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The book features contributions from scholars, including Ashish Rajadhyaksha, Ranjani Mazumdar and Amrit Gangar, who analyse how cinema both reflected and contested authoritarian rule.

Taken together, the essays present cinema as a diagnostic instrument for Indian democracy.

Cinema and the Indian National Emergency offers a comprehensive and conceptually ambitious analysis to date of the Emergency’s cinematic legacy.

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The book explores how cinema during the 1975–77 Emergency was shaped by censorship, state control, and propaganda, while still enabling subtle forms of critique.

Essays examine film societies, state documentaries, parallel cinema, and popular Hindi films to reveal how cultural production negotiated authoritarian pressur

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