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War over words : censorship in India, 1930-1960 / Devika Sethi.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2019Description: xiv, 289 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781108484244
Other title:
  • Censorship in India, 1930-1960
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 363.3109540904 23
LOC classification:
  • KNS2119 .S48 2019
Partial contents:
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.
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.
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Books Books Symbiosis School for Liberal Arts 363/SET (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available SSLA-B-10221

Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-280) and indexes.

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.

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