James W. Laine’s Shivaji: Hindu King In Muslim India has now been arbitrarily banned by thegovernment of Mashrashtra in response to an attack on the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute in Pune onJanuary 5, 2004 by cadres of an organization that calls itself the ‘Sambhaji Brigade’, and the subsequentagitation by the Maratha Seva Sangh against not only Laine’s book but also against all those whose helpLaine acknowledges. This includes scholars as well as non-scholarly persons in both India and abroad who theauthor thinks deserve to be thanked in print.