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Emergency Chronicles

Written by: Gyan Prakash
Narrated by: Rajiv Dadia
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 As the world once again confronts an eruption of authoritarianism, Gyan Prakash's Emergency Chronicles takes us back to the moment of India's independence to offer a comprehensive historical account of Indira Gandhi's Emergency of 1975-77. Stripping away the myth that this was a sudden event brought on solely by the Prime Minister's desire to cling to power, it argues that the Emergency was as much Indira's doing as it was the product of Indian democracy's troubled relationship with popular politics, and a turning point in its history.

Prakash delves into the chronicles of the preceding years to reveal how the fine balance between state power and civil rights was upset by the unfulfilled promise of democratic transformation. He explains how growing popular unrest disturbed Indira's regime, prompting her to take recourse to the law to suspend lawful rights, wounding the political system further and opening the door for caste politics and Hindu nationalism. 20th Century Americas Civil Rights & Liberties Freedom & Security Modern Politics & Government United States World
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I have to admit that I am no expert in history and whatever I know of the dark period of democracy in India is mostly from literary works. But this has been an excellent starting point to know more about Indira Gandhi's rule and how a single leader with immense power can be the end of democracy. Highly recommended if you are worried about the current state of our country.

Thoroughly researched

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very good narrative brought out the past plans of beautiifying delhi also showing the history of maruti the changes brought about by the emergency showing how difficult it is to run acountry so diverse as India exposed the power lust of polititions and suffering of innocent people brings out the strong personality of Indira and her popularity revealed how different she was from nehru in the end she paid with her life for her mistakes

very interesting and informative unravling the roo

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Must read book. Highly recommended to you and everyone at home. Such a major project

Top. Book

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The book is good. But, a little more insight into reaction of the-then establishment would have made it better. “The Judgement” by Kuldip Nayyar did a better analysis in this count.
But, as a whole, Recommend for listeners.

Overall, a good book

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Eager to finish it, Loved it, Documented various aspects lead to authoritarian regimes; Narration is quite impressive.

Holistic account of authoritarian regime

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