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Laddar... Emergency Chronicles : Indira Gandhi and Democracy's Turning Point (utgåvan 2018)av Gyan Prakash (Författare)
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. An accomplished account of the Total Revolution movement initiated by Jayaprakash Narayan in the 1970s and the Emergency imposed by Indira Gandhi and Sanjay Gandhi. The author makes a significant point that this cannot be treated as an isolated moment in an otherwise glorious history of Indian democracy, as there were strands of such authoritarianism even before the collision of these forces; and (quoting Ambedkar), blind devotion may be fine in religion, but in politics is "a sure road to degradation and eventual dictatorship". In the words of a great poet, ask not for whom the bells toll. ( ) inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
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 democracy's troubled relationship with popular politics. Drawing on archival records, private papers and letters, published sources, film and literary materials, and interviews with victims and perpetrators, Prakash traces the Emergency's origins to the moment of India's independence in 1947, revealing how the unfulfilled promise of democratic transformation upset the fine balance between state power and civil rights. He vividly depicts the unfolding of a political crisis that culminated in widespread popular unrest, which Gandhi sought to crush by paradoxically using the law to suspend lawful rights. Her failure to preserve the existing political order had lasting and unforeseen repercussions, opening the door for caste politics and Hindu nationalism. Placing the Emergency within the broader global history of democracy, this gripping book offers invaluable lessons for us today as the world once again confronts the dangers of rising authoritarianism and populist nationalism. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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