Cinema and the Indian National Emergency

"Cinema and the Indian National Emergency examines the strained relationship between the state and the Indian film industry during this period of political upheaval. Each of the essays, written from a broad range of critical perspectives, analyse controversial films such as Aandhi (1975), Nasbandi (1978), and Kissa Kursi Ka (1977), which were all subject to state censorship. It considers the cinematic representations and afterlives, and the possible modes of archiving and remembering the cinema of the Indian Emergency"--

Parichay Patra is Assistant Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology, Jodhpur, India. His research interests include transnational associations of cine-politics and the dictatorial regimes of the long 1960s.
Dibyakusum Ray is Lecturer in English, Philosophy and Cultural Studies at the Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar, India. He is author of Postcolonial Indian City-Literature: Policy, Politics and Evolution (2022). He is head of the centrally funded project on the archiving of lost media elements during the Indian National Emergency, 1975-77, in collaboration with Royal Holloway College, UK.