey of a Twentieth-Century Skeptic (2009, Random House) - chapter 45.
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