Emergency Chronicles - Indira Gandhi and Democracy's Turning Point [AZW3 - MOBI]

Emergency Chronicles: Indira Gandhi and Democracy's Turning Point [AZW3/MOBI]



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English | 2019 | ISBN: 0691186723, 069121736X | 456 pages | AZW3 / MOBI | 5.3 MB

The gripping story of an explosive turning point in the history of modern India

On the night of June 25, 1975, Indira Gandhi declared a state of emergency in India, suspending constitutional rights and rounding up her political opponents in midnight raids across the country. In the twenty-one harrowing months that followed, her regime unleashed a brutal campaign of coercion and intimidation, arresting and torturing people by the tens of thousands, razing slums, and imposing compulsory sterilization on the poor. Emergency Chronicles provides the first comprehensive account of this understudied episode in India’s modern history. Gyan Prakash strips away the comfortable myth that the Emergency was an isolated event brought on solely by Gandhi’s desire to cling to power, arguing that it was as much the product of Indian cracy’s troubled relationship with popular politics.