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Author: Gyan Prakash ,
Penguin Random House India
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Imprint: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691186726
ISBN 10: 0691186723
Pages: 456
Publication Date: 26 March 2019
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Language: English
Reviews
Gyan Prakash's lucid and astute account of India's postcolonial history and the Emergency combines readability and consummate research with a powerful central argument about the vicissitudes of political freedom devoid of social revolution. It is the essential read for anyone who wants to understand democracy's relationship with popular politics in the world today. --Zoya Hasan, professor emerita, Jawaharlal Nehru University With vivid portrayals of lesser known characters and some striking archival photographs, Gyan Prakash has given us a thoughtful and superbly readable account of one of Indian democracy's darkest episodes. --Partha Chatterjee, Columbia University A brilliant, gripping study of one of democratic India's darkest moments--the Emergency of 1975-77--that reveals the deepest lineaments of the Indian state. Bearing an important lesson for beleaguered democracies across the world today, Gyan Prakash brings the Indian experience into the global debate about democracy. --Sunil Khilnani, King's College London Prakash has written an indispensable political and narrative history of one of the most significant phases of India's democracy. Emergency Chronicles is an exceptional book. --Shruti Kapila, University of Cambridge In this lively and well-written book, Prakash makes the persuasive and important argument that the possibilities of suspending democracy are embedded in the legal and political frameworks of the Indian state, and that an awareness of this fact is essential to protecting and defending this democracy into the present day. --Yasmin Khan, author of India at War: The Subcontinent and the Second World War
In this lively and well-written book, Prakash makes the persuasive and important argument that the possibilities of suspending democracy are embedded in the legal and political frameworks of the Indian state, and that an awareness of this fact is essential to protecting and defending this democracy into the present day. -Yasmin Khan, author of India at War: The Subcontinent and the Second World War
Author Information
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.
