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War Over Words : Censorship in India, 1930-1960 / Devika Sethi.
Publisher: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2019Description: xiv, 289 pages ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781108484244
- Censorship in India, 1930-1960
- 363.310954 SETÂ 23
- KNS2119Â .S48 2019
Partial contents:
Summary: "Censorship has been a universal phenomenon through history. However, its rationale and implementation has varied, and public reaction to it has differed across societies and times. This book recovers, narrates, and interrogates the history of censorship of publications in India over three crucial decades - encompassing the Gandhian anti-colonial movement, the Second World War, Partition, and the early years of independent India. In doing so, it examines state policy and practice, and also its subversion, in a tumultuous period of transition from colonial to self-rule in India"-- Provided by publisher.
Content:
Introduction;
Guarding the State, protecting the public: censorship policies and practices in the 1930s;
Protests and publicity: banning non-Indian authors;
Political or military? Censorship in India during the Second World War;
The censored turn censors: freedom and free speech.
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| 363.25 SHA Innocent prisoners : stories of Muslim youth falsely implicated in terror cases / | 363.252 LYO Surveillance studies : an overview / | 363.2540954 LOK The Truth Machines : | 363.310954 SET War Over Words : | 363.320954 AHU Internal security in India : violence, order, and the state / | 363.341 TIE Disasters : a sociological approach / | 363.410954 ALA Sober state : origins of alcohol prohibition in India / |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-280) and indexes.
Content:
Introduction;
Guarding the State, protecting the public: censorship policies and practices in the 1930s;
Protests and publicity: banning non-Indian authors;
Political or military? Censorship in India during the Second World War;
The censored turn censors: freedom and free speech.
"Censorship has been a universal phenomenon through history. However, its rationale and implementation has varied, and public reaction to it has differed across societies and times. This book recovers, narrates, and interrogates the history of censorship of publications in India over three crucial decades - encompassing the Gandhian anti-colonial movement, the Second World War, Partition, and the early years of independent India. In doing so, it examines state policy and practice, and also its subversion, in a tumultuous period of transition from colonial to self-rule in India"-- Provided by publisher.