Censorship in South Asia : cultural regulation from sedition to seduction / edited by Raminder Kaur, William Mazzarella. - Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2009. - vii, 243 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Between sedition and seduction : thinking censorship in South Asia / Iatrogenic religion and politics / Making sense of the cinema in late colonial India / The limits of decency and the decency of limits : censorship and the Bombay film industry / Anxiety, failure, and censorship in Indian advertising / Nuclear revelations / Specters of Macaulay : blasphemy, the Indian penal code, and Pakistan's postcolonial predicament / After the massacre : secrecy, disbelief, and the public sphere in Nepal / William Mazzarella and Raminder Kaur -- Christopher Pinney -- William Mazzarella -- Tejaswini Ganti -- Angad Chowdhury -- Raminder Kaur -- Asad Ali Ahmed -- Genevieve Lakier. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.

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