[INDOLOGY] Public statement from Wendy Doniger

[Allen Thrasher]

As I recall, the British Indian law on this subject is discussed in the introduction to:


Publications proscribed by the government of India : a catalogue of the collections in the India Office Library and Records and the Department of Oriental Manuscripts and Printed Books, British Library Reference Division / edited by Graham Shaw and Mary Lloyd. London: British Library, 1985.

The British authorities were, I believe, worried primarily about riots.  A number of the books and pamphlets banned were religious polemics rather than attacks on British rule.


Allen            
 



On Wednesday, February 12, 2014 12:05 PM, Dominik Wujastyk <wujastyk at gmail.com> wrote:
  
Wonderful!



On 12 February 2014 17:18, Matthew Kapstein <mkapstei at uchicago.edu> wrote:

Of course, Hitler's Mein Kampf is readily available in almost any Indian bookstall.
>I imagine that the small Bene Israel community never mobilized itself
>to invoke Section 295-A.....
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>Matthew Kapstein
>Directeur d'études, 
>Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes
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>Numata Visiting Professor of Buddhist Studies,
>The University of Chicago
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