LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 13:5 May 2013
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
         Sam Mohanlal, Ph.D.
         B. A. Sharada, Ph.D.
         A. R. Fatihi, Ph.D.
         Lakhan Gusain, Ph.D.
         Jennifer Marie Bayer, Ph.D.
         S. M. Ravichandran, Ph.D.
         G. Baskaran, Ph.D.
         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.
Assistant Managing Editor: Swarna Thirumalai, M.A.

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National Emergency in Nayantara Saghal’s Rich Like Us

R. Pramela, M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D. Scholar

Proclamation of Internal Emergency

In 1975, India experienced its greatest political crisis since independence when the state of Internal Emergency was declared on 26 June. By the beginning of 1973, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s popularity had begun to decline. People’s expectations remained unfulfilled. Little dent was being made on rural or urban poverty or economic inequality. The year 1973 also witnessed oil shock when world prices of crude oil increased four-fold, leading to massive increase in the prices of petroleum products and fertilizers. The price rise affected both the poor and the middle classes. Economic recession, unemployment, price rise and scarcity of goods led to large scale industrial unrest and a wave of strikes in different parts of the country during 1972 and 1973. There occurred a railway strike all over India in May 1974, and it lasted for twenty two days and law and order deteriorated in 1974-75.

Indira Gandhi proclaimed a State of Emergency on the morning of 26, June 1975. In the early hours of 26 June, a large number of people were arrested under the Maintenance of Internal Security Act. Arrests continued throughout the period and the people were released after a few days or months. In all, more than 10,000 were arrested; among those arrested were also a large number of anti-social elements such as smugglers, hoarders, black marketers and known gonads.

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R. Pramela, M.A., M.Phil.
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Department of English
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