{"id":4139,"date":"2004-04-17T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-04-17T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2004\/04\/17\/2004-04-17-shivaji-author-submits-apology\/"},"modified":"2004-04-17T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-04-17T12:00:00","slug":"2004-04-17-shivaji-author-submits-apology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2004\/04\/17\/2004-04-17-shivaji-author-submits-apology\/","title":{"rendered":"Shivaji Author Submits Apology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/sify.com\/cities\/mumbai\/fullstory.php?id=13455653\">Source<\/a><\/P><P>MUMBAI, INDIA, April 17, 2004: Author James Laine yesterday submitted a fresh apology to the Bombay High Court, in what appears to signal the end of the controversy over his book Shivaji: Hindu King in Islamic India. The state government informed the court that it would consider withdrawing the first information report (FIR, a police charge) against the publishers, Oxford University Press, and the author, once it received the final draft of the apology. <BR><br \/>\n<BR><br \/>\nThe division bench of Justice S. Radhakrishnan and Justice R. S. Mohite remarked that it was in favor of a compromise with a view to ending the violence over the book. In the draft submitted in court by Laine&#8217;s counsel Mahesh Jethmalani, the author clarified that &#8220;historical evidence in fact suggested that Shahaji was indeed Shivaji&#8217;s biological father.&#8221; <BR><br \/>\n<BR><br \/>\nLaine said in the apology: &#8220;It was never my intention to denigrate Shivaji or outrage sentiments. It is obvious that there can be no historical basis for jokes. Historical evidence suggests that Shahaji was Shivaji&#8217;s biological father and that is also my view. In writing the book, I had hoped to contribute in some way to a rich understanding of this great man. I forthwith direct my publishers to henceforth delete the offending paragraph on Page 93 from all future publications of the book worldwide.&#8221;<BR><br \/>\n<\/P> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SourceMUMBAI, INDIA, April 17, 2004: Author James Laine yesterday submitted a fresh apology to the Bombay High Court, in what,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}