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9780253220936

Censorship in South Asia

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  • ISBN13:

    9780253220936

  • ISBN10:

    0253220939

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2009-06-08
  • Publisher: Indiana Univ Pr

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Summary

The cultural politics of censorship, from colonial paintings to onscreen kisses and nuclear secrets

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgmentsp. vii
Between Sedition and Seduction Thinking Censorship in South Asiap. 1
Iatrogenic Religion and Politicsp. 29
Making Sense of the Cinema in Late Colonial Indiap. 63
The Limits of Decency and the Decency of Limits Censorship and the Bombay Film Industryp. 87
Anxiety, Failure, and Censorship in Indian Advertisingp. 123
Nuclear Revelationsp. 140
Specters of Macaulay Blasphemy, the Indian Penal Code, and Pakistan's Postcolonial Predicamentp. 172
After the Massacre Secrecy, Disbelief, and the Public Sphere in Nepalp. 206
List of Contributorsp. 235
Indexp. 237
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