Rangila Rasul was a book published during the time of Arya Samaj

Arya Samaj

Arya Samaj is a Hindu reform movement founded by Swami Dayananda on 10 April 1875. He was a sannyasi who believed in the infallible authority of the Vedas. Dayananda emphasized the ideals of brahmacharya...

 and Muslim

Muslim

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 confrontation in Punjab

Punjab (British India)

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 during the 1920s. It was supposedly a retaliatory action from the Hindu community against a pamphlet published by a Muslim depicting the Hindu goddess Sita

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 as a prostitute.

It was written by Arya Samaji, Pt. Chamupati in 1927, whose name was never revealed by the publisher Rajpal in Lahore

Lahore

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. On the basis of Muslim complaints, Rajpal was arrested but acquitted in April 1929 after 5 years of trial. It is believed that the presiding judge was of Christian faith. After several unsuccessful attempts to kill Rajpal, he was stabbed to death by a young man named Ilam Din on April 6, 1929. Ilam Din was later killed by hanging.

Originally written in Urdu

Urdu

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, it has been translated in Hindi It remains banned in India

India

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, Pakistan

Pakistan

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 and Bangladesh

Bangladesh

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, though India and Bangladesh claim to be secular.