The Conscience Network

· Penguin Random House Audio · Oplæst af Adwait Karambelkar
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This is a parallel history of resistance to Indira Gandhi’s dictatorial rule between 1975 and 1977, when an internal emergency was proclaimed in India. The events here unfold entirely in the United States of America surrounded by the echoes of emergency action in India. The book has an intimate historiographic style and is narrated through the lives, actions and world views of chosen protagonists, who with perseverance and principle constructed a classic Gandhian movement.The book not only tracks political developments, ideological debates and sociocultural contexts of the time but also records how American pacifists, Quakers, civil rights activists, academics, authors, senators and Congressmen came together in solidarity to form a network of conscience to save India’s democracy. Amid this, a quiet thread in the book is the story of the Indian diaspora in the US that had just about begun staring at a horizon of influence.
This is a parallel history of resistance to Indira Gandhi’s dictatorial rule between 1975 and 1977, when an internal emergency was proclaimed in India. The events here unfold entirely in the United States of America surrounded by the echoes of emergency action in India. The book has an intimate h...

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SUGATA SRINIVASARAJU is an independent journalist, author and columnist who has written for nearly three decades at the intersection of politics, culture and contemporary history. In the past, he has edited newspapers, run television channels and digital news platforms. Over the years, he has been a Chevening Scholar in the UK, a fellow of the Aspen Institute in the US, and a Homi Bhabha fellow in India.Sugata’s books, among others, include Strange Burdens: The Politics and Predicaments of Rahul Gandhi; Furrows in a Field: The Unexplored Life of HD Deve Gowda; Pickles from Home: The Worlds of a Bilingual and Keeping Faith with the Mother Tongue: The Anxieties of a Local Culture.
SUGATA SRINIVASARAJU is an independent journalist, author and columnist who has written for nearly three decades at the intersection of politics, culture and contemporary history. In the past, he has edited newspapers, run television channels and digital news platforms. Over the years, he has bee...

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