Bilal Baloch on Indira Gandhi, India's Emergency, and the Importance of Ideas in Politics
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The State of Emergency in India 19 75
An anti corruption movement, i would say, most proximately led to the actions that prime minister inderagandi took in 19 75. But there's more to the story, right? Why in deregandi declared a state of emergency in 19 75? This is a topic that has increasingly receive academic attention in recent years because of archives opening up and more research being done on this period. The long and short of it is that she did it to maintain power in the face of political and an economic crisis. Many people thought it was the death of democracy in india.
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