Publisher |
HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS INDIA |
Publication Year |
2021 |
ISBN-13 |
9789390351602 |
ISBN-10 |
9789390351602 |
Binding |
Hardcover |
Number of Pages |
536 Pages |
Language |
(English) |
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. Those who resisted the Emergency, in the media or on the streets, were few in number
Christophe Jaffrelot
Laurence Louër is a researcher at Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches Internationales (CERI) in Paris. She is an Arabist and specializes in Middle-Eastern studies.
Christophe Jaffrelot is a senior research fellow at CERI and the author of the critically acclaimed The Pakistan Paradox: Instability and Resilience as well as the editor of Pakistan at the Crossroads: Domestic Dynamics and External Pressures.
Christophe Jaffrelot
HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS INDIA