Peter Heehs (born 1948) is an American historian living in Puducherry, India, who writes on modern Indian history, spirituality and religion.
Heehs's ninth book, The Lives of Sri Aurobindo (Columbia University Press, 2008), was intended for scholarly readers.
[12] It received positive reviews in the United States[13] but was objected to by a large number of devotees of Sri Aurobindo,[14] who have delayed the publication of the book in India.
[19] Leading public intellectuals such as Ramachandra Guha[20] and Pratap Bhanu Mehta[21] wrote about the issue in their newspaper columns.
[22] The affair became a point of reference in discussions in the Indian and international press of freedom of expression,[23][24][25] book banning,[26][27][28][29] censorship,[30][31] xenophobia,[32] and visa policy.