South Asian Studies Council: “50 Years of the Indian Emergency: Lessons for Democracy”

The South Asian Studies Council presents a Roundtable.

“50 Years of the Indian Emergency: Lessons for Democracy.”

This volume marks the fiftieth anniversary of one of the defining moments of Indian history. It examines the Emergency and its afermath from diverse perspectives – political, historical, legal, economic, philosophical, experiential and cultural, among others.

Bringing together leading scholars and writers, it explores how the Emergency transformed Indian polity, and shaped law enforcement and penal practices, the media, student movements, judicial responses,  subaltern politics and  literary expression, and examines why analysis of the Emergency is still relevant to  political discourse in India today.