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“Good name in man and woman, dear my lord,” wrote Shakespeare, “Is the immediate jewel of their souls; Who steals my purse steals trash; ’tis something, nothing;... But he that filches from me my good name... makes me poor indeed.” The Bhagavad Gita expressed the idea even more emphatically when it said, “For a man of honour defamation is worse than death.” As it is thus considered a great evil, provision for reasonable legislative abridgement of the right of freedom of speech and expression in relation to defamation is made in Article 19(2) of the Indian Constitution.
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Minattur, J. (1961). Defamation. In: Freedom of the Press in India. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-9103-6_7
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