The State, Democracy and Anti-Terror Laws in India

Author: Ujjwal Kumar Singh
Publisher: Sage Publications
Year: 2007
Language: English
Pages: 345
ISBN/UPC (if available): 0761935185

Description

This book examines the implications for Indian society and politics of laws that are made to tackle events and situations out of the ordinary.

By reviewing public debates, comparing specific clauses of the laws and noting how they have been interpreted over time in judicial pronouncements, the author: shows how notions like nation, national identity and patriotism get entrenched in discourses on terrorism, conspiracy and national security; observes how extraordinary measures become 'normal' and acquire a place of permanence in the practices of the state; and concludes that extra-ordinary laws serve as instruments through which the hegemonic structures of the nation state are maintained.

Contents

Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations


CHAPTER ONE
Dilemmas of Democracy or Reasons of State

CHAPTER TWO
‘Cutting Down Trees’

CHAPTER THREE
The Unfolding of Extraordinariness
POTA

CHAPTER FOUR
The unfolding of Extraordinariness
National Security Syndrome


CONCLUSION
POTA and Beyond


Bibliography

Index