War over Words: Censorship in India, 1930–1960.

Sethi further asserts that "there has been no systematic or detailed attempt to compare censorship policies and practices across these periods" (p. 5). As Ian Stephens, editor of the major English-language daily, the I Statesman i , noted, apart from one or two of the largest papers, "almost every other paper in the country was in difficulties" (p. 162). According to Devika Sethi, I War over Words i "locates itself within the traditional model of censorship studies, and its focus is on direct forms of institutionalized and regulatory censorship. [Extracted from the article]