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| ==Vandalism in 2004== | |||
| The institute was vandalized on Monday, 5 January 2004 by a mob made up of members of an extremist self-styled ] youth squad, calling themselves the ], named after ]'s elder son. They claimed to be angered by the help provided by the institute's staff (in translating manuscripts) to a Western writer, ], who discussed the telling and retelling of stories about ]'s parentage and life in his book on narrations of the Shivaji story.<ref> ] - 6 January 2004</ref> The mob also damaged thousands of manuscripts<ref>, ]</ref> and attacked Shrikant Bahulkar, a Sanskrit scholar who had only explained some Sanskrit references to Laine.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Cities/Pune/Raj-Thackeray-apologises-to-Bahulkar/articleshow/388216.cms | work=The Times Of India | title=Raj Thackeray apologises to Bahulkar | date=29 December 2003}}</ref> The incident provoked widespread reaction<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.complete-review.com/quarterly/vol5/issue1/laine0.htm | title=James Laine’s Shivaji: Hindu King in Islamic India and the attack on the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute | work=Complete Review | date=February 2004 | volume=5 | issue=1 | accessdate=27 November 2018 }}</ref> and historian ] to destroy parts of his in-progress biography of Shivaji.<ref></ref><ref name="ownwork/"> | |||
| The vandalism and the subsequent ban on the book were denounced in a statement by historians, among whom were ], ], Suraj Bhan, ], ], ] and ].<ref>{{cite news | |||
| | url = http://www.hinduonnet.com/2004/01/18/stories/2004011802911000.htm | |||
| | title = Historians protest ban on book | |||
| | publisher = ] | |||
| | date = 2004-01-18 | |||
| | accessdate = 2009-04-05 | |||
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| ] - publisher of James Laine's, ''Shivaji: Hindu king in Islamic India'', withdrew the book after protests from Historian ] and other right-wing politicians as it contained objectionable statements about ].<ref name="ownwork">{{Cite news | |||
| | last =Damle | first =Manjiri | authorlink = | coauthors =| title =Scholar destroys own work on Shivaji| work =The Times of India, Pune | publisher =Times News Network| date =2003-12-27 | url =http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/385489.cms| format = | doi = | accessdate =2010-05-17 }}</ref> | |||
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