{"id":9370,"date":"2010-08-07T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-07T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/08\/07\/maharashtra-mulls-new-law-in-the-wake-of-shivaji-book-controversy\/"},"modified":"2010-08-07T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-07T12:00:00","slug":"maharashtra-mulls-new-law-in-the-wake-of-shivaji-book-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/08\/07\/maharashtra-mulls-new-law-in-the-wake-of-shivaji-book-controversy\/","title":{"rendered":"Maharashtra Mulls New Law in The Wake of Shivaji Book Controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/Maharashtra-mulls-law-to-stop-defamation-of-icons\/articleshow\/6160999.cms\">timesofindia.indiatimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NEW DELHI, July 12, 2010: The Indian Supreme Court  dismissed Bombay High Court&#8217;s decision to quash the ban and confiscation of the controversial book &#8212; &#8220;Shivaji &#8211; The Hindu King in Muslim India,&#8221; as a &#8220;drastic&#8221; exercise in governamental power, a power that should be exercised cautiously to uphold the Constitution. <\/p>\n<p>But less than a week after Supreme Court slammed the Maharashtra government for banning American author James Laine&#8217;s book on Shivaji, the state is contemplating a legislation to stop defamation of national, historical or community icons. <\/p>\n<p>Maharashtra home minister R R Patil announced in the assembly on Monday that the state would introduce a bill in the winter session to ban such books.  Patil said, &#8220;We will not allow defamation of Chhatrapati Shivaji and Jeejamata. This is a matter of Maharashtra&#8217;s asmita (pride).&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Lawyers, however, say a &#8220;general law seeking to ban books&#8221; will not stand the constitional validity test. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com NEW DELHI, July 12, 2010: The Indian Supreme Court dismissed Bombay High Court&#8217;s decision to quash the ban,&#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-9370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9370","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=9370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}