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Censorship in India has taken various forms throughout its history. Although de jure the Constitution of India guarantees freedom of expression , [ 1 ] de facto there are various restrictions on content, with an official view towards "maintaining communal and religious harmony", given the history of communal tension in the nation.
4 March – the first Aircraft carrier of Indian Navy, INS Vikrant was commissioned. [2] 19 April - Indian Foreign Service officer K. Sankara Pillai assassinated at Indian High Commission, Ottawa by a youth of Yugoslavian origins. This is the first martyr-ship of an Indian Diplomat. [3]
Hicky's Bengal Gazette in 1781, India's first newspaper Amrita Bazar Patrika in 1908, India's first Gujarati language and oldest bilingual newspaper started around 1868 Freedom of the press in British India or freedom of the press in pre-independence India refers to the censorship on print media during the period of British rule by the British ...
The 1961 Jabalpur Riots were the first major-scale riots between Hindus and Muslims in post-Partition India, which erupted in the city of Jabalpur in the state of Madhya Pradesh. This riot was linked to the emergence of a small class of successful Muslim entrepreneurs who created a new economic rivalry between Hindu and Muslim communities.
Fisher, Margaret W.; Rose, Leo E.; Huttenback, Robert A. (1963), Himalayan Battleground: Sino-Indian Rivalry in Ladakh, Praeger; Hudson, G. F. (October–December 1961). "Reviewed Work: Report of the Officials of the Governments of India and the People's Republic of China on the Boundary Question by Ministry of External Affairs, Government of ...
The Indian federal government has passed an order that scraps the Information and Broadcasting ministry’s Film Certification Appellate Tribunal (FCAT), the first avenue of appeal if a filmmaker ...
1961 Indian novels (4 P) S. 1961 in Indian sport (3 C, 1 P) Pages in category "1961 in India" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.
Censorship is often used to impose moral values on society, as in the censorship of material considered obscene. English novelist E. M. Forster was a staunch opponent of censoring material on the grounds that it was obscene or immoral, raising the issue of moral subjectivity and the constant changing of moral values.