“Not in Our Good”: Nationalist and other Concerns in the Censorship Debates in Early Indian Cinema

The present article traces the historical and cultural roots of the censorship practices in cinema in late-colonial India. The emergence of the censorship in India, it suggests, carries a larger concern of the hierarchized nationalist public sphere which sought to establish its effective social cont...

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Main Author: Binayak Bhattacharya
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Ratnabali Publisher 2016-02-01
Series:Sanglap: Journal of Literary and Cultural Inquiry
Online Access:http://sanglap-journal.in/index.php/sanglap/article/view/127