The immediate trigger for Gandhi’s drastic step was a decision of the Allahabad High Court in 1975 that disqualified her from ...

According to JP, Indira Gandhi was not much of a danger to democracy. He said, it was Sanjay Gandhi and his gang.' ...

India witnessed the beginning of 21 months of the Emergency imposed by then-Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. Fifty years after ...

On this day 50 years ago, then prime minister Indira Gandhi declared Emergency, suspending rights and jailing rivals.

P.N. Dhar's account of the Emergency reveals Sanjay Gandhi's detrimental influence on Indira Gandhi's government, leading to ...

Indira Gandhi imposed Emergency in 1975 after her election was voided. Civil liberties were suspended, opposition jailed, and protests crushed. It ended in 1977 with her electoral defeat.

As principal secretary to Indira Gandhi in the run up to the Emergency, PN Dhar had a rare insight into the goings-on of the ...

On the 50th anniversary of the Emergency, External Affairs Minister Dr. S Jaishankar highlights the political and economic context that led to one of the darkest chapters in India's democracy. He ...

As many as 21 judges were transferred without their consent, 200 chambers of lawyers practising in Tis Hazari courts were ...

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the third and most controversial National Emergency in India’s constitutional history ...

Then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi imposed the Emergency on June 25, 1975 after an Allahabad high court voided her election ...

On June 12, 1975, the Allahabad High Court had voided Indira Gandhi’s election to parliament in 1971 on the grounds of electoral malpractice. The Supreme Court gave her a conditional stay, ...