L'ús a l'Índia de la censura és una manera d'assegurar l'harmonia nacional que sempre ha volgut elidir, en silenci, la gran diversitat de la pròpia societat índia. La censura sempre beneficia l'estatus quo i el cas de l'Índia no és diferent.
India’s use of censorship as a way to ensure national harmony has of course to some extent always had to elide, and silence, the enormous diversity within Indian society itself; censorship always benefits the status quo, and the Indian case has been no different.