Offend, Shock, or Disturb
Free Speech under the Indian Constitution
Price: 750.00 INR
ISBN:
9780199460878
Publication date:
14/12/2015
Hardback
392 pages
Price: 750.00 INR
ISBN:
9780199460878
Publication date:
14/12/2015
Hardback
392 pages
Rights: World Rights
Description
Offend, Shock, or Disturb is a comprehensive examination of free speech under the Indian Constitution. It explores Indian free speech jurisprudence from a doctrinal, comparative, and philosophical perspective.
Taking as its point of departure the constitutional guarantee of the freedom of speech and expression—Articles 19(1)(a) and 19(2) of the Constitution of India—the book discusses, clause by clause, the development of law from colonial times to present-day controversies.
Issues relating to public order, sedition, obscenity and pornography, hate speech, film and online censorship, privacy and defamation, the contempt of court, the nature of speech and the relationship between free speech and economic structure, and the inter-relationships between them have been comprehensively examined.
As free speech campaigns gain intensity by the day, the book presents the myriad understandings and limitations of the free speech law, and suggests possible pathways for the future.
Table of contents
Preface Acknowledgements Table of Cases Note on the Text Introduction Part One: Background 1. Understanding Free Speech 2. Common Concepts Note: The Changing Faces of the Free Speech Clause Part Two: Subversive Speech 3. Public Order 4. Sedition Part Three: Free Speech and Cultural Regulation 5. Obscenity and Pornography 6. Hate Speech 7. Film and Internet Censorship Part Four: Other Restrictions 8. Defamation, Privacy, and Injunctions 9. Contempt of Court Part Five: The ‘Freedom of Speech and Expression’ 10. The Meaning of ‘Speech and Expression’ 11. The Meaning of ‘Freedom’: Free Speech and Economic Structure Part Six: New Horizons 12. Surveillance, Net Neutrality, Shield Laws, and Copyright Conclusion Postscript Bibliography
Description
Offend, Shock, or Disturb is a comprehensive examination of free speech under the Indian Constitution. It explores Indian free speech jurisprudence from a doctrinal, comparative, and philosophical perspective.
Taking as its point of departure the constitutional guarantee of the freedom of speech and expression—Articles 19(1)(a) and 19(2) of the Constitution of India—the book discusses, clause by clause, the development of law from colonial times to present-day controversies.
Issues relating to public order, sedition, obscenity and pornography, hate speech, film and online censorship, privacy and defamation, the contempt of court, the nature of speech and the relationship between free speech and economic structure, and the inter-relationships between them have been comprehensively examined.
As free speech campaigns gain intensity by the day, the book presents the myriad understandings and limitations of the free speech law, and suggests possible pathways for the future.
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Preface Acknowledgements Table of Cases Note on the Text Introduction Part One: Background 1. Understanding Free Speech 2. Common Concepts Note: The Changing Faces of the Free Speech Clause Part Two: Subversive Speech 3. Public Order 4. Sedition Part Three: Free Speech and Cultural Regulation 5. Obscenity and Pornography 6. Hate Speech 7. Film and Internet Censorship Part Four: Other Restrictions 8. Defamation, Privacy, and Injunctions 9. Contempt of Court Part Five: The ‘Freedom of Speech and Expression’ 10. The Meaning of ‘Speech and Expression’ 11. The Meaning of ‘Freedom’: Free Speech and Economic Structure Part Six: New Horizons 12. Surveillance, Net Neutrality, Shield Laws, and Copyright Conclusion Postscript Bibliography
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