The Central Board of Film Certification Correspondence Files (1992–2002): A Discursive Rhetoric of Moral Panic, "Public" Protest, and Political Pressure

Abstract

This article constructs a chronological narrative based on a decade of epistolary communication involving India's Central Board of Film Certification, the Information & Broadcasting Ministry, the police, right-wing parties, and the citizenry in order to trace a continuum of state and right-wing interventions in the process of censoring 1990s Hindi cinema.