ArticleTác giả : Britta Ohm (2022)
Departing from the extensive internet shutdown (2019–2021) that the Indian government imposed on the annexed state of Jammu and Kashmir, this essay traces a historical trajectory of Kashmir’s invisibilisation in India’s popular imagination. Focusing film and television serial productions from the 1960s onwards, my argument proceeds from the forming of the cinematic master narrative on Kashmir towards the forcefully aborted TV serial Kashmeer (2003). I contend that in order to understand the large public acceptance both of Kashmir’s annexation and its digital closure, we need to engage a more capacious conceptualisation of censorship that captures the variety of its political influence... 
