List of Banned books by Government of India

This section lists books that are banned or once faced a nationwide ban in India (including in British India).

Date	Work	Author	Notes
1910	Aaril Oru Pangu	Subramania Bharati	In 1910 this short story was written by Subramania Bharati and published it himself at a price of three ‘anas'. It was the first short story of Tamil Language
1924	Rangila Rasul	Anonymous[1]	In May 1924, this Urdu booklet was published in Lahore. The booklet purportedly described Prophet Muhammad's relationship with women. The publisher, Raj Pal, was charged under 153A of the Indian Penal Code for hate speech by the Punjab government. The final disposition came in May 1927. The court declared that law does not prohibit satirical writings about the deceased and the publisher was acquitted with a warning. On 6 April 1929, the publisher was murdered. The murderer, a Muslim youth named Ilm-ud-din, was sentenced to death and the sentenced was carried out on 31 October 1929.
1934	Hindu Heaven	Max Wylie	It cannot be brought into India. Max Wylie, the creator The Flying Nun TV show, researched this book while teaching in Lahore.The novel questioned the work of American missionaries in India. It also dealt with the harsh effects of the climate on the missionaries.
1933	Angaray	Various	This collection of stories by Sajjad Zaheer, Ahmed Ali, Rashid Jahan and Mahmud-uz-Zafar was published in 1932. It drew protests from Muslim religious leaders. In 1933, it was banned by the British colonial government.
1936	The Face of Mother India	Katherine Mayo	It cannot be imported into India. This illustrated book was famously called "the report of a drain inspector" by Mahatma Gandhi.
1936	Old Soldier Sahib	Frank Richards	The book cannot be imported into India. The book is a memoir of the author's time in British India as a veteran soldier.
1937	The Land of the Lingam	Arthur Miles	It cannot be imported into India. The book is about Hinduism, caste and phallicism.
1940	Mysterious India	Moki Singh	The book cannot be imported into India. The book purportedly contained stereotypes.
1945	The Scented Garden: Anthropology of the Sex Life in the Levant	Bernhard Stern	This book cannot be imported into India. This is a book about sexual practices and marriage rites of the people of Middle East (Levant). The book was allegedly sexually explicit.
1950	Pakistan-Pasmanzarwa Peshmanzar	Hameed Anwar	This book, originally in Urdu, cannot be imported into India.
1950	Cease-Fire	Agha Babar	This book, originally in Urdu, cannot be imported into India.
1950	Khak Aur Khoon	Nusseim Hajazi	This book, originally in Urdu, cannot be imported into India.
1952	Chadramohini		This book, originally in Urdu, cannot be imported into India.
1952	Marka-e-Somnath	Maulana Muhammad Sadiq Hussain Sahab Sadiq Siddiqui Sardanvi	This book, originally in Urdu, cannot be imported into India.
1954	Bhupat Singh	Kaluwank Ravatwank	This book, originally in Gujarati, cannot be imported into India.
1954	What has Religion done for Mankind		This book cannot be imported into India. This is a book published by the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society. This book tries to refute Eastern religions.
1955	Rama Retold	Aubrey Menen	This book cannot be imported into India. It was a play which was a spoof of the Ramayana. It was one of the first books to be banned in independent India. The American edition was simply called The Ramayana.
1955	Dark Urge	Robert W. Taylor	This book cannot be imported into India.
1958	Captive Kashmir	Aziz Beg	This book cannot be imported into India.
1959	The Heart of India	Alexander Campbell	This book cannot be imported into India.[Alexander Campbell was Time magazine's New Delhi correspondent. The book is a fictionalized and humorous account of Indian bureaucracy and economic policies.
1960	The Lotus and the Robot	Arthur Koestler	This book contains the author's experiences in India and Japan. The book was highly critical of the cultures of both nations. The book was banned for its negative portrayal of Gandhi.
1962	Nine Hours to Rama	Stanley Wolpert	This book cannot be imported into India.The book and the movie based on it, both were banned in India. The book was thought to be justifying the actions of Nathuram Godse who murdered Gandhi.[]The book also points to the lapse in security.[
1963	Nepal	Toni Hagen	This book cannot be imported into India.
1963	Ayesha	Kurt Frischler	This book cannot be imported into India. The original German title was Aischa: Mohammed's Lieblingfrau(Aischa: Mohammed's Favorite Wife).
1963	Unarmed Victory	Bertrand Russell	The book dealt with the Sino-Indian War which India lost.
1964	An Area of Darkness	V. S. Naipaul	Banned for its negative portrayal of India and its people.
1968	The Jewel in the Lotus	Allen Edwardes	This book cannot be imported into India. Allen Edwardes was the pen-name of a scholar who wrote on Middle East and Oriental erotica.
1969	The Evolution of the British Empire and Commonwealth from the American Revolution	Alfred LeRoy Burt	This book cannot be imported into India.
1969	A Struggle between two lines over the question of How to Deal with U.S. Imperialism	Hsiu-chu Fan	This book cannot be imported into India.
1970	Man from Moscow	Greville Wynne	This book cannot be imported into India. Greville Wynne was a courier for the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6). The book is about his involvement with Oleg Penkovsky. The book was banned for purportedly misrepresenting Indian policies.
1975	Early Islam	Desmond Stewart	This book cannot be imported into India. The book purportedly contained grievous factual errors.
1975	Nehru: A Political Biography	Michael Edwards	This book cannot be imported into India. The book purportedly contained grievous factual errors.
1976	India Independent	Charles Bettelheim	This book cannot be imported into India. It was banned for criticising the policies of the Indian government.
1978	China’s Foreign Relations Since 1949	Alan Lawrence	This book cannot be imported into India.
1978	The Reminiscence Of The Nehru Age	MO Mathai	This book explosively describes almost all important personalities of the Nehru times
1979	Who killed Gandhi	Lourenço de Salvador	This book cannot be imported into India. The book was considered inflammatory and ill-researched.
1983	The Price of Power: Kissinger and Nixon in the White House	Seymour Hersh	Briefly banned for alleging Morarji Desai to be a CIA informer. The book claimed that Morarji Desai was paid 20,000 USD per year, starting from the time of Lyndon B. Johnson. Desai obtained an injunction from the Bombay High Court for a temporary ban and sued for damages worth 5 million USD in US.
1984	Smash and Grab: Annexation of Sikkim	Sunanda K. Datta-Ray	The book dealt with India's annexation of Sikkim. The Delhi High Court had stopped its publication after a political officer station in Gangtok at the time filed a defamation suit. The book was later allowed for release.
1988	The Satanic Verses	Salman Rushdie	This book cannot be imported into India. Import ban was imposed after Muslim groups protested that it was blasphemous and hurt their religious sentiments.India was the first country to ban this book.
1989	Soft Target: How the Indian Intelligence Service Penetrated Canada	Zuhair Kashmeri and Brian McAndrew	The book claims that the Indian intelligence agencies penetrated the Canadian Sikh community, Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) in order to discredit the demand for a separate Sikh state.
1991	Understanding Islam through Hadis	Ram Swarup	The book, originally published in 1982, was banned for its critique of political Islam.
1995	The Moor's Last Sigh	Salman Rushdie	The book contained a character resembling Balasaheb Thackeray, the leader of the right-wing party Shiv Sena. The book faced protests from the party. The book also contained a dog named, Jawaharlal, named after India's first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru. Prime Minister P. V. Narasimha Rao unofficially banned the book. In September 1995, the local publishers Rupa & Co. were asked to stop selling the book. Rupa & Co. decided to approach the Supreme Court of India in response.The court the declared the ban unconstitutional in February 1996. However, book sellers were reluctant to stock the book in Maharashtra, the home of Shiv Sena, due to the fear of vandalism.
2005	The True Furqan	Al Saffee, Al Mahdee	Banned for purportedly mocking Islam. The book has been allegedly written by a Christian evangelical group to proselytise Muslims. The import of this book is strictly prohibited.
2014	Santsurya Tukaram and Loksakha Dnyaneshwar	Anand Yadav	A Pune court ordered the copies of the books to be destroyed in June 2014. The complaint Jaisingh More had claimed that the book was derogatory to Tukaram and Dnyaneshwar. The publishers defended the book. And the author's daughter stated that they will appeal in a higher court.
2017	22's Diary	P, Maîtresse	Banned for the humiliation and degradation of the male husbands role. Graphic sexual content of the wife and her lovers brutalizing her husband. The import of this book is strictly prohibited.                               https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u--hBkPq3gg