A list of books banned in India.
Hindu Heaven, Max Wylie (1934);
The Face of Mother India, Katherine Mayo (1936);
Old Soldier Sahib, Frank Richards (1936);
The Land of the Lingam, Arthur Miles, (1937);
Mysterious India, Moki Singh (1940);
The Scented Garden (Anthropology of the Sex Life in the Levant), Bernhard Stern, translated by David Berger (1945)
What has Religion done for Mankind, Watchtower Bible and Tract Society (1955);
Rama Retold, Aubrey Menen (1955);
Dark Urge, Robert W. Taylor (1955);
The Ramayana, Aubrey Menen (1956);
Captive Kashmir, Aziz Beg (1958);
The Heart of India, Alexander Campbell (1959);
The Lotus and the Robot, Arthur Koestler (1960);
Nine Hours to Rama, Stanley Wolpert (1962);
Unarmed Victory, Bertrand Russell (1963);
Nepal, Toni Hagen (1963);
Ayesha, Kurt Frishchler, translated by Norman Denny (1963);
Lady Chatterley’s Lover, D.H. Lawrence (1964);
The Jewel in the Lotus (A Historical Survey of the Sexual Culture of the East), Allen Edwards (1968);
The Evolution of the British Empire and Commonwealth from the American Revolution, Alfred Le Ray Burt (1969);
A Struggle between Two Lines over the Question of How to Deal with U.S. Imperialism, Fan Asid-Chu (1969);
Man from Moscow, Greville Wynne (1970);
Early Islam, Desmond Steward (1975);
Nehru: A Political Biography, Michael Edwards (1975);
India Independent, Charles Bettelheim (1976);
China’s Foreign Relations Since 1949, Alan Lawrence (1978);
Who killed Gandhi, Lourenco De Sadvandor (1979);
Understanding Islam through Hadis, Ram Swarup (1982);
Smash and Grab: Annexation of Sikkim, Sunanda Datta-Ray (1984);
The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie (1988);
Soft Target: How the Indian Intelligence Service Penetrated Canada, Zuhair Kashmeri and Brian McAndrew (1989);
The Polyester Prince, Hamish McDonald (1998);
The True Furqan, “Al Saffee” and “Al Mahdee” (1999);
Islam: A Concept of Political World Invasion, R.V. Bhasin (2007 – Maharashtra);
Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle With India, Joseph Lelyveld (2011 – Gujarat).
List courtesy of The Hindu.
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