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Between midnight and the
early hours of June 26, 1975, Indira Gandhi closed down the world’s largest
democracy. Most people awoke to a hot, sultry and oppressive day, like most
summer mornings in Delhi, not knowing that the course of history had changed
while they slept. On the radio, Indira Gandhi was telling a dazed nation, in a
voice gone shrill, about the “deep and widespread conspiracy” which had forced
her government to act. The “plot”, she intoned, “sought to negate the very
functioning of democracy...How can any government worth the name stand by and
allow the country’s stability to be imperilled?”
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