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Nationwide[edit]

This section lists books that are banned or once faced a nationwide ban in India (including in British India).

DateWorkAuthorNotes
1910Aaril Oru PanguSubramania BharatiIn 1910 this short story was written by Subramania Bharati and published it himself at a price of three ‘anas'. It was the first short story of Tamil Language[1]
1924Rangila RasulAnonymous[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 named Ilm-ud-din, was sentenced to death and the sentenced was carried out on 31 October 1929.[5]
1934Hindu HeavenMax WylieIt 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]
1933AngarayVariousThis collection of stories by Sajjad Zaheer, Ahmed Ali, Rashid Jahan and Mahmud-uz-Zafar was published in 1932. It drew protests from Muslim religious leaders.[11] In 1933, it was banned by the British colonial government.[9]
1936The Face of Mother IndiaKatherine MayoIt cannot be imported into India.[6] This illustrated book was famously called 'the report of a drain inspector' by Mahatma Gandhi.[12]
1936Old Soldier SahibFrank RichardsThe 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]
1937The Land of the LingamArthur MilesIt cannot be imported into India.[6] The book is about Hinduism, caste and phallicism.[13]
1940Mysterious IndiaMoki SinghThe book cannot be imported into India.[6] The book purportedly contained stereotypes.[14]
1945The Scented Garden: Anthropology of the Sex Life in the LevantBernhard SternThis book cannot be imported into India.[15] This is a book about sexual practices and marriage rites of the people of Middle East (Levant).[16] The book was allegedly sexually explicit.[14]
1950 Pakistan-Pasmanzarwa PeshmanzarHameed AnwarThis book, originally in Urdu, cannot be imported into India.[15]
1950Cease-FireAgha BabarThis book, originally in Urdu, cannot be imported into India.[15]
1950Khak Aur KhoonNusseim HajaziThis book, originally in Urdu, cannot be imported into India.[15]
1952 ChadramohiniThis book, originally in Urdu, cannot be imported into India.[15]
1952Marka-e-SomnathMaulana Muhammad Sadiq Hussain Sahab Sadiq Siddiqui SardanviThis book, originally in Urdu, cannot be imported into India.[15]
1954Bhupat SinghKaluwank RavatwankThis book, originally in Gujarati, cannot be imported into India.[15]
1954What has Religion done for MankindThis book cannot be imported into India.[15] This is a book published by the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society.[17] This book tries to refute Eastern religions.[18]
1955Rama RetoldAubrey MenenThis book cannot be imported into India.[15] It was a play[19] which was a spoof of the Ramayana.[20] It was one of the first books to be banned in independent India.[19] The American edition was simply called The Ramayana.[20]
1955Dark UrgeRobert W. TaylorThis book cannot be imported into India.[15]
1958Captive KashmirAziz BegThis book cannot be imported into India.[21]
1959The Heart of IndiaAlexander CampbellThis book cannot be imported into India.[21] Alexander Campbell was Time magazine's New Delhi correspondent. The book is a fictionalized and humorous account of Indian bureaucracy and economic policies.[22]
1960The Lotus and the RobotArthur KoestlerThis book contains the author's experiences in India and Japan. The book was highly critical of the cultures of both nations.[23] The book was banned for its negative portrayal of Gandhi.[24]
1962Nine Hours to RamaStanley WolpertThis book cannot be imported into India.[21] 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.[25] The book also points to the lapse in security.[14][22]
1963NepalToni HagenThis book cannot be imported into India.[21]
1963AyeshaKurt FrischlerThis book cannot be imported into India.[21] The original German title was Aischa: Mohammed's Lieblingfrau (Aischa: Mohammed's Favorite Wife).[26]
1963Unarmed VictoryBertrand RussellThe book dealt with the Sino-Indian War which India lost.[27]
1964An Area of DarknessV. S. NaipaulBanned for its negative portrayal of India and its people.[22]
1968The Jewel in the LotusAllen EdwardesThis book cannot be imported into India.[21]Allen Edwardes was the pen-name of a scholar who wrote on Middle East and Oriental erotica.
1969The Evolution of the British Empire and Commonwealth from the American RevolutionAlfred LeRoy BurtThis book cannot be imported into India.[28]
1969A Struggle between two lines over the question of How to Deal with U.S. ImperialismHsiu-chu FanThis book cannot be imported into India.[28]
1970Man from MoscowGreville WynneThis book cannot be imported into India.[28] Greville Wynne was a courier for the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6). The book is about his involvement with Oleg Penkovsky.[29] The book was banned for purportedly misrepresenting Indian policies.[23]
1975Early IslamDesmond StewartThis book cannot be imported into India.[28] The book purportedly contained grievous factual errors.[23]
1975Nehru: A Political BiographyMichael EdwardsThis book cannot be imported into India.[28] The book purportedly contained grievous factual errors.[23]
1976India IndependentCharles BettelheimThis book cannot be imported into India.[28] It was banned for criticising the policies of the Indian government.[22]
1978China’s Foreign Relations Since 1949Alan LawrenceThis book cannot be imported into India.[28]
1979Who killed GandhiLourenço de SalvadorThis book cannot be imported into India.[28] The book was considered inflammatory and ill-researched.[22][23]
1983The Price of Power: Kissinger and Nixon in the White HouseSeymour HershBriefly banned for alleging Morarji Desai to be a CIA informer.[22] 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.[30]
1984Smash and Grab: Annexation of SikkimSunanda K. Datta-RayThe book dealt with India's annexation of Sikkim. The Delhi High Court had stopped its publication after a political officer station in Gangtok at the time filed a defamation suit. The book was later allowed for release.[31][32]
1988The Satanic VersesSalman RushdieThis book cannot be imported into India.[33] Import ban was imposed after Muslim groups protested that it was blasphemous and hurt their religious sentiments.[22] India was the first country to ban this book.[23]
1989Soft Target: How the Indian Intelligence Service Penetrated CanadaZuhair Kashmeri
and
Brian McAndrew		The book claims that the Indian intelligence agencies penetrated the Canadian Sikh community, Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) in order to discredit the demand for a separate Sikh state.[34]
1991Understanding Islam through HadisRam SwarupThe book, originally published in 1982, was banned for its critique of political Islam.[27]
2005The True FurqanAl Saffee, Al MahdeeBanned for purportedly mocking Islam.[22] The book has been allegedly written by a Christian evangelical group to proselytise Muslims.[23] The import of this book is strictly prohibited.[35]
2014Santsurya Tukaram
and
Loksakha Dnyaneshwar		Anand YadavA Pune court ordered the copies of the books to be destroyed in June 2014. The complaint Jaisingh More had claimed that the book was derogatory to Tukaram and Dnyaneshwar. The publishers defended the book and the author's daughter stated that they will appeal in a higher court.[36]

Statewide[edit]

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.[37]

DateWorkAuthorState(s)Notes
1944Satyarth PrakashDayananda SaraswatiSindhSatyartha Prakash was banned in some princely states and in Sindh in 1944 and is still banned in Sindh.[38] In 2008 two Indian Muslims, Usman Ghani and Mohammad Khalil Khan of Sadar Bazar, Delhi, following the fatwa of Mufti Mukarram Ahmed, the Imam of Fatehpuri Masjid in Delhi, urged the Delhi High Court to ban Satyarth Prakash.[39] However, the court dismissed the petition and commented 'A suit by Hindus against the Quran or by Muslims against Gita or Satyarth Prakash claiming relief... are in fact, meant to play mischief in the society.'[40]
1969Ramayana: A True ReadingPeriyar E. V. RamasamyUttar PradeshThe Hindi version of the book, Sachchi Ramayana, was banned by the state government and all copies were seized in December 1969. The publisher challenged the decision in the Allahabad High Court. The court nullified the ban and asked the government to return all copies to the publisher. The state government challenged the High Court in the Supreme Court. On 16 September 1976, Supreme Court declared the ban to be illegal. However, the government ignored the court decisions and managed to stop sales of the book, until 1995. In 1995, after the political party Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) came to power, the book was widely published for the Periyar mela held in September 1995.[41]
2001Bhavsagar GranthFollowers of Baba BhaniaraPunjabBanned by Parkash Singh Badal-led Punjab government in 2001 for allegedly insulting the Sikh faith. The state arrested the people who were found in possession of the book, and confiscated its copies.[42] In November 2008, the Supreme Court of India overturned the ban, stating that the Punjab government was allowed to issue a fresh ban, if needed.[43] The Punjab Government then banned the book on 15 December 2008.[44]
2003DwikhanditoTaslima NasrinWest BengalThe CPI(M) government banned the book on 28 November 2003 fearing that book could incite communal discord.[45] In November 2003, the Calcutta High Court put out an injunction against publication after a poet, Syed Hasmat Jalal, filed an 11 croreINR defamation suit.[46] On 22 September 2005, the court lifted the ban.[47]
2004Shivaji: Hindu King in Islamic IndiaJames LaineMaharashtraOn 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.[48] On 14 January, the state government run by the Congress Party under Sushil Kumar Shinde banned the book.[49] In 2007, the Bombay High Court revoked the ban.[50] The state government challenged the decision in the Supreme Court. Supreme Court upheld the previous decision and lifted the ban in 2010.[51]
2006The Epic of Shivaji: A Translation and Study of Kavindra Paramananda’s SivabharataJames LaineMaharashtraThe book was banned for allegedly containing derogatory references on grounds that it could cause a law and order problem.[52]
2006The Da Vinci CodeDan BrownNagalandThe book was banned by the government for allegedly containing blasphemous remarks about Jesus.[53]
2007Islam: A Concept of Political World InvasionR. V. BhasinMaharashtraThe 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.[54] In 2010, Bombay High Court upheld the ban.[55] The decision was challenged in the Supreme Court but it rejected the appeal.[54]
2009Jinnah: India, Partition, IndependenceJaswant SinghGujaratBanned in Gujarat but overturned.[22] The book was on banned on 19 August 2009,[56] for containing defamatory references to Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel.[57] Jaswant Singh was also expelled from his political party, BJP, for writing this book.[58] On 4 September, the Gujarat High Court revoked the ban.[56][59]
2011Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle With IndiaJoseph LelyveldGujaratThe biographical book suggested that Gandhi was a bisexual.[60] It is banned in the state of Gujarat (where Gandhi was born) on 31 March 2011.[61] The Union Law Minister Veerappa Moily hinted that the Centre may also ban the book. Gandhi's grandsons, Tushar Gandhi,[62]Rajmohan Gandhi[63] and Gopalkrishna Gandhi,[64] expressed opposition to the ban proposal. On 4 April, Moily ruled out the ban.[65]
2013Meendezhum Pandiyar Varalaru (Resurgence of Pandiyan History)K. Senthil MallarTamil NaduThe 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.[66][67]

Other challenged books[edit]

This section lists books that have been legally challenged to impose a ban or to exclude from a syllabus. Some books listed here are unavailable or were unavailable for some time in India or parts of it, due to pending court decisions or voluntary withdrawal by the publishers.

DateWorkAuthorNotes
1892Risala-i-JihadPandit Lekh RamPandit Lekh Ram's Risala-i-Jihad was challenged and a ban was attempted.[68] Risala-i-Jihad ya'ri Din-i-Muhammad ki Bunyad (A Treatise on waging holy war, or the foundation of the Muhammadan Religion) caused a considerable outcry, when it was published in 1892. Until his murder by a Muslim five years later, Lekh Ram continued to stir up animosity by his vituperative writings.'[69]
1985QuranReligious textOn July 20, 1984, H.K. Chakraborty wrote to the Secretary, Department of Home Government of West Bengal, demanding the ban of the Quran. Chakraborty thereafter with Chandmal Chopra wrote to the Department of Home Government of West Bengal on March 16, 1985.[70] Chopra then filed a writ Petition at the High Court. Chandmal Chopra tried to obtain an order banning the Koran, by filing a Writ Petition at the Calcutta High Court on 29 March 1985. The petition claimed that Sections 153A and 295A of the Indian Penal Code, and Section 95 of the Criminal Procedure Code were often used by Muslims to ban or proscribe publications critical of Islam, and stated that 'so far it had been the privilege of the Peoples of the Book to ban and burn the sacred literature of the Pagans.'[70] Chandmal Chopra thought that the Koran 'on grounds of religion promotes disharmony, feeling of enmity, hatred and ill-will between different religious communities and incite people to commit violence and disturb public tranquility...' The Telegraph of May 9, 1985 reported that the Union Government would make itself a party in the case, and the Union law minister Ashoke Sen and the attorney-general of the Government of India were going to take action against the case.[71] Muslim lawyers after a meeting condemned the case. According to The Telegraph of May 10, the Chief Minister of West Bengal called the petition 'a despicable act'. Other politicians in the Lok Sabha at New Delhi, and the Minister of State for Law condemned the Petition.[72] Pakistan’s minister of state for religious and minority affairs claimed that the petition was the ‘worst example of religious intolerance’, and he urged the Indian government to ‘follow the example of Pakistan’ in ensuring freedom of religion.[73] The petition was however dismissed in May 1985. The Attorney-General of the Government of India and the Advocate-General of West Bengal appeared in the case and argued against Chopra's petition. On June 18, 1985 Chandmal Chopra filed a review petition, which was dismissed on June 21.[70][74][75]
1993Hindu View of Christianity and IslamRam SwarupRam Swarup's Hindu View of Christianity and Islam was challenged by Syed Shahabuddin (who previously successfully managed to get the Satanic Verses banned). Indian authorities were to impose a ban on the book, Syed Shahabuddin asked that the government have the book examined 'from the point of view of banning it under the law of the land.'[76][77][78]
1995The Moor's Last SighSalman RushdieThe book contained a character resembling Balasaheb Thackeray, the leader of the right-wing party Shiv Sena. The book faced protests from the party. The book also contained a dog named, Jawaharlal, named after India's first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru. Prime Minister P. V. Narasimha Raounofficially banned the book. In September 1995, the local publishers Rupa & Co. were asked to stop selling the book while it was being reviewed. Rupa & Co. decided to approach the Supreme Court of India in response.[79] The court the declared the ban unconstitutional in February 1996.[80] However, book sellers were reluctant to stock the book in Maharashtra, the home of Shiv Sena, due to the fear of vandalism.[81]
1997The God of Small ThingsArundhati RoyA lawyer named Sabu Thomas from Kerala filed an obscenity case against the author, claiming that Chapter 21 contains obscene scenes.[82]
1998The Polyester Prince: The Rise of Dhirubhai AmbaniHamish McDonaldThis unofficial biography of Dhirubhai Ambani never went to print because Harper Collins anticipated legal action from the Ambani family.[22][83]
2000Towards FreedomSumit Sarkar
and
K. N. Panikkar		The 10-volume history book project was halted by the Indian Council of Historical Research in early 2000, allegedly because it showed Hindu Mahasabha in a badlight. The project was revived in 2004.[84]
2001Holy Cow: Beef in Indian Dietary TraditionsDwijendra Narayan JhaA preview of the book was posted on a website initially which triggered the controversy.[85][86] A spokesperson for the Vishwa Hindu Parishad[85] 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.[86][87] A civil court in Andhra Pradesh put a temporary stay order on the book until verdict.[87]Pushpesh Pant[85] 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.[86]
2002Five Past Midnight in BhopalDominique Lapierre
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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.[88][89] In 2009, the court put an order to halt publication of the book.[88][89] But, the Madhya Pradesh High Court revoked the order later.[90]
2008The Lives of Sri AurobindoPeter HeehsOn 5 November 2004, the Odisha High Court put a stay order on the release of the book, after a petition was filed.[91] The petitioner alleged that the book is blasphemous in nature and defamatory regarding Sri Aurobindo's character.[91][92]
2010The Red Sari (El Sari Rojo)Javier MoroThe book was originally published in October 2010[93] in Spanish. The book is a fictional[93] 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.[93][94] Abhishek Singhvi claimed that the book violated a person's privacy for monetary gain.[95] The book was finally released in India in January 2015.[96]
2010Such A Long JourneyRohinton MistryOn 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.[97][98] The protests were led by Aditya Thackeray.[97] Mistry later expressed his dismay in an open letter to the university.[97]
2013DhundiYogesh MasterThe 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.[99] The complaint was filed by Sri Ram Sene leader Pramod Muthalik, and others.[100]
2014Sahara: The Untold StoryTamal BandyopadhyaySahara India Pariwar moved Calcutta High Court in December 2013 seeking a stay and filed a Rs. 200 crore defamation suit against the author. In January 2014, a stay order was issued by the court. In April, both the parties reached an out of court settlement following which the book was published with a disclaimer given by Sahara.[101][102]
2014The Descent of Air IndiaJitendra BhargavaThe publisher, Bloomsbury India, agreed to withdraw all copies of the book, after former Aviation MinisterPraful Patel filed a defamation suit in a Mumbai court. The publisher also issued a public apology.[103][104]
2015Madhorubhagan
(One Part Woman)		Perumal MuruganThe writer asked publishers to withdraw all his books from the market and announced that he was giving up writing on 13 January 2015.[105] The BJP, RSS and other Hindu groups had protested his book, and demanded its ban and his arrest. They had alleged that he had portrayed the Kailasanathar temple in Tiruchengode and its women devotees in bad light. The English translation of the book is known as One Part Woman.[106]
2015KorkaiJoe D'CruzA complaint was filed against the author in June 2015 in a Thoothukudi, Tamil Nadu court alleging the novel had portrayed fishermen, Christianity, priests and nuns in bad light.[107]

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