As Kashmir varsities cull ‘objectionable’ books, fear of losing academic rigour grows among scholars
Political leaders, scholars and varsity professors object to the move citing self-censorship and interference of the state; order comes days after a book, that profiled Kashmiri separatist leaders, was circulated in J&K schools under the national Samagra Shiksha scheme.
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