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The writer, the reader and the state : literary censorship in India / Mini Chandran.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks, California : SAGE Publications, 2017Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9386446081
  • 9789386446091
  • 938644609X
  • 9789386446084
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Writer, the reader and the state.DDC classification:
  • 363.310954 23
LOC classification:
  • PK2903
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Contents:
Cover; Contents; Preface; Introduction: Besieged Wordsand Strategies of Control; 1 The Writer and the State:The Indian Literary Tradition; 2 Censorship Laws and Colonial Roots; 3 Banned in India: Books Denied to Indian Readers; 4 The Bhasha Fights: Censorship inRegional Languages; 5 Of Shame and Silence:The Emergency 1975-77; 6 The 'Democratization' of Censorship:Books and the Indian Public; Index; About the Author
Summary: This book offers a comprehensive account of the censorship of literature in India since Independence and the recent trends in literature banning.
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Cover; Contents; Preface; Introduction: Besieged Wordsand Strategies of Control; 1 The Writer and the State:The Indian Literary Tradition; 2 Censorship Laws and Colonial Roots; 3 Banned in India: Books Denied to Indian Readers; 4 The Bhasha Fights: Censorship inRegional Languages; 5 Of Shame and Silence:The Emergency 1975-77; 6 The 'Democratization' of Censorship:Books and the Indian Public; Index; About the Author

This book offers a comprehensive account of the censorship of literature in India since Independence and the recent trends in literature banning.

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