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2 unusual facts about Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute


Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute

They claimed to be angered by the help provided by the institute's staff (in translating manuscripts) to a Western writer, Dr. James Laine, who discussed the telling and retelling of stories about Shivaji's parentage and life in his book on narrations of the Shivaji story.

Oxford University Press - publisher of James Laine's, Shivaji: Hindu king in Islamic India, withdrew the book after protests from Ninad Bedekar and other right-wing politicians as it contained allegedly objectionable statements about Shivaji.



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