War over words censorship in India, 1930-1960

By:

Sethi, Devika

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2019Description: xiv,289p. 24 cmISBN:

9781108484244

Other title:

Censorship in India, 1930-1960

Subject(s):

Freedom of the press -- India -- History -- 20th century

DDC classification:

363.3109540904 23 SE-W

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"--

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Item type	Home library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Print	OPJGU Sonepat- Campus Main Library	General Books	363.3109540904 SE-W (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		143233

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

"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"--

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