Emergency Chronicles: Indira Gandhi and Democracy's Turning Point - Paperback
by Gyan Prakash
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Princeton University PressISBN-13:9780691217369ISBN-10:069121736XUPC:9780691217369Book Category:History, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Asia, Modern, Political IdeologiesBook Topic:South, 20th Century, DemocracySize:8.58 x 5.51 x 1.26 inchesWeight:1.2015Product ID:SC8JDPCRTH
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,...Language:EnglishPublisher:Princeton University PressISBN-13:9780691217369ISBN-10:069121736XUPC:9780691217369Book Category:History, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Asia, Modern, Political IdeologiesBook Topic:South, 20th Century, DemocracySize:8.58 x 5.51 x 1.26 inchesWeight:1.2015Product ID:SC8JDPCRTH
Gyan Prakash is the Dayton-Stockton Professor of History at Princeton University. His many books include Mumbai Fables: A History of an Enchanted City (Princeton), Bonded Histories: Genealogies of Labor Servitude in Colonial India, and Another Reason: Science and the Imagination of Modern India (Princeton). He lives in Princeton, New Jersey.
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