Censorship in South Asia: Cultural Regulation from Sedition to Seduction

Censorship in South Asia offers an expansive and comparative exploration of cultural regulation in contemporary and colonial South Asia. These provocative essays by leading scholars broaden our understanding of what censorship might mean--beyond the simple restriction and silencing of public communication--by considering censorship's productive potential and its intimate relation to its apparent opposite, publicity. The contributors investigate a wide range of public cultural phenomena, from the cinema to advertising, from street politics to political communication, and from the adjudication of blasphemy to the management of obscenity.

Author: Raminder Kaur
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 06/29/2009
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.10w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780253220936

About the Author

Raminder Kaur is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Sussex. Her books include Performative Politics and the Cultures of Hinduism and Bollyworld: Indian Cinema through a Transnational Lens.

William Mazzarella is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago and author of Shoveling Smoke: Advertising and Globalization in Contemporary India.