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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.
Book censorship in India has existed at least since the British period, and several books remain banned by the central and state governments.. Books criticizing major religions of India, as well as books supposedly portraying national figures including Gandhi and Nehru in a bad light continue to remain banned.
The Heart of India: Alexander Campbell This book cannot be imported into India. [18] Alexander Campbell was Time magazine's New Delhi correspondent. The book is a fictionalized and humorous account of Indian bureaucracy and economic policies. [19] 1960 The Lotus and the Robot: Arthur Koestler: This book contains the author's experiences in ...
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Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Pages in category "Censorship in India" The following 29 pages are in this category, out of 29 ...
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 ...
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]
India's overall Internet Freedom Status is "Partly Free", unchanged from 2009. India has a score of 39 on a scale from 0 (most free) to 100 (least free), which places India 20 out of the 47 countries worldwide that were included in the 2012 report. India ranked 14 out of 37 countries in the 2011 report.