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...Instead, in March 2009, India's Central Bureau of Investigation filed its final report on the riots, clearing Jagdish Tytler, one of the accused who had major political ambitions and was announced as a candidate for Indian parliament elections in 2009. Tytler had been accused of leading mobs of thousands during the riots, and though he was named by several eyewitnesses, he was ultimately exonerated because of lack of concrete evidence. Hundreds of Sikh protesters gathered outside the courts afterward, and Sikh journalist Jarnail Singh threw a shoe at Home Minister P. Chidambaram during a press conference in April, following...
...biggest patron, the Duke of Buccleuch. This is contrary to the whole tradition of encyclopedias of the "arts and sciences." Smellie refused to do it, perhaps partly because he felt the duke was anxious to get his own name into print. The proprietors' choice then fell upon one James Tytler, 29, whom a local poet has described as "an obscure, tippling, but extraordinary body" who "drudges about Edinburgh as a common printer with leaky shoes and a skylighted...
...choice is not so odd as it seems. The son of a minister, Tytler worked his way through medical school. He has tried out as both surgeon and apothecary, and failed in several tries and in several places. When the Britannica proprietors found him, he was in Holyrood House, that sanctuary for debtors, working at a press of his own design and printing his essays on religion and politics. As a man who may not bestride but at least straddles the worlds of both scientific and religious thought?though admittedly master of neither?he may be ideally suited...
...devaluation of the British pound in your November 24th issue, but I never expected the more than three-page cover article, so thoughtfully and clearly put. May I be allowed to congratulate you and your staff on a first-class piece of really rapid work. J. D. TYTLER New Delhi...
...Britannica sold more than 3,000 sets at ?12 apiece, enough for Bell and Macfarquhar to plan a second edition. By 1777, when work started, Smellie had gone off (later to become a boozing buddy of Robert Burns), and the publishers replaced him with James Tytler, a scholar just as whiskyfied and twice as eccentric, being given to balloon ascensions. Editor Tytler stayed on the ground long enough to get out a ten-volume, 8,595-page encyclopedia...