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The Emergency at 50: 1975-77 and the making of India's safeguards

Fifty years after the 25 June 1975 proclamation: what happened during the twenty-one months, how the 44th Amendment rebuilt the safeguards, and what the Emergency still teaches about constitutional morality.

Swadeshi 1905: Boycott, Bande Mataram, and India's First Mass Classroom

For three years Bengal tried to live without Britain, boycotting Manchester cloth, building Indian mills and national schools. The Swadeshi movement was India's first mass classroom, and its laboratory for everything Gandhi later used.