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In 1975, the Indira Gandhi government declared Emergency in India, unveiling an era of State excesses, human rights violations, the centralisation of power and the dismantling of democracy. Nearly half a century later, the phrase ?undeclared emergency? gathers currency as citizens and analysts struggle to define the nature of India?s present crisis.In Undeclared Emergency, Arvind Narrain presents a devastatingly thorough examination of the nature of this emergency?a systematic attack on the rule of law that hits at the foundation of a democracy, its Constitution. This clear-eyed legal analysis of its implications also documents an ongoing history of constitutional subversion, one that predates the Narendra Modi-led NDA government?a lineage of curtailed freedoms, censorship, preventive detention laws and diluted executive accountability.Is history repeating itself then? Not quite. This book is an account of an inaugural era in Indian history. Narrain shows that the Modi government,