Title | Author(s) | Year published | Type | Notes | |
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Satyarth Prakash | Dayananda Saraswati | 1875 | Religious text | Swami Dayananda's religious text Satyarth Prakash was banned in some princely states and in Sindh in 1944 and is still banned in Sindh.[1] | |
Rangila Rasul (1927) | Pt. Chamupati | 1927 | Religious | Currently banned in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.[2] | |
Jinnah of Pakistan (1982) | Stanley Wolpert | 1982 | Biography | Banned in 1984 by the military dictator Zia-ul-Haq's government because of some 'offending passages'. Ban lifted in 1989 by the next democratic government.[3] | |
The Satanic Verses (1988) | Salman Rushdie | 1988 | Novel | Banned for blasphemy against Islam.[4] | |
The Truth About Muhammad | Robert Spencer | 2006 | Non-fiction | On December 20, 2006, the government of Pakistan announced a ban on Spencer's book, citing "objectionable material" as the cause.[5] |