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Book discussion of "Brewing Resistance: Indian Coffee House and the Emergency in Postcolonial India"

Kristin Plys & Ania Loomba discuss the book, ‘Brewing Resistance’, which studies the story of the movement against the Emergency based on newly uncovered evidence & oral histories. About the book - In 1947, decolonization promised a better life for India's peasants, workers, students, Dalits, and religious minorities. By the 1970s, however, this promise had not yet been realized. Various groups fought for the social justice but in response, Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi suspended the constitution, and with it, civil liberties. The hope of decolonization that had turned to disillusion in the postcolonial period quickly descended into a nightmare. In this book, Kristin Plys recounts the little known story of the movement against the Emergency as seen through New Delhi's Indian Coffee House based on newly uncovered evidence and oral histories with the men who led the movement against the Emergency