As the order of J&K's Home department on ban of some books gets stringent, the Jammu and Kashmir Police on Wednesday carried ...

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India’s Jammu and Kashmir has banned 25 books for allegedly ‘promoting secessionism and a false narrative,’ about the alleged human rights atrocities committed in the disputed region. Manoj Sinha, the ...

As the J&K Home Department bans 25 books by intellectuals by classifying them as ‘seditious’, we must understand that it is not just the ink, but the imagination, the inquiry, and the unforgetting ...

G Manoj Sinha, J&K home dept through a notification dated 5 August imposed blanket ban on 25 books it said were propagating ...

AG Noorani’s ‘The Kashmir Dispute 1947–2012’; political scientist Sumantra Bose’s ‘Kashmir at the Crossroads’ and ‘Contested Lands’ are among the banned books ...

Indian officials say the books promote violence, secessionism. But critics say the move is aimed at silencing scholars.

Chief minister Omar Abdullah has distanced himself from the book ban in Jammu and Kashmir, which rights watchdog Amnesty ...

J&K’s governing National Conference (NC) on Friday decried banning books as “unfortunate and deeply ill-conceived”, days ...

Jammu and Kashmir authorities have banned and forfeited 25 books, accusing them of spreading false narratives, secessionism, ...

Authorities threaten people with prison time for selling or owning works by authors like Booker winner Arundhati Roy and ...

On August 6, 2025, the Home Department of Jammu and Kashmir issued an extraordinary order banning 25 books under the ...