Emergency in Perspective: Reprieve and ChallengeStudy of the political developments in India that led to the imposition of internal emergency in June 1975 and the change of the ruling party in March 1977. |
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TWO Mixed Bag of Imperial Legacy | 5 |
THREE The Drift | 17 |
FOUR The Clamp Down | 43 |
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