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Subject:        The Chronicle: Daily News Blog: Oxford U. Press Pulls
Geographical Dictionary After Outcry in India
Date:   Wed, 30 May 2007 11:51:48 -0400
From:   Marcel Fortin <[log in to unmask]>
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I just read about this on the Annoyed Librarian blog...not sure if it's
made the rounds yet:


http://chronicle.com/news/article/2346/oxford-u-press-pulls-geographical-dictionary-after-outcry-in-india



      May 21, 2007


      Oxford U. Press Pulls Geographical Dictionary After Outcry in India

Oxford University Press has suspended sales of a gazetteer published in
2005 after an outcry over errors that was led by historians and
government officials in the southern state of Karnataka, the /Khaleej
Times/
<http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/subcontinent/2007/May/subcontinent_May784.xml&section=subcontinent&col=>
reports. Among other errors, the book, the /Concise Dictionary of World
Place Names,/
<http://www.amazon.com/Concise-Dictionary-Place-Names-Paperback-Reference/dp/0198605374/ref=sr_1_1/103-7209588-5546265?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1179746591&sr=1-1>
says that the local language in Bangalore, Karnataka’s capital, is
Bengali. Actually the language is Kannada. Bengali is spoken in
Bangladesh and neighboring regions of northeastern India.