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Author:   Devika Sethi
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.60cm
Weight:   0.500kg
ISBN:  

9781108484244

ISBN 10:   1108484247
Pages:   325
Publication Date:   23 May 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction; Part I. Guarding the State, Protecting the Public: Censorship Policies and Practices in the 1930s: 1. The power of print; 2. Provincial autonomy (1937–1939) and free speech controversies; Part II. Protests and Publicity: Banning Non-Indian Authors: 3. Critiques of Indian society: Katherine Mayo's Long Shadow; 4. 'Hurt' or 'hatred'? Publications by non-Indians offensive to Indian Muslims; Part III. Political or Military? Censorship in India during the Second World War: 5. Blue pencils, red pencils: censoring the news in wartime; 6. A contradiction in terms? 'Voluntary censorship'; Part IV. The Censored Turn Censors: Freedom and Free Speech: 7. Free speech or hate speech? Partition and censorship; 8. 'An education in realism': The first amendment to the Indian Constitution; 9. The living biographies of religious leaders controversy (1956); Conclusion; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index.

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Devika Sethi teaches Modern Indian History at the Indian Institute of Technology, Mandi. Her research areas are free speech and censorship in a context of colonialism and decolonization.

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