"I alerted Bloomsbury to the growing online controversy over Delhi Riots 2020, as did several other Bloomsbury authors, I did not call for its banning or pulping and have never supported the banning of any book. It is now being published by another press."
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William Dalrymple. About the controversy over the publication of the book '. As quoted in "Bloomsbury India pulls Delhi riots book after anti-Muslim controversy", The Guardian, 24 August 2020.
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