A Book that provoked an Attack on an Indian Research Institute was withdrawn by Oxford University Press.

On January 5, 2004 activists from the Sambhaji Brigade destroyed manuscripts and books at the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute (BORI) in Pune, in the state of Maharashtra, India. The attack was provoked by publication of Shivaji by James Laine, Oxford University Press. The objections were religious and political. The book was withdrawn from sale in the region.

The Complete Review described the attack on the collection:

There was considerable damage done to the holdings of this significant cultural repository, including to irreplaceable and unique objects of historical and literary importance. While not on the same scale, it was a catastrophe comparable to the recent destruction and looting of libraries in Sarajevo and Iraq, or the destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas in Afghanistan, a devastating blow to contemporary civilization and to the preservation of what remains of previous ones.

Traditional buildings in Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute (BORI)

References:

Baldauf, Scott. 2004. "How a US Historian Sparked Calls for His Arrest--in India." The Christian Science Monitor 96, 85: 1.

James Laine’s  Shivaji: Hindu King in Islamic India and the attack on the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute. Background - Chronology - Reactions. Complete Review February 2004.

Laine, James W. Shivaji. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.

Novetzke, Christian Lee. 2004. “The Laine Controversy and the Study of Hinduism.” International Journal of Hindu Studies 8 (1–3): 183–201.