Ep. 139: The Gita Press and Hindu Nationalism
The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma
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The History of the Gita Press
As of February 2014, 71.9 million copies of the Gita have been sold. For the Ram Chirith Manas and other works by Goswami Tulkita's, the figure is 70 million copies. Of which 94.8 million copies have been sold so far. While more than 65 million copies of stories from India's mythic pastBiographies of saints and devotional songs have been bought. The very first print run was of 40,600 copies. By late 1983, a total of 5.69 million copies had been printed.
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