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`Will back action against foreign author'

BEED (MAHARASHTRA), MARCH 20. Describing the Maratha Emperor Chhattrapati Shivaji as a "true nationalist and the greatest ever war strategist,'' Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee said today that the Centre would back the Maharashtra Government if it took action against a ``foreign author'' who had penned a controversial book on Shivaji.

``If the Maharashtra Government does not take action, the Centre would take action on its own,'' Mr. Vajpayee said addressing a huge rally where a dozen people were detained for slogan shouting in protest against Mr Vajpayee's earlier stand that a ban might not be the right way to tackle such a book.

Controversy erupted in Maharashtra in January over American writer James Laine's book ``Shivaji - Hindu King in Muslim India'' and activists of a maratha outfit had vandalised the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Centre at Pune from where the author had accessed source materials on the subject. In the book, the author had made certain ``derogatory remarks'' against Shivaji, who is revered in Maharashtra as well as India. - UNI

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