The author of Emergency Chronicles: Indira Gandhi and Democracy’s Turning Point responds to Arvind Rajagopal’s review of his book published in EPW (1 June 2019), “The Emergency: A Watershed in India’s Politics.”
M S S Pandian, who passed away in New Delhi after a cardiac arrest on 10 November 2014, at the age of 57, was among the younger members who joined the editorial collective of the Subaltern Studies in 1990.
On Mumbai Fables Gyan Prakash double colonisation and in the ravages of the 1896-97 plague epidemic in the densely packed chawls. Upadhyay appears to want a sunny story told
