01-12-2006, 03:57 AM
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January 10, 2006 19:56 IST
http://ia.rediff.com/news/2006/jan/10book.htm
Police have launched a state-wide drive to confiscate and seize
American scholar James Laine's controversial book, "Epic of Shivaji",
after the Maharashtra Government banned the book following some
derogatory remarks in it about the warrior king.
Director General of Police P S Pasricha told PTI orders to seize the
book have been issued all over the state after the ban on
Monday. "The government has imposed the ban on the book since some
portion in it is not written in good taste and casts aspersions on
Chhatrapati Shivaji", he said.
Police said the success of the drive to seize the book will be known
only by Wednesday after all police units in the state send a
feedback.
Apparantly there was no such drive launched in Mumbai. Joint Police
Commissioner (Law and Order) Arup Patnaik told PTI he was yet to go
through the directions of the government and, therefore, would not
comment about the drive.
According to sources, the ban on the book comes in the wake of
representations received by the state Home Ministry from several
quarters, including social groups, about "offensive remarks on
Shivaji".
The reasons cited for banning the book, published by Orient Longman,
include "possible threat to law and order situation and social
stability," official sources said.
Laine's earlier book, 'Shivaji - Hindu King in Islamic India' was
banned in January 2004 after the state government received objections
to the derogatory references in that book about Shivaji Maharaj's
parentage.
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January 10, 2006 19:56 IST
http://ia.rediff.com/news/2006/jan/10book.htm
Police have launched a state-wide drive to confiscate and seize
American scholar James Laine's controversial book, "Epic of Shivaji",
after the Maharashtra Government banned the book following some
derogatory remarks in it about the warrior king.
Director General of Police P S Pasricha told PTI orders to seize the
book have been issued all over the state after the ban on
Monday. "The government has imposed the ban on the book since some
portion in it is not written in good taste and casts aspersions on
Chhatrapati Shivaji", he said.
Police said the success of the drive to seize the book will be known
only by Wednesday after all police units in the state send a
feedback.
Apparantly there was no such drive launched in Mumbai. Joint Police
Commissioner (Law and Order) Arup Patnaik told PTI he was yet to go
through the directions of the government and, therefore, would not
comment about the drive.
According to sources, the ban on the book comes in the wake of
representations received by the state Home Ministry from several
quarters, including social groups, about "offensive remarks on
Shivaji".
The reasons cited for banning the book, published by Orient Longman,
include "possible threat to law and order situation and social
stability," official sources said.
Laine's earlier book, 'Shivaji - Hindu King in Islamic India' was
banned in January 2004 after the state government received objections
to the derogatory references in that book about Shivaji Maharaj's
parentage.
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