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Sangh Parivar projects itself as the saviour of India’s democracy during the Emergency, but historical records show that many RSS leaders volunteered to support Indira Gandhi’s decision in exchange for release from jail.
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Christopher Jaffrelot tells Sidharth Bhatia that India is experiencing what is known as 'competitive authoritarianism' or 'electoral authoritarianism' today.
NIF Book Prize 2021: Dadabhai Naoroji's Biography By Dinyar Patel 'Naoroji: Pioneer of Indian Nationalism' is winner of Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize 2021
Backstory: 'Population Control' and 'Information Control' Are Part of the Same Package A fortnightly column from The Wire's ombudsperson. Illustration: The Wire gleichschaltung, or the complete ideological packaging of political, social and lived experience. So while, on the one hand, mores of social behaviour, including sterilisation, were forcibly prescribed â by the end of Third Reich in 1945 an estimated 360,000 had been sterilised, among whom were those deemed genetically inferior or regarded as âpolitical enemies of the stateâ â on the other, there was a conc...