There can be no argument, either academic or political, for keeping certain aspects of India’s contemporary history and politics out of textbooks, especially at the high school level. Yet, there cannot but be disconcertment about the manner in which the powers that be in India today project the Emergency that was declared in June 1975 and was lifted 21 months later, in March 1977. For public consumption, it is all about the dark chapter in India’s contemporary history—which it indeed was—that deserves full condemnation and its architect, the Congress party, censure, unmindful that several elements of the authoritarianism witnessed then, wittingly or unwittingly, prevail now too. It is but natural, then, that India’s Education Minister........

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