Book Talk: Emergency Chronicles: Indira Gandhi and Democracy’s Turning Point

Gyan Prakash, author and Professor of History at Princeton University, discusses Emergency Chronicles: Indira Gandhi and Democracy’s Turning Point, his comprehensive account of India in the mid-1970s after Indira Gandhi declared a state of emergency. The book details the suspension of constitutional rights, the coercion and intimidation of Gandhi’s political rivals, and the harrowing months that followed.