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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 Maratha youth squad, calling themselves the Sambhaji Brigade, named after Shivaji's elder son. They claimed to be angered by the help provided by the institute's staff (in translating manuscripts) to a Western writer, 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. The mob also damaged thousands of manuscripts and attacked Shrikant Bahulkar, a Sanskrit scholar who had only explained some Sanskrit references to Laine. The incident provoked widespread reaction and historian Gajanan Mehendale to destroy parts of his in-progress biography of Shivaji.Cite error: A <ref> tag is missing the closing </ref> (see the help page).
Oxford University Press - publisher of James Laine's, Shivaji: Hindu king in Islamic India, withdrew the book after protests from Historian Ninad Bedekar and other right-wing politicians as it contained objectionable statements about Shivaji.
- 'Maratha' activists vandalise Bhandarkar Institute Times of India - 6 January 2004
- Mob ransacks Bhandarkar Institute, destroys rare manuscripts, The Hindu
- "Raj Thackeray apologises to Bahulkar". The Times Of India. 29 December 2003.
- "James Laine's Shivaji: Hindu King in Islamic India and the attack on the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute". Complete Review. Vol. 5, no. 1. February 2004. Retrieved 27 November 2018.
- Historian destroys magnum opus
- Damle, Manjiri (2003-12-27). "Scholar destroys own work on Shivaji". The Times of India, Pune. Times News Network. Retrieved 2010-05-17.
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