Indian Emergency at 50: Fifty Years Later, Lessons for Democracy

The imposition of the Internal Emergency on June 25, 1975, remains one of the most consequential watersheds in India's modern history. Dr. Sajal Basu's definitive new volume, 'Indian Emergency 50 - Jail, Upsurge, Regionalisation, Criminalisation', brings forth clandestine newsletters, prison records, and testimonies from grassroots organizers across Bengal and India.

Rather than viewing the Emergency as a single political event, Dr. Basu examines how institutional decay, regionalization of politics, and criminalization developed over the subsequent decades.

As we mark five decades since those fateful events, this publication stands as a crucial safeguard of collective memory and a reminder of the fragility of constitutional freedoms.