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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Ella Creamer

Hundreds of books seized from stores in Kashmir as Indian police crack down on dissent

A man browses books at a bookshop in Srinagar.
A man browses books at a bookshop in Srinagar. Photograph: Firdous Nazir/NurPhoto/REX/Shutterstock

Police in Kashmir have raided dozens of bookstores and seized more than 650 books as part of crackdowns on dissent in the Indian-administered region.

Most of the titles were written by Abul A’la Maududi, a prominent 20th-century Islamic scholar who founded Jamaat-e-Islami, an Islamic organisation banned in Kashmir.

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