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@gmail.com> wrote:
Wonderful!

On 12 February 2014 17:18, Matthew Kapstein <mkapstei@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.....

Matthew Kapstein
Directeur d'études,
Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes

Numata Visiting Pro
fessor of Buddhist Studies,
The University of Chicago



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