Yesterday I was discussing some topics of mutual interest with Sanjeev Tanwar, He mentioned this point.
Film censorship in British India existed before the censor certification boards were installed. This earlier censorship was done by local police departments, impossible to find their records. Interestingly, the whole films were banned. They were mostly worried about the damage done to image of British and American woman through foreign films! Of course, in the early days foreign films shown in India were much more in number than the Indian films, because the Indian industry was just starting out.
Here is the first page of the Evans report from 1921.
Now You Know!
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