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Book SynopsisA powerful look at authoritarian India through the experiences of political prisoners
Trade Review'A telling account of repression and resistance in the new India.'
-- Jean Drèze, Indian economist
'Those who want to understand the nature of today’s political regime in India need to read this book. Focusing on the situation of dozens of political prisoners whose words had never been reproduced so extensively so far, it shows how the Modi government is criminalising dissent. The demise of the rule of law is precipitated by the instrumentalization of the security apparatus and the making of a 'parallel regime of truth'.'
-- Christophe Jaffrelot, Professor of Indian Politics and Sociology, King's College London
'An important testament to the dystopian state of the nation through powerful documentation of the incarceration of dissent in contemporary India.'
-- Alpa Shah, author of 'Nightmarch: Among India’s Revolutionary Guerrillas'
'A brave and necessary record of how behind tall prison walls, some of India’s finest hearts and minds are locked away by a state fearful of their dreams. A book of aching, terrible beauty, bearing witness to the stubborn endurance of idealism, of courage and humanity shining through soul-numbing injustice'
-- Harsh Mander, writer, human rights and peace worker, teacher
Table of ContentsIntroduction
1. A Season of Arrests
2. Wages of Impunity: Cracking Down on Dissent
3. The Lies Factory
4. A Community in Resistance
5. Small things
6. Voices of Indian Political Prisoners
7. Name the Names
Epilogue: When the State Enters Your Home
