Censorship in South Asia: Cultural Regulation from Sedition to Seduction

Acknowledgments

vii Acknowledgments The origins of this volume are shrouded in the mists of the distant past— November 2002, to be precise, when some of the contributors to the present volume assembled at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association in New Orleans to participate in a panel on censorship in South Asia. That so much time has passed between those initial conversations and the publication of this book makes the editors all the more grateful for the work, patience, and trust that the contributors and the splendid people at Indiana University Press—especially Rebecca Tolen—have put into the project. Acknowledgment is also overdue to Nayanika Mookherjee and Monika Mehta for their input during earlier stages of this project. Raminder Kaur would like to thank the British Academy for its Small Research Grant (SG-35512) to begin research on public perceptions and representations of nuclear issues in 2003,and the Economic and Social Research Council for its grant (RES-000-23-1312) to develop the work and bring it to fruition. William Mazzarella is indebted to the Law and Society Program of the National Science Foundation, whose generous support allowed him to begin investigating issues of censorship. Censorship in South Asia ...