[Reader-list] random question...did you study about the Emergency at school?

[A Khanna]

hi,

just wondering...does anyone who was in school in India post 1976 (and  
i guess that's many people on this list) remember studying about the  
Emergency at school...in Civics or History or anything? as a child  
born to a family that was displaced from delhi due to events related  
indirectly to the emergency i was to hear some aspects of it recounted  
often at home, but as i remember, it simply did not exist in the  
narrative of the indian nation that we were offered in the ICSE  
syllabus in the 1980s. what was it like in other boards of education?

school is ofcourse only one of many places where these stories are  
told, but am wondering in the context of the return of the ghost of  
Sanjay Gandhi in the form of his dramatic son (and his apparent desire  
for a policy of coercive sterilization, that trope that seems to get  
its power through its attachment to a metaphor of emasculation) how we  
remember that period.

akshay

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