Indian authorities in the restive Himalayan region of Kashmir have ordered all educational institutions to review books for “objectionable content” and have arrested three publishers for allegedly glorifying separatist leaders.
The Directorate of School Education has ordered schools, colleges, universities, and tutoring centres in the federally administered territory to review all published material – books, research papers and academic theses – and report content that could be deemed to violate “religious sentiments, laws, educational values and established norms".
