‘My wife had to get sterilised’: exploring women’s experiences of sterilisation under the emergency in India, 1975–1977
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DOI: 10.1080/09584935.2017.1292212
Abstract: Existing scholarship on the Emergency’s sterilisation programme largely excludes women’s experiences, echoing the Shah Commission of Inquiry’s focus on men’s complaints against the government in its published reports. This paper re-orients historical understandings of this… read more here.
Keywords: sterilisation; 1975 1977; emergency; women experiences ... See more keywords
Media satyagraha in the broadcast age: underground literature and populist politics during the Indian internal emergency of 1975–1977
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DOI: 10.1080/1369801x.2019.1585908
Abstract: This essay considers the role of media in a major instance of populist mobilization in post-Independence India: resistance to the internal Emergency of 1975–1977. It engages with sender–message–receiver models of communication by looking at how… read more here.
Keywords: media satyagraha; emergency; populist; 1975 1977 ... See more keywords