why da vinci code was banned in india?

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Adapted with thanks from The New York Times

(Western Colonialism in Asia and Christianity, Page. 85, Himalaya Publishing House,Bombay,1988.)

A India Portuguesa, Vol.11, Nova Goa", 1923, p.263 cited in Goa Inquisition by Pirlokar Page.175

We express our heartfelt gratitude to the services of many noble and brave souls whose research work we have used here. Here is the list of such humanist and honest works we have used in creating this presentation:

Nag Hammadi online library [http://www.nag-hammadi.com]

Encyclopedia Romana online [http://penelope.uchicago.edu]

Wikipedia: Online encyclopedia [http://en.wikipedia.org]

Pagan origins of Christianity website

Internet Infidels online library [www.Infidels.org ]

Jesus never existed website [ www.jesusneverexisted.com ]

Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels

The Masks of God by Joseph Campbell

Hitler’s Pope by John Cornwell

A Moral Reckoning by Daniel Goldhagen

Goa Inquisition and Niyogi Committee report by Voice of India

Chinna Karuppan for his illuminating essays at thinnai.com

Indians against Christian aggression website

And of course ‘The Da Vinci Code’