New Delhi: Penguin Random House (PRH) India will not distribute cartoonist and journalist Joe Sacco’s The Once and Future Riot about the Muzaffarnagar violence because, the publisher’s CEO told the Indian Express, the book contains an inaccurate map of India and a number of other unspecified “red flags”.Other than the map that contains “inaccurate boundaries of India”, PRH India CEO Gaurav Shrinagesh told the Express, the publisher had asked Penguin UK about “some content questions and asked for citations, which never came”.“We are very clear about this: if we know there is an inaccurate map and no changes are forthcoming, we will not do it. We have decided there will be no distribution of the book due to these red flags not being attended to,” Shrinagesh was quoted as saying. It is not clear what content PRH India has taken issue with.Sacco’s The Once and Future Riot cartoon book published by Metropolitan Books last year investigates the communal violence that killed at least 60 people and displaced over 60,000 others – mostly Muslims – in western Uttar Pradesh’s Muzaffarnagar in September 2013 and draws out their relevance for the world 13 years later.Speaking to Meghnad Bose for the Jamhoor outlet, Sacco – who’d travelled to Muzaffarnagar in 2014 to speak to officials, politicians and victims – said of The Once and Future Riot that he wanted readers “to come away with some questions and think about democracy and its relationship to electoral politics and why are we intertwining ourselves with violence”.Asked about the book’s title, he observed that in India but also elsewhere in the world today, “everything is in place for a spark to start a riot, whether that riot is spontaneous or directed – even spontaneous riots will get directed. There are politicians who are going to see what use can be made out of this.”In The Once and Future Riot‘s last chapter Sacco says, as noted by the Express, that “communal violence, planned or not, can confer some electoral advantage” and “bloodshed, properly framed, is nothing but a political building block”.The Muzaffarnagar riots led to unprecedented communal polarisation in western Uttar Pradesh, breaking old electoral and social bonds between Muslims and Jats. The BJP, from which several leaders and legislators were accused of instigating the riots, reaped the benefits of the communal divide in the state, especially in this region.What actually happened on August 27 and 28, 2013, leading up to the deadly violence a week later, is still disputed, with contradictory narratives from both sides.Sacco is considered a pioneer in war reporting through graphics and comics as his medium and is a recipient of several accolades, including for his most popular work Palestine, which broke new ground by way of its role in capturing the violence in the eponymous country.