Emergency Chronicles: Indira Gandhi and Democracy's Turning Point

by Gyan Prakash

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691186723
• ISBN13: 9780691186726
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 456 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.9" x 8.6"