Thailand bans textbook on national security grounds

Bangkok Post · AFP · 2026-11-05 08:55 UTC

Thailand has banned a textbook about the country on national security grounds, with the book’s exiled editor saying on Thursday that it was outlawed over its content on the monarchy.

Thailand has banned a textbook about the country on national security grounds, with the book’s exiled editor saying on Thursday that it was outlawed over its content on the monarchy.

The book, a second edition of the Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Thailand, published in English in August, was edited by Pavin Chachavalpongpun, a prominent academic and critic of the monarchy who is based in Japan.

It contains chapters on Thailand’s monarchy in the 21st century and the government’s use of Section 112 of the Criminal Code, the lese-majeste law.

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