A new Gandhi biography has been banned by a state in India, but that’s just the latest in the country’s troubled history of limiting free speech, says Salil Tripathi. Plus, view a gallery of India’s most infamous censored, banned, and attacked books.
The Great Soul by Joseph Lelyveld
Nine Hours to Rama by Stanley Wolpert
The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
The Price of Power by Seymour Hersh
Such a Long Journey by Rohinton Mistry
Riddles of Hinduism by Bhimrao Ambedkar
The Ramayana as told by Aubrey Menen
Shivaji: Hindu King in Islamic India by James Laine
Ganesa: Lord of Obstacles, Lord of Beginnings by Paul Courtright
Jinnah: India Partition Independence by Jaswant Singh
Mother India by Katherine Mayo
Nehru: A Political Biography by Michael Edwardes
The Lotus and the Robot by Arthur Koestler
Rangila Rasool
Polyester Prince by Hamish McDonald
Dwikhondito (Split in Two, Bengali) by Taslima Nasreen