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100	1		_aPlys, Kristin Victoria Magistrelli, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aBrewing resistance : _bIndian Coffee House and the Emergency in postcolonial India / _cKristin Victoria Magistrelli Plys.
263			_a2006
264		1	_aCambridge, United Kingdom ; _aNew York, NY : _bCambridge University Press, _c2020.
300			_a348p
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_a"Decolonisation in 1947 promised a better life for India's peasants, workers, students, Dalits and religious minorities. However, social justice remained a distant dream even in the 1970s. These diverse groups fought and mobilised movements to achieve what was promised at independence, and in response, the ruling government under the leadership of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi suspended the Constitution, declared Emergency and, with it, curtailed civil liberties. The hope of decolonisation that had turned to disillusion in the postcolonial period quickly descended into a nightmare. In this book, Kristin Plys recounts the little-known story of the resistance movement against the Emergency that brewed in New Delhi's Indian Coffee House. Created by British plantation owners to weather the empire-wide export commodity surplus crisis of the 1930s, the Indian Coffee House was occupied by its workers in 1946, and eventually transformed into a cooperative as part of an anti-colonial and anti-capitalist workers' movement. By the 1970s, the Indian Coffee House became more than an economic intervention into the processes of capitalism and empire-it transformed into a radical space where politically and artistically driven intellectuals of various persuasions and viewpoints gathered to resist the Emergency. Based on newly uncovered evidence and oral histories of the people who mobilized the movement against the Emergency, this book fills a major lacuna in the sphere of academic writing on one of the most shocking and darkest chapters of India's democratic history"-- _cProvided by publisher.
610	2	0	_aIndian Coffee House _xPolitical activity _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aProtest movements _zIndia _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aPolitical participation _zIndia _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aDemocracy _zIndia _xHistory _y20th century.
651		0	_aIndia _xPolitics and government _y1975-1977.
776	0	8	_iOnline version: _aPlys, Kristin Victoria Magistrelli. _tBrewing resistance _dCambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020. _z9781108781114 _w(DLC) 2020014080
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