The Emergency (India)

Key concepts

How The Emergency (India) connects to the ideas, people and events around it.

1. India

   India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the world's seventh-largest country by area and its most populous.

2. Indira Gandhi

   Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi was an Indian stateswoman who twice served as the Prime Minister of India from 1966 to 1977 and again from 1980 until her assassination in 1984.

3. States of emergency in India

   Part XVIII of the Constitution of India allows for a constitutional setup that can be proclaimed by the president of India as a state of emergency, when the consultant group perceives and warns against grave threats to the nation from internal and external sources or from financial situations of crisis.

4. Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed

   Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed was an Indian lawyer and politician who served as the President of India from 1974 to 1977.

5. Constitution of India

   The Constitution of India is the supreme legal document of India, and the longest written national constitution in the world.

6. Rule by decree

   Rule by decree is a style of governance in which a single person or small group makes law directly, without the usual approval of a legislature.

7. Civil liberties

   Civil liberties are fundamental rights and freedoms that governments pledge not to restrict, either through constitutions, legislation, or judicial interpretation, without due process of law.

8. Censorship

   Censorship is the suppression of speech, public communication, or other information. This may be done on the basis that such material is considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, or "inconvenient".

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