India's First Dictatorship - Christophe Jaffrelot, Pratinav Anil

India's First Dictatorship

The Emergency, 1975–1977
Buch | Hardcover
600 Seiten
2020
C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-78738-402-6 (ISBN)
62,35 inkl. MwSt
In June 1975 Prime Minister Indira Gandhi imposed a state of emergency, resulting in a 21-month suspension of democracy. Jaffrelot and Anil explore this black page in India's history, a constitutional dictatorship of unequal impact, with South India largely spared thanks to the resilience of Indian federalism.

India's First Dictatorship focuses on Mrs Gandhi and her son, Sanjay, who was largely responsible for the mass sterilisation programmes and deportation of urban slum-dwellers. However, it equally exposes the facilitation of authoritarian rule by Congressmen, Communists, trade unions, businessmen and the urban middle class, as well as the complacency of the judiciary and media. While opposition leaders eventually closed ranks in jail, many of them—especially in the RSS—tried to collaborate with the new regime. Those who resisted the Emergency, in the media or on the streets, were few in number.

This episode was an acid test for India's political culture. While a tiny minority of citizens fought for democracy during the Emergency, in large numbers the people bowed to the strong woman in power, even worshipped her. Equally importantly, Hindu nationalists were endowed with a new legitimacy. Yet, the Emergency was neither a parenthesis, nor so much a turning point but a concentrate of a style of rule that is very much alive today.

Christophe Jaffrelot is Research Director at CNRS, Sciences Po and Professor of Indian Politics and Sociology at the King’s India Institute. Hurst has published nine of his books, most recently the co-edited Majoritarian State. Pratinav Anil, a Clarendon scholar, is a DPhil candidate at St John’s College, University of Oxford.

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 136 x 216 mm
Themenwelt Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Zeitgeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften
ISBN-10 1-78738-402-0 / 1787384020
ISBN-13 978-1-78738-402-6 / 9781787384026
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