భారతదేశంలో బహిష్కరించబడిన పుస్తకాల జాబితా
స్వరూపం
ఈ వ్యాసాన్ని పూర్తిగా అనువదించి, తరువాత ఈ మూసను తీసివేయండి. అనువాదం చేయాల్సిన వ్యాస భాగం ఒకవేళ ప్రధాన పేరుబరిలో వున్నట్లయితే పాఠ్యం సవరించు నొక్కినప్పుడు కనబడవచ్చు. అనువాదం పూర్తయినంతవరకు ఎర్రలింకులు లేకుండా చూడాలంటే ప్రస్తుత ఆంగ్ల కూర్పుని, భాషల లింకుల ద్వారా చూడండి(అనువాదకులకు వనరులు) |
భారతదేశంలో పూర్తిగా లేక పాక్షికంగా బహిష్కృతమయిన పుస్తకాల వివరాలు ఇక్కడ చూడవచ్చు.
దేశవ్యాప్తంగా
[మార్చు]దేశవ్యాప్తంగా బహిష్కృతమయిన పుస్తకాలు (బ్రిటిష్ పాలిత కాలంతో సహా)
తేదీ | పుస్తకం పేరు | రచయిత | వ్యాఖ్య |
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1924 | రంగీలా రసూల్ | అనామకుడు[1] | In May 1924, this Urdu booklet was published in Lahore. The booklet purportedly described Prophet Muhammad's relationship with women. The publisher, Raj Pal,[2] was charged under 153A of the Indian Penal Code for hate speech by the Punjab government. The final disposition came in May 1927.[2] The court declared that law does not prohibit satirical writings about the deceased and the publisher was acquitted with a warning.[1][3] On 6 April 1929, the publisher was murdered.[3][4] The murderer, a Muslim youth, was sentenced to death and the sentenced was carried out on 31 October 1929.[5] |
1934 | హిందూ హెవెన్ | మ్యాక్స్ వైలీ | It cannot be brought into India.[6] Max Wylie, the creator The Flying Nun TV show, researched this book while teaching in Lahore.[7] The novel questioned the work of American missionaries in India.[8][9] It also dealt with the harsh effects of the climate on the missionaries.[10] |
1936 | ది ఫేస్ ఆఫ్ మదర్ ఇండియా | కేథరిన్ మెయొ | It cannot be imported into India.[6] This illustrated book was banned for its pro-Muslim and anti-Hindu bias.[11] |
1936 | ఓల్డ్ సోల్జర్ సాహిబ్ | ఫ్రాంక్ రిచర్డ్స్ | The book cannot be imported into India.[6] The book is a memoir of the author's time in British India as a veteran soldier.[9] |
1937 | ది లాండ్ ఆఫ్ ది లింగమ్ | ఆర్థుర్ మైల్స్ | It cannot be imported into India.[6] The book is about Hinduism, caste and phallicism.[12] |
1940 | మిస్టీరియస్ ఇండియా | మోకీ సింగ్ | The book cannot be imported into India.[6] The book purportedly contained stereotypes.[13] |
1945 | ది సెంటెడ్ గార్డెన్ : ఆంత్రొపాలజీ ఆఫ్ ది సెక్స్ లైఫ్ ఇన్ ది లెవెంట్ | బెర్న్ హార్డ్ స్టెం | This book cannot be imported into India.[14] This is a book about sexual practices and marriage rites of the people of Middle East (Levant).[15] The book was allegedly sexually explicit.[13] |
1950 | పాకిస్తాన్-పస్మాన్జర్వా పెష్మన్జర్ | హమీద్ అన్వర్ | This book, originally in Urdu, cannot be imported into India.[14] |
1950 | సీజ్-ఫైర్ | ఆఘా బాబర్ | This book, originally in Urdu, cannot be imported into India.[14] |
1950 | ఖాక్ ఔర్ ఖూన్ | నజీం హజాజీ | This book, originally in Urdu, cannot be imported into India.[14] |
1952 | చంద్రమోహిని | This book, originally in Urdu, cannot be imported into India.[14] | |
1952 | మర్కా-ఎ-సోంనాథ్ | మౌలానా ముహమ్మద్ సాదిఖ్ హుసెయిన్ సాహబ్ సాదిఖ్ సిద్దికీ సర్దన్వీ | This book, originally in Urdu, cannot be imported into India.[14] |
1954 | భూపత్ సింగ్ | కలువాంక్ రావత్వాంక్ | This book, originally in Gujarati, cannot be imported into India.[14] |
1954 | వాట్ హ్యాజ్ రిలీజియన్ డన్ ఫర్ మ్యాన్ కైండ్ | This book cannot be imported into India.[14] This is a book published by the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society.[16] This book tries to refute Eastern religions.[17] | |
1955 | రామా రీటోల్డ్ | ఆబ్రె మెనన్ | This book cannot be imported into India.[14] It was a play[18] which was a spoof of the Ramayana.[19] It was one of the first books to be banned in independent India.[18] The American edition was simply called The Ramayana.[19] |
1955 | డార్క్ అర్జ్ | రోబర్ట్ డబ్ల్యూ టేలర్ | This book cannot be imported into India.[14] |
1958 | క్యాప్టివ్ కాష్మీర్ | అజీజ్ బేగ్ | This book cannot be imported into India.[20] |
1959 | ది హార్ట్ ఆఫ్ ఇండియా | అలెగ్జాండర్ క్యాంప్బెల్ | This book cannot be imported into India.[20] Alexander Campbell was Time magazine's New Delhi correspondent. The book is a fictionalized and humorous account of Indian bureaucracy and economic policies.[21] |
1960 | ది లోటస్ అండ్ ది రోబోట్ | ఆర్థర్ కోజ్లర్ | This book contains the author's experiences in India and Japan. The book was highly critical of the cultures of both nations.[22] The book was banned for its negative portrayal of Gandhi.[23] |
1962 | నైన్ అవర్స్ టు రామా | స్టాన్లీ వోల్పర్ట్ | This book cannot be imported into India.[20] The book and the movie based on it, both were banned in India. The book was thought to be justifying the actions of Nathuram Godse who murdered Gandhi.[24] The book also points to the lapse in security.[13][21] |
1963 | నేపాల్ | టోనీ హ్యాగన్ | This book cannot be imported into India.[20] |
1963 | ఆయేషా | కర్ట్ ఫ్రిష్లర్ | This book cannot be imported into India.[20] The original German title was Aischa: Mohammed's Lieblingfrau (Aischa: Mohammed's Favorite Wife).[25] |
1964 | ఎన్ ఏరియా ఆఫ్ డార్క్నెస్ | వీ.ఎస్.నాయ్పుల్ | Banned for its negative portrayal of India and its people.[21] |
1968 | ది జెవెల్ ఇన్ ది లోటస్ | ఆలెన్ ఎడ్వార్డెస్ | This book cannot be imported into India.[20] Allen Edwardes was the pen-name of a scholar who wrote on Middle East and Oriental erotica. |
1969 | ది ఇవల్యూషన్ ఆఫ్ ది బ్రిటిష్ ఎంపైర్ అండ్ కామన్ వెల్త్ ఫ్రొం ది అమెరికన్ రివల్యూషన్ | అల్ఫ్రెడ్ లెరోయ్ | This book cannot be imported into India.[26] |
1969 | ఎ స్ట్రగుల్ బిట్వీన్ టూ లైన్స్ ఓవర్ ది క్వెషన్ ఆఫ్ హవ్ టూ డీల్ విత్ యూఎస్ ఇంపీరియలిజం | Hsiu-chu Fan | This book cannot be imported into India.[26] |
1970 | మ్యాన్ ఫ్రొం మాస్కో | గ్రెవిల్ విన్నే | This book cannot be imported into India.[26] Greville Wynne was a courier for the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6). The book is about his involvement with Oleg Penkovsky.[27] The book was banned for purportedly misrepresenting Indian policies.[22] |
1975 | అర్లీ ఇస్లాం | డెస్మండ్ స్టువార్ట్ | This book cannot be imported into India.[26] The book purportedly contained grievous factual errors.[22] |
1975 | నెహ్రూ: ఎ పొలిటికల్ బయోగ్రఫీ | మైకేల్ ఎడ్వర్డ్స్ | This book cannot be imported into India.[26] The book purportedly contained grievous factual errors.[22] |
1976 | ఇండియా ఇండిపెండెంట్ | చార్లెస్ బెట్టెల్హెయిమ్ | This book cannot be imported into India.[26] It was banned for criticising the policies of the Indian government.[21] |
1978 | చైనాస్ ఫోరెన్ రిలేషన్స్ సిన్స్ 1949 | ఆలన్ లారెన్స్ | This book cannot be imported into India.[26] |
1979 | హూ కిల్డ్ గాంధీ | లౌరెన్కో డి సాల్వేడర్ | This book cannot be imported into India.[26] The book was considered inflammatory and ill-researched.[21][22] |
1983 | ది ప్రైస్ ఆఫ్ పవర్ : కిస్సింగర్ అండ్ నిక్సాన్ ఇన్ ది వైట్ హౌస్ | సెయ్మోర్ హర్ష్ | Briefly banned for alleging Morarji Desai to be a CIA informer.[21] The book claimed that Morarji Desai was paid 20,000 USD per year, starting from the time of Lyndon B. Johnson. Desai obtained an injunction from the Bombay High Court for a temporary ban and sued for damages worth 5 million USD in US.[28] |
1988 | ది సాతానిక్ వెర్సెస్ | సల్మాన్ రష్దీ | The book was banned after Muslim groups protested that it was blasphemous and hurt their religious sentiments.[21] India was the first country to ban this book.[22] |
1995 | ది మూర్'స్ లాస్ట్ సైఁ | సల్మాన్ రష్దీ | The book had a character that resembled the composite of several Indian politicians. One of the politicians was Shiv Sena's Bal Thackeray. Despite being provoked by the media and publishers, he refused to give his opinion on the book and claimed that he had not read it. The publishers then took the step of banning the book and blaming Thackeray. As this controversy was playing out, the P.V. Narasimha Rao government banned the book when it found that a dog in the book was named Jawaharlal after India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. Later, the Supreme Court declared the ban unconstitutional. |
2005 | ది ట్రూ ఫుర్కాన్ | అల్ సఫ్ఫీ, అల్ మహ్దీ | Banned for purportedly mocking Islam.[21] The book has been allegedly written by a Christian evangelical group to proselytise Muslims.[22] The import of this book is strictly prohibited.[29] |
ప్రాంతీయ బహిష్కరణలు
[మార్చు]This section lists books that were banned by a state government. The Section 95 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 allows the state governments to declare any publication as forfeit.[30]
Date | Work | Author | Region(s) | Notes |
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2003 | Dwikhandito | Taslima Nasrin | West Bengal | The CPI(M) government banned the book on 28 November 2003 fearing that book could incite communal discord.[31] In November 2003, the Calcutta High Court put out an injunction against publication after a poet, Syed Hasmat Jalal, filed an 11 crore INR defamation suit.[32] On 22 September 2005, the court lifted the ban.[33] |
2004 | Shivaji: Hindu King in Islamic India | James Laine | Maharastra | On January 2004, a mob alleging disparaging remarks made about Shivaji attacked Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute where Laine had researched the book. Several rare manuscripts were destroyed in the process.[34] On 14 January, the state government run by the Congress Party under Sushil Kumar Shinde banned the book.[35] In 2007, the Bombay High Court revoked the ban.[36] The state government challenged the decision in the Supreme Court. Supreme Court upheld the previous decision and lifted the ban in 2010.[37] |
2006 | The Epic of Shivaji: A Translation and Study of Kavindra Paramananda’s Sivabharata | James Laine | Maharastra | The book was banned for allegedly containing derogatory references on grounds that it could cause a law and order problem.[38] |
2006 | Da Vinci Code | Dan Brown | Nagaland | The book was banned by the Congress government for allegedly containing blasphemous remarks about Jesus.[39] |
2007 | Islam: A Concept of Political World Invasion | R. V. Bhasin | Maharashtra | The book was released in 2003. It was banned by the Congress government in 2007 ground that it contained derogatory remarks about Islam and Prophet Mohammad.[40] In 2010, Bombay High Court upheld the ban.[41] The decision was challenged in the Supreme Court but it rejected the appeal.[40] |
2009 | Jinnah: India, Partition, Independence | Jaswant Singh | Gujarat | Banned in Gujarat but overturned.[21] The book was on banned on 19 August 2009,[42] for containing defamatory references to Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel.[43] Jaswant Singh was also expelled from his political party, BJP, for writing this book.[44] On 4 September, the Gujarat High Court revoked the ban.[42] |
2011 | Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle With India | Joseph Lelyveld | Gujarat | The biographical book suggested that Gandhi was a bisexual.[45] It is banned in the state of Gujarat (where Gandhi was born) on 31 March 2011.[46] The Union Law Minister Veerappa Moily hinted that the Centre may also ban the book. Gandhi's grandsons, Tushar Gandhi,[47] Rajmohan Gandhi[48] and Gopalkrishna Gandhi,[49] expressed opposition to the ban proposal. On 4 April, Moily ruled out the ban.[50] |
2013 | Meendezhum Pandiyar Varalaru (Resurgence of Pandiyan History) | K. Senthil Mallar | తమిళనాడు | The Tamil Nadu government banned this Tamil book on 30 May 2013 on grounds that it may cause violence and promote discord among communities. The book allegedly claims the Dalit community called Pallar, were among the rulers of the Pandya kingdom. The author has appealed in the Madras High Court against the ban.[51][52] |
బహిష్కారం కాని వివాదాస్పద పుస్తకాలు
[మార్చు]This section lists books that have been legally challenged to impose a ban or to exclude from a syllabus but have not been banned.
Date | Work | Author | Notes |
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1998 | The Polyester Prince: The Rise of Dhirubhai Ambani | Hamish McDonald | This unofficial biography of Dhirubhai Ambani never went to print because Harper Collins anticipated legal action from the Ambani family.[21][53] |
2001 | Holy Cow: Beef in Indian Dietary Traditions | Dwijendra Narayan Jha | A preview of the book was posted on a website initially which triggered the controversy.[54][55] A spokesperson for the Vishwa Hindu Parishad[54] stated that the book was an attempt to insult Hindus. The book allegedly said that beef was eaten by ancient Indians. The author received anonymous threat calls and had to be provided a police escort.[55][56] A civil court in Andhra Pradesh put a temporary stay order on the book until verdict.[56] Pushpesh Pant[54] supported the book by stating that the evidence exists in historical and mythological texts. The book is also known as The Myth of the Holy Cow.[55] |
2002 | Five Past Midnight in Bhopal | Dominique Lapierre and Javier Moro | The book is a dramatized account of the Bhopal disaster. In 2002, Swaraj Puri filed a defamation suit against the authors worth 10 million USD. Puri, who was the police commissioner of Bhopal during the disaster is mentioned in the book.[57][58] In 2009, the court put an order to halt publication of the book.[57][58] But, the Madhya Pradesh High Court revoked the order later.[59] |
2008 | The Collected Essays of A. K. Ramanujan | A. K. Ramanujan | The books contains an essay called Three Hundred Ramayanas: Five Examples and Three Thoughts on Translation, which allegedly described a version of the Ramayana in which Rama and Sita were siblings.[60] The essay was a part of the syllabus of Bachelor of Arts (History) in Delhi University. In 2008, Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad protested against it claiming it to be offensive. Reportedly there were incidents of vandalism and at least one professor was manhandled.[61] In 2010, the Supreme Court directed that an expert panel be formed to look into the matter. The expert panel voted 3:1 for retention of the essay. But the university dropped it from the course in 2011.[62] |
2008 | The Lives of Sri Aurobindo | Peter Heehs | On 5 November 2004, the Odisha High Court put a stay order on the release of the book, after a petition was filed.[63] The petitioner alleged that the book is blasphemous in nature and defamatory regarding Sri Aurobindo's character.[63][64] |
2010 | The Red Sari (El Sari Rojo) | Javier Moro | The book was originally published in October 2010[65] in Spanish. The book is a fictional[65] novel allegedly based on Sonia Gandhi. Moro claimed that Congress lawyers and spokesperson Abhishek Singhvi had written to his publishers demanding them to withdraw the book from shops.[65][66] Abhishek Singhvi claimed that the book violated a person's privacy for monetary gain.[67] |
2010 | Such A Long Journey | Rohinton Mistry | On 4 October 2010, this 1990 Booker nominated book was removed from the Bachelor of Arts (English) syllabus of the Mumbai University, after Bharatiya Vidyarthi Sena, the student-wing of the Shiv Sena protested. The book allegedly contained anti-Shiv Sena passages and remarks derogatory to Maharastrians.[68][69] The protests were led by Aditya Thackeray.[68] Mistry later expressed his dismay in an open letter to the university.[68] |
2013 | Dhundi | Yogesh Master | The author of the Kannada novel was arrested on 29 August 2013, after several Hindu organisations accused the book of containing objectionable material against the god Ganesha. The author was charged under Section 295 A and 298 of the Indian Penal Code.[70] The complaint was filed by Sri Ram Sene leader Pramod Muthalik, and others.[71] |
2013 | Sahara: The Untold Story | Tamal Bandyopadhyay | On 10 December 2013, Sahara India Pariwar acquired a stay order on the release of the book from the Calcutta High Court. Later on 13 January 2014, it filed a ₹200 crore defamation suit against the author and the publisher, Jaico Publishing House.[72] |
2014 | The Descent of Air India | Jitendra Bhargava | The publisher, Bloomsbury India, agreed to withdraw all copies of the book, after former Aviation Minister Praful Patel filed a defamation suit in a Mumbai court. The publisher also issued a public apology.[73][74] |
2014 | The Hindus: An Alternative History | Wendy Doniger | An organization called Shiksha Bachao Andolan had brought a civil suit against the publisher, Penguin India, in 2011 for alleged inaccuracies, libel and alleged plagiarism. In early 2014, the publisher agreed to recall and destroy all copies of the book.[75] |
ఇవి కూడా చూడండి
[మార్చు]మూలములు
[మార్చు]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 జాన్. డబ్లూ. సెల్; జాన్ విట్సన్ సెల్ (22 ఆగస్టు 2002). హెయిలీ : ఎ స్టడీ ఇన్ బ్రిటిష్ ఇంపీరియలిజం, 1872-1969. కేంబ్రిడ్జ్ యూనివర్సిటీ ప్రెస్. p. 145. ISBN 978-0-521-52117-8. Retrieved 11 ఆగస్టు 2013.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Gene R. Thursby (1975). Hindu-Muslim Relations in British India: A Study of Controversy, Conflict, and Communal Movements in Northern India 1923-1928. BRILL. p. 42. ISBN 978-90-04-04380-0. Retrieved 11 August 2013.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Girja Kumar (1 January 1997). The Book on Trial: Fundamentalism and Censorship in India. Har-Anand Publications. pp. 55, 58. ISBN 978-81-241-0525-2. Retrieved 11 August 2013.
- ↑ Ayesha Jalal (4 January 2002). Self and Sovereignty: Individual and Community in South Asian Islam Since 1850. Taylor & Francis. p. 295. ISBN 978-0-203-18624-4. Retrieved 11 August 2013.
- ↑ The Punjab Bloodied, Partitioned and Cleansed. Rupa Publications. ISBN 978-81-291-2125-7. Retrieved 11 August 2013.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 "Prohibition on Importations into India (Part 1)". Chennai Customs (Government of India). Archived from the original on 13 ఏప్రిల్ 2013. Retrieved 7 August 2013.
- ↑ "Class of 1927 Letter". Half-Century Annalist Letters. Hamilton College. Archived from the original on 9 జనవరి 2014. Retrieved 7 August 2013.
- ↑ Sujit Mukherjee (1 January 1993). Forster and Further: The Tradition of Anglo-Indian Fiction. Orient Blackswan. p. 256. ISBN 978-0-86311-289-8. Retrieved 7 August 2013.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction. John Wiley & Sons. 8 December 2010. p. 1003. ISBN 978-1-4051-9244-6. Retrieved 7 August 2013.
- ↑ Raj Kumar Gupta (1 January 1986). The Great Encounter: A Study of Indo-American Literature and Cultural Relations. Abhinav Publications. p. 179. ISBN 978-81-7017-211-6. Retrieved 7 August 2013.
- ↑ Sinha, Mrinalini. "Mayo, Katherine". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 7 August 2013.
- ↑ "The land of the lingam". Library Catalog. Yale University. Archived from the original on 11 ఆగస్టు 2013. Retrieved 7 August 2013.
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 Nilanjana S. Roy (23 May 2006). "Banned in India: The 1930s-1960s". Business Standard. Retrieved 11 August 2013.
- ↑ 14.00 14.01 14.02 14.03 14.04 14.05 14.06 14.07 14.08 14.09 "Prohibition on Importations into India (Part 2)". Chennai Customs (Government of India). Archived from the original on 16 ఏప్రిల్ 2013. Retrieved 7 August 2013.
- ↑ "The scented garden; anthropology of the sex life in the Levant". Library Catalog. Stony Brook University. Archived from the original on 11 ఆగస్టు 2013. Retrieved 7 August 2013.
- ↑ "What has religion done for mankind". Library Catalog. University of Wisconsin-Madison. Retrieved 10 August 2013.
- ↑ Tony Wills (1 February 2007). A People for His Name: A History of Jehovah's Witnesses and an Evaluation. Lulu.com. p. 235. ISBN 978-1-4303-0100-4. Retrieved 10 August 2013.
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 Arvind Krishna Mehrotra (January 2003). A History of Indian Literature in English. C. Hurst & Co. Publishers. p. 192. ISBN 978-1-85065-681-4. Retrieved 10 August 2013.
- ↑ 19.0 19.1 P. Lal (1964). Great Sanskrit Plays. New Directions Publishing. p. 291. ISBN 978-0-8112-0079-0. Retrieved 10 August 2013.
- ↑ 20.0 20.1 20.2 20.3 20.4 20.5 Prohibition on Importations into India (Part 3), Chennai Customs (Government of India), archived from the original on 21 సెప్టెంబరు 2012, retrieved 7 August 2013
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