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- Title
Experiments in state incarceration: an undeclared emergency Introduction to India special section.
- Authors
Virdi, Jyotika
- Abstract
On August 5, 2019, the Indian state in a spectacular show of the ascendant right-wing party's coercive power deployed the Indian army to place Kashmir's citizens in a lockdown, suspended phone and internet services, arrested political leaders, and an estimated 4000 activists. It has seized traditional and new media - print, television, digital, and social - as well as education, and various professional, state and quasi-state research bodies, where arriving at a middle-ground among the "intelligentsia", the literati, is becoming increasingly impossible. Netflix and Amazon Prime series, most recently Deepa Mehta's Leila, about a dystopian future Hindutva state, kicked off controversies the state machinery is powerless to control.
- Subjects
INDIA; SOCIAL scientists; IMPRISONMENT; SYMBOLISM in politics; POLITICIANS; RELIGIOUS minorities; DOMESTIC violence
- Publication
Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media, 2019, Issue 59, p1
- ISSN
0146-5546
- Publication type
Article