%0 Journal Article
%T ¡®Alarmist stories and defeatist views¡¯: Censorship and morale in India during the Second World War
%A Devika Sethi
%J War in History
%@ 1477-0385
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/0968344517702182
%X This article identifies three loci of the British colonial state¡¯s anxiety about communication of news and views in India during the Second World War: its own officials (and their families); the press (both English language and vernacular); and the Indian public. It explores war-time dilemmas of the state with regard to censorship of both news and rumour, and it discusses the central paradox of censorship in colonial India during war-time
%K Censorship
%K morale
%K India
%K Second World War
%K rumour
%K public opinion
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0968344517702182