1. For key literature on the history of film censorship in India, see Vasudev, A. (1976) Liberty and License in the Indian Cinema. New Delhi: Vikas
2. Mehta, M. (2006) What Is Behind Film Censorship? The Khalnayak Debates, pp. 170–187 in Bose, B. (ed) Gender & Censorship. New Delhi: Women Unlimited
3. Mehta M. (2001) Selections: Cutting, Classifying and Certifying in Bombay Cinema, unpublished thesis. Minnesota: The University of Minnesota. For censorship of cinema in the British colonial period
4. see Arora, P. (1995) “Imperilling the Prestige of the White Woman”: Colonial Anxiety and Film Censorship in British India, pp. 36–50 in Visual Anthropology Review, 105/11 (2)
5. Chowdhry, P. (2000) Colonial India and the Making of Empire Cinema: Image, Ideology, and Identity. Manchester: Manchester University Press