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Brewing resistance : Indian Coffee House and the emergency in postcolonial India / Kristin Victoria Magistrelli Plys

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2020

1 online resource (x, 350 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Englisch

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978-1-108-78111-4 (ebook); 978-1-108-49052-8 (hardback)

978-1-108-49052-8 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

OCoLC: 1164637185     

Elektronische Ressource: Zugang über Resolving-System (Lizenzangabe: Lizenzpflichtig)

Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.1017/9781108781114

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LOC-SH: Indian Coffee House -- Political activity -- History -- 20th century ; Protest movements -- History -- 20th century -- India ; Political participation -- History -- 20th century -- India ; Democracy -- History -- 20th century -- India ; India -- Politics and government -- 1975-1977

Indian Coffee House ; Political activity ; History ; 20th century ; Protest movements ; India ; History ; 20th century ; Political participation ; India ; History ; 20th century ; Democracy ; India ; History ; 20th century ; India ; Politics and government ; 1975-1977

In 1947, decolonization promised a better life for India's peasants, workers, students, Dalits, and religious minorities. By the 1970s, however, this promise had not yet been realized. Various groups fought for the social justice but in response, Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi suspended the constitution, and with it, civil liberties. The hope of decolonization that had turned to disillusion in the postcolonial period quickly descended into a nightmare. In this book, Kristin Plys recounts the little known story of the movement against the Emergency as seen through New Delhi's Indian Coffee House based on newly uncovered evidence and oral histories with the men who led the movement against the Emergency.