In the Larger Personal interest : An Investigation in to India Politics Since 1947. (Record no. 10847)

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Classification number 320 Mur.
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Personal name Murthi, V.K.
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Title In the Larger Personal interest : An Investigation in to India Politics Since 1947.
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Place of publication, distribution, etc. Daryaganj
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Date of publication, distribution, etc. 1947
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Extent 206 p.
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Summary, etc. Mrs Indira Gandhi imposed Emergency in India on 26th June<br/>1975, and edged out the country away from the orbit of democracy.<br/>The nation slid into the clutches of authoritarian rule. Human<br/>rights were trampled upon. The judiciary was browbeaten, tamed<br/>and brought to its knees. The Press lay spread-eagled, forced to toe<br/>the line defined by the rulers, muffled and silenced, allowed only to<br/>sing songs of praise of the regime. The Constitution was trimmed<br/>and shorn of many of its democratic regulations, rewritten by<br/>hurriedly sponsored amendments to suit the demands of authori-<br/>tarianism that went under the name of democracy. Covertly and<br/>overtly, democracy was undermined, bound and fettered and<br/>chained, forced to be the mask for dictatorship.<br/>The blame, therefore, for the 19 months of Emergency and<br/>its excesses has been placed on Mrs Indira Gandhi and her close<br/>a Ssociates. But, this is too simplisitic a view.<br/>The Emergency which pushed the nation into the mire of<br/>terror was not something that came out of nowhere. It was the<br/>natural culmination of the gradual erosion of human values and<br/>democratic virtues. The nation's path, from the day we began<br/>our tryst with destiny, had followed devious routes. It was paved<br/>with excessive zeal for power.<br/>It<br/>was strengthened by excep-<br/>tional zest for amassing fortunes by fair means and foul. It was<br/>bound by extreme indifference to the needs of the masses.<br/>marked by a complete negation of the concept of nationalism.<br/>The Emergency was the outward expression of the rot that<br/>had set in in the national body politic. It was a tragedy whose<br/>scenario was prepared and developed over many years since 1947.<br/>We lulled ourselves with the belief that all was well with<br/>the nation. We had rolled up in cocoons, spun out of a false<br/>sense of security. We tagged blinkers on to our<br/>ourselves with the chains forged out of our mistakes. We hope-<br/>eyes. We bound lessly entangled ourselves with the threads of sycophancy, nepotism,<br/>economic imbalances, political chicanery and broken promises.<br/>It was
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Political Science .
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