Devika Sethi

War over Words

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 594g
• ISBN-13: 9781108484244
• ISBN-10: 1108484247
• Artikelnr.: 56882332

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.