7 controversial books that got banned in India

Hitesh Rattan

The Satanic Verses

Salman Rushdie's most controversial book, The Satanic Verses got banned in the year it was launched in 1988. The book faced a backlash from Iran as an official fatwa was issued against his book.

The Satanic Verses

The Polyester Prince

The book written by Hamish McDonald was assumed to be a biography of Mukesh Ambani. It was claimed that the book was ill-researched and tried to defame Ambani’s image.

The Polyester Prince

Lajja

The book written by Taslima Nasrin, Lajja got banned due to alleged misleading depiction of religious intolerance in India.

Lajja

An Area of Darkness

The book written by Naipaul, is included in the list of banned books in India.

An Area of Darkness

Who Killed Gandhi

The book written by Lourenco de Salvador, got banned in India claiming that the book was based on ill-research spreading fake information.

Who Killed Gandhi

China’s foreign relation with India since 1949

The book written by, Alan Lawrence, got banned in India and cannot be imported in India.

China’s foreign relation with India

Soft Target: How the Indian intelligence service penetrated Canada

The book written by Zuhair Kashmeri and Brain McAndrew, claims that the Indian intelligence penetrated the Canadian bureaucratic system, to discredit the demand of an independent sikh state in 1980’s.

Soft Target