Overview
Censorship in South Asia offers an expansive and comparative exploration of cultural regulation in contemporary and colonial South Asia. These provocative essays by leading scholars broaden our understanding of what censorship might mean-beyond the simple restriction and silencing of public communication-by considering censorship's productive potential and its intimate relation to its apparent opposite, ""publicity."" The contributors investigate a wide range of public cultural phenomena, from the cinema to advertising, from street politics to political communication, and from the adjudication of blasphemy to the management of obscenity.
Full Product Details
Author: Raminder Kaur ,
William Mazzarella
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Imprint: Indiana University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 1.80cm
, Length: 23.50cm
Weight: 0.431kg
ISBN: 9780253220936
ISBN 10: 0253220939
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 29 June 2009
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
This is an exciting and innovative volume that will become the standard reference in the field for some time to come. Thomas Blom Hansen, author of The Saffron Wave: Democracy and Hindu Nationalism in Modern India Seeking to cover a plethora of issues ranging from the censorship of films and images in the late eighteenth century to the veil of secrecy surrounding India's nuclear program, Raminder Kaur and William Mazzarella's edited volume asserts that the logic of censorship is not recent but can rather be traced back to colonizer's logic of control, namely, the protection of the colonial state from nationalist claims...this insightful volume on a neglected topic shows that means and modes of censorship have kept pace with the mediums of communication, on grounds not dissimilar to the justification offered during the Raj. - Meraj Ahmed Mubarki, Contemporary South Asia, August 2012
This is an exciting and innovative volume that will become the standard reference in the field for some time to come. Thomas Blom Hansen, author of The Saffron Wave: Democracy and Hindu Nationalism in Modern India
Author Information
Raminder Kaur is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Sussex. Her books include Performative Politics and the Cultures of Hinduism and Bollyworld: Indian Cinema through a Transnational Lens. William Mazzarella is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago and author of Shoveling Smoke: Advertising and Globalization in Contemporary India.
