Dr. Jaffrelot discussing his book, 'India's First Dictatorship' with the Eastern Report. скачать в хорошем качестве

Dr. Jaffrelot discussing his book, 'India's First Dictatorship' with the Eastern Report.

Hosted by the Eastern Report. Today, we have with us noted historian Dr. Christophe Jaffrelot on our show. Today, we will discuss Dr. Jaffrelot's book 'India's First Dictatorship: The Emergency, 1975-1977.' In June 1975 Prime Minister Indira Gandhi imposed a state of emergency, resulting in a 21-month suspension of democracy across India. Christophe Jaffrelot and Pratinav Anil explore this black page in India's history, a constitutional dictatorship of unequal impact, with South India, largely spared thanks to the resilience of Indian federalism. Christophe Jaffrelot is Research Director at CERI Sciences Po/CNRS and Professor of Indian Politics and Sociology at the King’s India Institute. His most recent book is Majoritarian State. ▬ Contents of this video ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 00:00 - Highlights 00:54 - Intro 02:32 - Book reveal 02:48 - Book motivation 04:58 - Challenges during writing the book 06:51 - Constitutional Dictatorship 8:32 - “Some people talk of revolution. Our government has already begun one.”, Indira Gandhi 13:00 - Subversion of institutions of democracy 16:47 - Sanjay Gandhi's role during emergency 22:21 - Emergency was due to Indira Gandhi's personality? 25:19 - If Lal Bahadur Shastri could have been alive the emergency could not have been taken place! 26:40 - Why emergency was a north Indian phenomenon? 29:12 - JP movement and other catalysts of emergency 33:18 - Supports of emergency: CPI, RPI, Shiv Sena, J R D Tata, KK Birla, Jagmohan, etc. 37:28 - Allahabad High Court verdict and alternatives to avoid emergency 40:07 - Resistance of emergency: why it was uneven? 44:32 - JP movement: was it CIA sponsored? 48:45 - How and why emergency got lifted? 53:40 - What can we draw from India’s first dictatorship? 56:10 - What are the modern-day parallels of the 1975-1977 dictatorship? 1:01:29 - Future and current work of Christophe Jaffrelot: "Modi's India: Hindu Nationalism and the Rise of Ethnic Democracy" 1:03:26 - A closing remark 1:04:02 - End screen