{"id":22030,"date":"2020-08-24T23:06:32","date_gmt":"2020-08-24T14:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/24\/bloomsbury-india-pulls-delhi-riots-2020-book-after-anti-muslim-controversy"},"modified":"2020-08-24T23:06:32","modified_gmt":"2020-08-24T14:06:32","slug":"bloomsbury-india-pulls-delhi-riots-book-after-anti-muslim-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=22030","title":{"rendered":"Bloomsbury India pulls Delhi riots book after anti-Muslim controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Delhi Riots 2020 claims violence was result of Muslim jihadist conspiracy but critics accuse publisher of censorship<\/p>\n<p>Bloomsbury India has pulled a controversial book claiming to tell the untold story of February\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/01\/india-delhi-after-hindu-mob-riot-religious-hatred-nationalists\">Delhi riots<\/a>, after the publisher was accused of giving a platform to unsubstantiated allegations and strengthening an anti-Muslim agenda.<\/p>\n<p>The book, titled Delhi Riots 2020: The Untold Story, claims that the riots were the result of a conspiracy by Muslim jihadists and so-called \u201curban naxals\u201d, a derogatory term used to describe left-wing activists, who had a role to play in the riots. The claim contravenes reports by organisations such as Amnesty International and the Delhi Minorities Commission that Muslims bore the brunt of the violence.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/24\/bloomsbury-india-pulls-delhi-riots-2020-book-after-anti-muslim-controversy\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delhi Riots 2020 claims violence was result of Muslim jihadist conspiracy but critics accuse publisher of censorshipBloomsbury India has pulled a controversial book claiming to tell the untold story of February\u2019s Delhi riots, after the publisher was ac&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[511,6,71,516,62,1642,371,61,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-business","category-culture","category-hinduism","category-india","category-publishing","category-religion","category-south-and-central-asia","category-uk-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22030"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22031,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22030\/revisions\/22031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}