Talk:Indian Emergency (1975-1977)

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I reverted most of User:64.124.144.231's changes. The three reversions I feel merit some explanation are:

1. adding "darkest" to "period of modern Indian history". I actually agree with the anonymous user, but you see, we can't push a point of view. If somebody actually reads the article, they'll come to their own conclusions, and it's not likely to be favourable of the Emergency for the simple reason that there's not much about the Emergency to like.
2. changing to "toppled democracy". It's really much stronger if we can quote Indira herself saying that she "brought democracy to a grinding halt", than if we just adopt a POV of our own out of the blue.
3. changing "anti-Indira parties" to "non-Congress parties". Non-Congress parties is a less accurate term, because the anti-Indira groups included factions of Congress that Indira had fallen out with (such as Indian National Congress (Organisation)).

Cheers. QuartierLatin 1968 5 July 2005 01:43 (UTC)

[edit] One impact of the emergency:

The emergency may have showed how democracy could be treathened from within (which was something that seems to have gone unanticipated by those who wrote the constitution) whereas the election of 1977 showed that people where commited to democracy and were not just blindly voting Indira Gandhi to power. After the 1977 election the constitution was ammended to bring more safegards as to how emergency is declared and to laws prohibiting the revoking of certains rights enjoyed by citizens for whatever reasons (this includes unlawful arrest, and the right to challenge it). {{{author}}}, {{{title}}}, [[{{{publisher}}}]], [[{{{date}}}]]. Democracy in India therefore really came out stronger than it was before. It also broke the hold of a single party dominating politics in India... slowly every state in the country developed a competitive multiple party environment. in some states, like in UP and Bihar, they cease to exist as a power base.

Shouldn't the above content or something along this lines belong in the article?

hydkat(ballyhoo back :) 19:34, 26 February 2006 (UTC)