Christophe Jaffrelot is Avantha Chair and Professor of Indian Politics and Sociology at the King’s India Institute, King’s College London. Pratinav Anil is a Lecturer in History at St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford, whose writings have appeared in The Times, The Guardian, The Spectator and History Today.

‘The best and most comprehensive book on the Emergency.’

• List of Tables Abbreviations Glossary Preface Introduction Part I The Varieties of Authoritarianism: What Kind of Regime Was the Emergency? 1. A Constitutional Dictatorship 2. The Political Economy of the Emergency: Looking for an Ideology 3. Subverting Institutions: Remnants of Democracy 4. An Era of Sultans: Sanjay's Emergency 5. The Uneven Geography of Tyranny Conclusion to Part I Part II Causes and Beyond: What Made the Emergency "Necessary" and Possible 6. Immediate Causes: The JP Movement and the Allahabad Judgment in Perspective 7. Mrs Gandhi's Personalisation of Power, 1966-1975 8. An Incongruous Coalition Conclusion to Part 2 Part III Resistance and End Game 9. An Uneven Resistance 10. Lifting the Emergency: What Return to Democracy? Conclusion: Interpreting the Emergency Glossary List of Acronyms Bibliography Index

Christophe Jaffrelot is Avantha Chair and Professor of Indian Politics and Sociology at the King’s India Institute, King’s College London. Pratinav Anil is a Lecturer in History at St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford, whose writings have appeared in The Times, The Guardian, The Spectator and History Today.

‘The best and most comprehensive book on the Emergency.’

• List of Tables Abbreviations Glossary Preface Introduction Part I The Varieties of Authoritarianism: What Kind of Regime Was the Emergency? 1. A Constitutional Dictatorship 2. The Political Economy of the Emergency: Looking for an Ideology 3. Subverting Institutions: Remnants of Democracy 4. An Era of Sultans: Sanjay's Emergency 5. The Uneven Geography of Tyranny Conclusion to Part I Part II Causes and Beyond: What Made the Emergency "Necessary" and Possible 6. Immediate Causes: The JP Movement and the Allahabad Judgment in Perspective 7. Mrs Gandhi's Personalisation of Power, 1966-1975 8. An Incongruous Coalition Conclusion to Part 2 Part III Resistance and End Game 9. An Uneven Resistance 10. Lifting the Emergency: What Return to Democracy? Conclusion: Interpreting the Emergency Glossary List of Acronyms Bibliography Index

Christophe Jaffrelot is Avantha Chair and Professor of Indian Politics and Sociology at the King’s India Institute, King’s College London. Pratinav Anil is a Lecturer in History at St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford, whose writings have appeared in The Times, The Guardian, The Spectator and History Today.

‘The best and most comprehensive book on the Emergency.’

• List of Tables Abbreviations Glossary Preface Introduction Part I The Varieties of Authoritarianism: What Kind of Regime Was the Emergency? 1. A Constitutional Dictatorship 2. The Political Economy of the Emergency: Looking for an Ideology 3. Subverting Institutions: Remnants of Democracy 4. An Era of Sultans: Sanjay's Emergency 5. The Uneven Geography of Tyranny Conclusion to Part I Part II Causes and Beyond: What Made the Emergency "Necessary" and Possible 6. Immediate Causes: The JP Movement and the Allahabad Judgment in Perspective 7. Mrs Gandhi's Personalisation of Power, 1966-1975 8. An Incongruous Coalition Conclusion to Part 2 Part III Resistance and End Game 9. An Uneven Resistance 10. Lifting the Emergency: What Return to Democracy? Conclusion: Interpreting the Emergency Glossary List of Acronyms Bibliography Index