The emergency and the Indian English novel : memory, culture and politics /
"This book examines the cultural trauma of the Indian Emergency through a reading of five seminal novels. It discusses how the Emergency was an event that led to a prodigious outpouring of novels trying to preserve the forgotten horrors it wreaked on people and institutions of the country. The...
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :
Routledge,
2019.
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Table of Contents:
- Midnight's children : preserving memories for "the Amnesiac nation"
- Safeguarding democracy in the great Indian novel
- Family ties : nepotism and corruption in rich like us
- The repressive state apparatus in such a long journey and a fine balance.