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The book is about Censorship and Freedom Of Expression in India. It contains court documents which document the Banning Of Books and the banning of criticism of religion in India. The book criticizes the banning of Ram Swarup's book Understanding Islam Through Hadis . SECULARISM AND THEOCRACY In the first part of the book, the banning of books, particulary of Ram Swarup's "Understanding Islam through Hadis", is discussed. Sita Ram Goel discusses the concept of " Indian Secularism ". He points out that the term "Indian Secularism" was borrowed by Nehru from Western political parlance, who "perverted it to mean the opposite of what it meant" in the West. Secularism in the West was a revolt against the closed creed of Christianity and had meant a freeing of the State from the clutches of the Church . Goel argues that "In the Indian context it should have meant a revolt against the closed creed of Islam as well, and keeping the state aloof from the influence of mullahs." But according to Goel, Nehru "turned Secularism in India into a poisonous slogan for the use of a Muslim-Communist Christian combine which he had forged in order to keep the national majority down." The term became "a euphemism for Hindu-baiting". Goel furthermore claims that India has become in many ways a " Theocracy ". He says: "Leftists in general have always opposed Theocracy in Muslim and Christian countries. It is only in India that they have become its unrivalled champions." LIBERAL DEMOCRACY The second part of the book is called "Liberal Democracy" and contains twelve reviews of Ibn Warraq 's book '' Why I Am Not A Muslim ''. Most of these reviews were originally published in the West. SEE ALSO |
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