Books criticizing major religions of India, as well as books supposedly portraying national figures including Gandhi and Nehru in a bad light continue to remain banned.
[1] After protests by Muslims and a petition by Syed Shahabuddin to the Rajiv Gandhi government, The Satanic Verses was banned in 1988, with India becoming the first country to ban the book.
[2] Many books in India are or were banned for disagreeing with Islam and Hinduism's teachings.
[3] Books were banned for criticizing Gandhi and other important Indian historical figures.
[3] The Scented Garden: Anthropology of the Sex Life in the Levant was banned due to sexually explicit content.