India's three-decade-long ban on an iconic book may have effectively ended due to the government's inability to locate the original notification enforcing the ban.
In 1988, India banned Salman Rushdie's "The Satanic Verses" due to protests from Muslim communities who deemed the novel blasphemous. The decision was reinforced by violent demonstrations across the Muslim world and a ruling issued by Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini which called for Rushdie's assassination.
