The editors:

Peter Ronald deSouza is Senior Research Associate, African Centre for Epistemology and Philosophy of Science (ACEPS), University of Johannesburg, and Trustee of the Institute of Social Studies Trust. He was Director, Indian Institute of Advanced Study (IIAS), Shimla, for two terms (2007–13).

Harsh Sethi worked as Consulting Editor of the monthly Seminar for two decades. Earlier he was with Sage Publications as Acquisitions Editor. He also held positions of Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, and Deputy Director at the Indian Council of Social Science Research.

Introduction: Revisiting the Emergency
Peter Ronald deSouza and Harsh Sethi
1. MISA and the Emergency: Laws, Lives and Afterlives
Ujjwal Kumar Singh and Anupama Roy
2. Aftermath of the Internal Emergency (25 June 1975–21 March 1977): The More Things Change, the More They Remain the Same
R. Sudarshan
3. Emergency and the Resistance Politics of Law: A Perspective from Andhra Pradesh
Kalpana Kannabiran
4. The Shah Commission Reports: A Tragic Moment and a Sinister Recurrence
Deepak Sanan
5. Three Controversial Aspects of the Emergency Raj
Anand Kumar
6. The Economic Roots of the Emergency
Errol D’Souza
7. Emergency and the Fabled Foreign Hand: A Factual, Fanciful, or Fabricated Fear?
Varun Sahni
8. Resistance Journalism during the Emergency
Pamela Philipose
9. Chronicle of a Repression Foretold: JNU in the Emergency and After – University Restructuring in a Global Context
Ravi Arvind Palat
10. Internal Disturbances: Poetry and Prophecy 1975–77
Rukmini Bhaya Nair
11. Many Meanings of Freedom: The Dandawate Prison Letters
Gyan Prakash
12. Reading [in] the Mulahiza
Mahmood Farooqui
13. Anushashan Parva: The Dictatorship of the Acharya
Tridip Suhrud
14. Debating the Idea of Freedom (In the Context of 25 June 1975)
Gopal Guru
15. Why did She Impose It and Why did She Lift It?: Revisiting the Indian Emergency of 1975
Peter Ronald deSouza