We will celebrate 60th Independence Day this year. The economy is open, Media is free. We have the power to access any information from anywhere in the world.
At the same time, Indian express has published the names of the books, which is banned in India. Books banned by the British times remain on the banned and the list went long. Here is the name of the books and the year of ban.
The largest number of banned books is in the category of critical analysis of India on the whole, Indian foreign policy, or Kashmir, Gandhi assignation and Hindu gods and goddesses
# Hindu Heaven by Max Wylie. Banned: April 28, 1934
# The Face of Mother India by Katherine Mayo. Banned: January 18, 1936
# Old Soldier Sahib by Private Frank Richards Banned: Aug 22, 1936
# The Land of the Lingam by Arthur Miles. Banned: Oct 2, 1937
# Scented Garden (Anthropology of sex life in the Levant) by Bernhard Stern; translated by David Berger. Banned: August 18, 1945
# Behind the Iron Curtain in Kashmir: Neutral Opinion (author not mentioned). Banned: Aug 27, 1949
# American Military Aid to Pakistan (its full implications) by Salahuddin Ahmad. Banned: July 31, 1954
# What Has Religion Done for Mankind, Watch-tower Bible and Tract Society, New York. Banned: Feb 26, 1955
# Dark Urge by Robert W. Taylor. Banned: Dec 29, 1955
# The Ramayana by Aubrey Menen. Banned: Sept 29, 1956
# Captive Kashmir by Aziz Beg. Banned: April 19, 1958
# The Heart of India by Alexander Campbell. Banned: March 11, 1959
# Nine Hours to Rama by Stanley Wolpert. Banned: Sept 1, 1962
# The Jewel in the Lotus (A Historical Survey of the Sexual Culture of the East). Banned: July 20, 1968
# The Evolution of the British Empire and Commonwealth from the American Revolution by Alfred Le Ray Burt. Banned: Aug 9, 1969
# A Struggle between Two Lines over the Question of How to Deal with US Imperialism by Fan Asid-Chu, Foreign Languages Press, Peking, 1965. Banned: Dec 6, 1969
# Nehru, A Political Biography by Michael Edwards. Banned: Dec 13, 1975
# India Independent by Charles Bettelheim. Banned: May 15, 1976
# Who Killed Gandhi by Lourenco De Sadvandor. Banned: Dec 29, 1979
I want you to add more names of the books to the list, which has been banned in India for so many years.
