War Over Words - Censorship in India, 1930-1960

Informationen zum Autor 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. Zusammenfassung War over Words 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Product details

• Authors: Devika Sethi
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.05.2019
• EAN: 9781108484244
• ISBN: 978-1-108-48424-4
• No. of pages: 325
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, India, c 1950 to c 1959, Asian History, c 1930 to c 1939, c 1940 to c 1949, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), Political control and freedoms, Ethical Issues: Censorship, C 1945 To C 1960, Freedom Of Information & Freedom Of Speech, HISTORY / Asia / South / General