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

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Description	1 online resource
	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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Subject	Indic literature -- Censorship.
	Indic literature.
	Censorship.
	Indic literature (English) -- Censorship.
	Indic literature (English)
	Censorship -- India -- History.
	India.
	History.
	Intellectual freedom -- India.
	Intellectual freedom.
	Books and reading -- India -- History.
	Books and reading.
	Authors and readers -- India -- History.
	Authors and readers.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History.
Subject	Censorship.
Other Form:	Print version: Chandran, Mini. Writer, the reader and the state. New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks, California : SAGE Publications, 2017 9789386446077 (DLC) 2017006295
ISBN	9386446081 (Web PDF)
	9789386446091 (E-Pub 2.0)
	938644609X (E-Pub 2.0)
	9789386446084 (electronic book)
	9789386446077 (print ; alkaline paper)