The Supreme Court in 2010 upheld an order of the Bombay High Court to lift a four-year-old ban imposed…
The correct choice is: “Shivaji - The Hindu King in Muslim India” James W. Laine’s book, published by Oxford University Press in 2003 as Shivaji: Hindu King in Islamic…
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The Supreme Court in 2010 upheld an order of the Bombay High Court to lift a four-year-old ban imposed by the Maharashtra government on publication and circulation of a controversial book, authored by American scholar James Laine. Identify the book from the following.
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The correct choice is: “Shivaji - The Hindu King in Muslim India”
James W. Laine’s book, published by Oxford University Press in 2003 as Shivaji: Hindu King in Islamic India, was banned by the Maharashtra government in 2004 after protests over remarks about Shivaji’s parentage (and the attack on the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute in Pune). The Bombay High Court quashed the ban in 2007, and in July 2010 the Supreme Court upheld that decision.
“Shivaji and His Times” is a classic history by Jadunath Sarkar, not by Laine; “Chhatrapati Shivaji” and “Shivaji - The Warrior King” are not the titles of Laine’s book.
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