Five years ago, the release in India of “The Red Sari,” about the president of the then-governing Indian National Congress Party, Sonia Gandhi, was unthinkable. Her loyalists burned effigies of its Spanish author, Javier Moro, and according to the Spanish publisher, lawyers representing the Gandhi family threatened a lawsuit.

“Mr. Moro acknowledged that part of the reason he waited to publish in India was because he wanted an English edition to come out in the West, which represents a bigger market than India. But he also said the party had made it too difficult for him to publish the book in India earlier, and that the tug of war over the book delayed the English language edition.”

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