Gemma Scott

Gender, Women and the Indian Emergency, 1975-1977 (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

India's State of Emergency (1975-1977) is one of the most controversial moments in the country's history since independence. During this infamous 21-month period, Indira Gandhi's government suspended constitutional rights, postponed elections, censored the press and arrested opposition, as well as instituting aggressive slum clearance and coercive sterilisation campaigns. Over the last 20 years, this period has received increasing scholarly attention. But the role that women played in shaping Emergency politics, their experiences of its repressive measures, and their roles in resisting them have not been considered in this scholarship.

Gender, Women and the Indian Emergency, 1975-1977 addresses this gap, as the first major study of the role of women and gender in shaping these events. Drawing on doctoral research and new data, this book documents the many ways in which women and gender were integral to the regime's articulation and implementation. It reveals new insights into women's experiences of Emergency measures and examines their participation in anti-Emergency activism, bringing previously untold histories to light. In doing so, it fundamentally re-shapes our understandings of this period.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Mai 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040356692
• Artikelnr.: 73656365

Autorenporträt

Gemma Scott completed her AHRC-funded PhD research on the Indian Emergency at Keele University in 2017. She has held fellowships at the Library of Congress (DC) and Institute for Historical Research, London. Her research interests span postcolonial Indian history and women's activism, and she currently works in International Research Development at Keele University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1
'When a child suffers the mother suffers too': the Emergency's gendered
narratives
Chapter 2
'All the minorities are with us': Representing support for the Emergency
Chapter 3
'My wife had to get sterilised': the gendered politics of population
control under the Emergency
Chapter 4
'We fought back, we retained our spaces': Women resisting the Emergency
Chapter 5
'Here in the jail it is a lot of fun': Political prisoners in Maharashtra
Conclusion
Appendix
Bibliography