Has the Indian Government Been Censoring Controversial Research Topics?
U.S. Academics Who Experienced Delays Believe It May Amount to Censorship May 30, 2007 By DAN LEVIN Over the past two years, scores of American Fulbright scholars seeking to do research in India have been thwarted in their efforts by long delays and rejections. Both Indian and American academics have blamed the Indian government for the problems, claiming the delays and rejections of controversial topics, including Islam and women’s rights, amount to censorship. And despite diplomatic efforts to clear the backlog, some worry that the problems will continue. “Everyone knows that certain topics are blacklisted,” Jeff Redding, a research fellow at Yale Law School told ABC News. Redding, a Fulbright scholar, had to return to the United States to find work while waiting to hear if his Fulbright research proposal on Islamic law was accepted. Seven months later, he learned in an e-mail that his topic had been rejected. No explanation was provided. Redding said he reapplied with a new topic, o
