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KOLHAPUR: Following a precocious tribunal directive, Oxford University Press has apologised to Chhatrapati Udayanraje Bhosale, 13th descendant of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, and others offended by “unverified statements” successful 4 pages of James Laine’s 2003 book, ‘Shivaji: Hindu King successful Islamic India’.
Protests implicit these had led to an onslaught connected a Pune-based past probe centre.Acting connected a directive from Bombay precocious court’s Kolhapur bench, Oxford University Press (OUP) India has issued a nationalist apology to Chhatrapati Udayanraje Bhosale, the 13th descendant of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, and anyone other offended by “unverified statements” crossed 4 pages of James Laine’s 2003 publication Shivaji: Hindu King successful Islamic India.The contention erupted successful 2004, triggering an onslaught connected a Pune-based past probe centre. OUP India said successful a announcement published successful newspapers Tuesday that definite references connected pages 31, 33, 34 and 93 of the publication were recovered to beryllium unverified and that it regretted that the contentious portions went done undetected astatine the clip of publication.Based connected a ailment filed by Bhosale, a tribunal had initiated transgression defamation proceedings connected April 2, 2005, nether Section 500 (defamation) of the IPC against OUP India’s Sayeed Manzar Khan and 3 others.
They appealed successful the precocious court, which referred the substance to its Kolhapur bench. Justice Shivkumar Dige took up the petition connected Dec 17 past year.Lawyers representing Khan and his chap petitioners that their clients were acceptable to people a announcement “nationally”, apologising to responsive No 1 (Bhosale). The seat gave the quartet 15 days to support their committedness and quashed the magisterial court’s bid for proceedings against them.In an email effect to queries from TOI, the publishing house’s India typical Ruchika Tandon said, “OUP India publishes a wide scope of resources, with a assortment of perspectives crossed antithetic disciplines. The rubric successful question was published for a little play much than 2 decades agone successful India. In effect to concerns astir title’s contented which were raised astatine the time, we took punctual steps to callback the rubric and retreat it from circulation.
”Tandon said OUP India seeks to “consider taste sensitivities and discourse cautiously to guarantee that our products tin beryllium work and enjoyed by arsenic galore radical worldwide arsenic possible”.
