Law of Obscenity in India, USA and UK

This is a pioneering work which explores the comparative dimensions of 'law of obscenity in USA, UK and India' and presents a detailed historical view of the law of obscenity in Ancient India, Greece and England. It analyses the role of the judiciary as an activist in this area and highlights the impact of American and British jurisprudence on the Indian scene through 'case-law-method'. The book further explores the devices aimed at suppressing the instinct of pandering to obscenity vis-a-vis the Indian and Western contemporary standards. It examines the existing loopholes in the legal framework of obscenity and suggests several correctives. This work, it is hoped, will prove highly useful not only to research scholars but to lawyers, judges and social reformers.

Inder S. Rana (b. 1959) is currently serving as UGC Research Fellow for Doctoral Studies in Law in the discipline of Criminology in the H.P. University, Shimla. He graduated with Honours in English Literature in 1979 and did his B.L. and LL.B. from the H.P. University obtaining First-Class-First positions  in both the examinations. He is also a topper of the LL.M. degree examination of the H.P. University. He is one of the two candidates who were declared selected for the award of UGC Research Fellowship for higher-research in law on the basis of an All India Competitive examination in June 1986. An active researcher, he has been conducting research in the field of Criminology for the last three years.