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50 Years of the Indian Emergency Lessons for Democracy

50 Years of the Indian Emergency Lessons for Democracy

$54
Author:Edited by Peter Ronald deSouza and Harsh Sethi
ISBN 13:9789369733408
Binding:Softcover
Language:English
Year:2025
Pages:376pp., 21.6cm
Published On:30th September 2025
Subject:Indian Politics and International Relations

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CONTENTS: Introduction: Revisiting the Emergency-Peter Ronald deSouza and Harsh Sethi, 1. MISA and the Emergency: Laws, Lives and Afterlives-Ujjwal Kumar Singh and Anupama Roy, 2. Aftermath of the Internal Emergency (25 June 1975–21 March 1977): The More Things Change, the More They Remain the Same-R. Sudarshan, 3. Emergency and the Resistance Politics of Law: A Perspective from Andhra Pradesh-Kalpana Kannabiran, 4. The Shah Commission Reports: A Tragic Moment and a Sinister Recurrence-Deepak Sanan, 5. Three Controversial Aspects of the Emergency Raj-Anand Kumar, 6. The Economic Roots of the Emergency-Errol D’Souza, 7. Emergency and the Fabled Foreign Hand: A Factual, Fanciful, or Fabricated Fear?-Varun Sahni, 8. Resistance Journalism during the Emergency-Pamela Philipose, 9. Chronicle of a Repression Foretold: JNU in the Emergency and After – University Restructuring in a Global Context-Ravi Arvind Palat, 10. Internal Disturbances: Poetry and Prophecy 1975–77-Rukmini Bhaya Nair, 11. Many Meanings of Freedom: The Dandawate Prison Letters-Gyan Prakash, 12. Reading [in] the Mulahiza-Mahmood Farooqui, 13. Anushashan Parva: The Dictatorship of the Acharya-Tridip Suhrud, 14. Debating the Idea of Freedom (In the Context of 25 June 1975)-Gopal Guru, 15. Why did She Impose It and Why did She Lift It?: Revisiting the Indian Emergency of 1975-Peter Ronald deSouza, Editors and Contributors.