The Silent Coup
A History of India's Deep State
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Narrated by:
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Siddhanta Pinto
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Written by:
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Josy Joseph
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The result of more than two decades of reporting on insurgencies, terrorism and the security establishment, The Silent Coup is an urgent look at how India’s democracy has been subverted under the veneer of a vibrant constitutional government.
India is justly proud of a parliamentary democracy that has never been threatened by a military coup. No mean feat in a neighbourhood where coups are common and notions of constitutionality shaky. However, for decades now, India’s democratic standing has been steadily declining. An international analysis recently rated the country as only ‘partly free’, while another deemed it an ‘electoral autocracy’.
Josy Joseph investigates this decline and comes away with a key insight: that the process of confronting militancy has warped the system. As insurgencies erupted across India and grew increasingly more sophisticated in the 1980s and ’90s, the security establishment struggled to keep up. Increasingly overwhelmed, the police forces, intelligence agencies, federal investigation agencies, tax departments and the like came up with ingenious—at times sinister—solutions: from faking and framing evidence to staging massive terror attacks and even creating terrorist organisations. Over time, militancy became a flourishing, multi-faceted business enterprise.
From the Kashmiri militancy to the Sri Lankan civil war, from the attack on Mumbai to the long-term unrest in the Northeast, India’s ‘war on terror’ has made its security institutions more nationalistic and chauvinistic and, inevitably, more corrupt. Most dangerously, there is a near-complete capture of the security apparatus, whether investigative agencies, police or intelligence, by the political executive—serving as stormtroopers with no accountability, rather than as defenders of the Constitution.
The result of more than two decades of reporting on insurgencies, terrorism and the security establishment, The Silent Coup is a wake-up call to the nation. You do not need a military coup to subvert democracy, Joseph says—in India, it has already been subverted.
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- Vikas
- 10-11-24
Author has put in-depth analysis of each and every case in this book. Good read.
I like everything in this book. Right from start it grips your imagination about the current system.
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- Raghav
- 10-09-23
Superb book
First of all, narration is flawless.
There is no point in the book that feels like the author has stretched the write up. Gripping tale of Indian security forces and their botch ups. It’s impartial to the political process
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- Anonymous User
- 19-02-24
Biased or Not?
Writing of style is really good, he used his all experience in writing this book. if you listen carefully from the beginning he is trying to sell on narative also saying he is unbiased but you will catch it on the way.
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- Pragya Singhal
- 06-09-23
An individual story to judge the system
The book was trying to show how a system (police, military etc) gives into the pressure from the powerful (politicians) and gets hijacked from delivering its true objectives. That's where the coup bit comes up. however the author picked up stories which favoured one religion over another, which is now such an exhausting narrative that the whole left wing media has picked up. to read the same narrative so many times without any different insights is not enjoyable anymore. I wish they kept more objectivity in narration and less prejudice against the ruling party. Systems across the world are corrupt and India hasn't gone through any symptoms which someone else hasn't experienced. I would prefer a book which talks of success stories more than just being a crib fest on the poor state of affairs.
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