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Pages: 379
Authors: Prashant Bhushan
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-01-01 - Publisher: Penguin Random House India

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On 12 June 1975, for the first time in independent India's history, the election of a prime minister was set aside by a high court judgment. The watershed case,
The Case That Shook the Empire
Language: en
Pages: 159
Authors: Raghu Palat
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-08-23 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

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30 April 1924. At the Court of the King's Bench in London, the highest court in the Empire, an English judge and jury heard the case that would change the cours
The Emergency
Language: en
Pages: 364
Authors: Coomi Kapoor
Categories: Literary Collections
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-06-15 - Publisher: Penguin UK

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A searing indictment of the suspension of democracy In June 1975, a state of Emergency was declared, where civil liberties were suspended and the press muzzled.
10 Judgements That Changed India
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Authors: Zia Mody
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-08-15 - Publisher: Penguin UK

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Who was Shah Bano and why was her alimony pertinent to India’s Secularism? Does the fundamental right to life include the right to livelihood and shelter? Whe
In The Name Of Democracy
Language: en
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Authors: Bipan Chandra
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‘When Jayaprakash Narayan, the leader of the JP movement in north India, pressed for the resignation of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, it prompted her to impos