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May 31, 2006
Banned books in India
What does V.S. Naipaul’s An Area of Darkness have in common with Salman Rushdie’s Satanic Verses, Seymour Hersh’s The Price of Power: Kissinger and Nixon in the White House, and former MI5 operative Greville Wynne’s memoirs, The Man From Moscow? These books were banned in India at one time. Other proscribed books include James Laine’s Life of Shivaji; Desmond Steward’s Early Islam; Michael Edwards’ Nehru: A Political Biography; Charles Bettelheim’s India Independent; Lourenco de Sadvandor’s Who Killed Gandhi; and Arthur Koestler’s The Lotus and the Robot. Bal Thackeray had objected to a character in Rushdie’s The Moor’s Last Sigh who bore a striking resemblance to the Hindutva leader but the ban was overturned.
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