Talk:The Calcutta Quran Petition

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Two questions

Is this book merely a collection of events or does it have a unifying theme?
This is a book about banning. We this book itself actually banned? -- 67.127.56.197 07:01, 28 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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As explained here the following was deleted in the article by Hornplease (talk · contribs) but no reason was put on the talkpage. Why was it deleted, and how could it be improved.. http://en.wiki.x.io/w/index.php?title=The_Calcutta_Quran_Petition&diff=prev&oldid=126091322 Further reading

Elst, Koenraad, Ayodhya and After: Issues Before Hindu Society (1991)
Freedom of expression - Secular Theocracy Versus Liberal Democracy (1998, edited by Sita Ram Goel)

External links

Full Online book The Calcutta Quran Petition
Negationism in India
Book banning
The Case of Inder Sain Sharma About the "poster"
The story of the Quran petition
Book review by N.S. Rajaram
Review by D. Kabir Das

i dont' understand why the links were removedLibrorum Prohibitorum (talk) 03:31, 22 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Good catch, I have restored the material.--CltFn (talk) 07:15, 23 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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What is this article about? The book or the petition? TrangaBellam (talk) 16:27, 8 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

It appears that The Times of India archives are digitized by Proquest. This probably contains some reporting about the subject — (The Times of India published three articles by Dr. Rafiq Zakaria in praise of the Quran).
The Telegraph of Calcutta (May 9, 10, 14, 18), The Statesman (May 9, 13, 14), and Navabharat Times (May 22) are the newspaper sources, referred to in Goel's book. The span extends to roughly a fortnight and WP:NOTNEWS likely applies.
Hmm, the incident appears to have some deservedly-negative coverage in scholarly journals but Goel's book does not appear to have interested any scholar:

"Right Stand, Wrong Reasons". Economic and Political Weekly. 20 (19): 814–814. 11 May 1985. ISSN 0012-9976.
Mody, Nawaz B. (1987). "The Press in India: The Shah Bano Judgment and Its Aftermath". Asian Survey. 27 (8): 945. doi:10.2307/2644865. ISSN 0004-4687. TrangaBellam (talk) 17:48, 8 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Making this an article about the case. TrangaBellam (talk) 15:59, 13 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]