Abdul Baha censored the book

In the immediate aftermath of the Bolshevik Revolution, Baha’is increasingly confronted secular modes of thought. As was the case in India, publishing and public debates often went hand-in-hand. In 1919 to 1920, Sayyid Mahdi entered into a public debate with communists on a range of economic and religious issues resulting in the publication of a treatise on socialism and the Baha’i Faith. Sayyid Mahdi’s engagement with secular modes of thinking included Kashf al-Ghita, a posthumous expanded version of his uncle’s refutation of the British scholar E. G. Browne’s works on the Baha’i Faith. ‘Abdu’l-Baha censored the book for its overly polemical tone, once again demonstrating his active monitoring of printed Baha’i books.

(Farzin Vejdani, Transnational Baha’i Print Culture: Community Formation and Religious Authority, 1890–1921, Journal of Religious History, Vol. 36, No. 4, December 2012)