Cartographers beware: India warns of $15 million fine for maps it doesn’t like - The Washington Post
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C’est une histoire sans fin qui commence à être assez bien documenté :) (i.e. on en parle de plus en plus, donc moi, j’archive).
Let’s start with a basic fact: India claims much more land than it controls.
Thus, any map of India and its neighbors makes an inherently political statement based on how it depicts their borders. The issue is particularly thorny because the border disputes are with India’s great rivals: Pakistan and China.
On Thursday, a draft law reflecting India’s sensitivity over maps was uploaded by the government online before being swiftly removed for reasons unknown. The draft law would define how India’s international borders are drawn once and for all, and punish offenders with up to seven years in jail or fines ranging from $150,000 to $15 million. It would also require all individuals and companies producing maps in India, and all Indian citizens doing so globally, to procure a license from the government.
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Kashmir Missing From India’s Map; Facebook CEO, Chinese Footage Spark Fresh Controversy
The state of Jammu and Kashmir has gone missing from the map of India. Although, this wouldn’t be a first. There have been repeated map controversies over Kashmir between India and Pakistan.
This time, the troublemaker is CEO of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg and latest China’s CCTV channel footage, that may spark a fresh controversy between India and Pakistan.
Zuckerberg shared a post about the Facebook’s internet.org that showed India’s map without Kashmir.
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Map of Kashmir lands Economist in censor trouble | delhi | Hindustan Times
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The Economist magazine has accused India of hostile censorship after officials prevented the distribution of the latest edition, because of a map showing the disputed borders of Kashmir.
Customs officers ordered that 28,000 copies of the news weekly should have stickers manually placed over a diagram showing how control of Kashmir, a tiny Himalayan region, is split between India, Pakistan and China.
Both India and Pakistan claim the whole of the Himalayan region and have gone to war twice over its control since 1947.