
50 Years of the Indian Emergency Lessons for Democracy
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| 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 |
About the Book
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.
