The Nation and its Discontents: Depicting Dissent during the Emergency

The article examines the poetics of documenting dissent during the Emergency under Mrs. Indira Gandhi through two specific archives. The declaration of Emergency in a democracy attempts to cut down the very scale of political citizenship to which dissenting bodies seem to aspire. Historians of the E...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Supurna Dasgupta
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Boibhashik 2016-02-01
Series:Sanglap: Journal of Literary and Cultural Inquiry
Online Access:http://sanglap-journal.in/index.php/sanglap/article/view/119