{"id":73295,"date":"2025-08-07T20:22:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T11:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/aug\/07\/india-bans-books-jammu-kashmir-arundhati-roy"},"modified":"2025-08-07T20:22:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T11:22:10","slug":"arundhati-roy-works-among-dozens-of-books-banned-in-indian-administered-kashmir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=73295","title":{"rendered":"Arundhati Roy works among dozens of books banned in Indian-administered Kashmir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Censorship order accuses books of promoting \u2018false narrative and secessionism\u2019 in disputed territory<\/p>\n<p>The government in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir has banned 25 books, including works by the Booker-prize winning author <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/arundhatiroy\">Arundhati Roy<\/a>, accusing them of promoting a \u201cfalse narrative and secessionism\u201d in the disputed territory.<\/p>\n<p>The censorship order was issued by Manoj Sinha, the lieutenant governor of Jammu and Kashmir, who was appointed by the ruling Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) under the prime minister, Narendra Modi. Sinha was previously a minister in Modi\u2019s BJP government.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/aug\/07\/india-bans-books-jammu-kashmir-arundhati-roy\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Censorship order accuses books of promoting \u2018false narrative and secessionism\u2019 in disputed territoryThe government in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir has banned 25 books, including works by the Booker-prize winning author Arundhati Roy, accusing &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2186,511,458,71,457,62,432,433,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arundhati-roy","category-books","category-censorship","category-culture","category-freedom-of-speech","category-india","category-kashmir","category-narendra-modi","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73295"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73296,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73295\/revisions\/73296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}