01625nam a2200193Ia 450000500170000000800410001702000180005808200200007610000190009624500790011526000450019430000110023952009770025065000280122765000120125594200080126799900170127595201390129220261001101548.0260603s9999||||xx |||||||||||||| ||und||  a9780143029670  223a954.051 CHA  aChandra, Bipan 0aIn The Name of Democracyb: JP movement and the emergencyc/ Bipan Chandra  aNew Delhib: Penguin Books Indiac, 2003  a384 p.  aAn unusual and insightful perspective of Indian democracy's dark hour
'When Jayaprakash Narayan, the leader of the JP movement in north India, pressed for the resignation of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, it prompted her to impose internal Emergency. In this fascinating account, Bipan Chandra traces the events that led up to this moment and makes some startling revelations. He finds that there was a real danger of the JP movement turning fascist, given the fuzzy ideology of Total Revolution, its confused leadership and dependence on the RSS for its organization. At the same time, despite the authoritarianism inherent in the Emergency, particularly with the rising power of Sanjay Gandhi and his Youth Congress brigade, Indira Gandhi did end it and call for elections.
Finely argued, incisive and original, this book offers significant insight into those turbulent years and joins the ever-relevant debate on the acceptable limits of popular protest in a democracy .  aPolitics and Government  aHistory  cRBK  c68625d68625  00102ddc4071aSNULbSNULd2026-06-03l0o954.051 CHApG7920r2026-06-03 15:18:00w2026-06-03yRBKzProf. Romila Thapar's Collection