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దేశవ్యాప్తంగా[మార్చు]

దేశవ్యాప్తంగా బహిష్కృతమయిన పుస్తకాలు (బ్రిటిష్ పాలిత కాలంతో సహా)

తేదీ పుస్తకం పేరు రచయిత వ్యాఖ్య
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
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
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]

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