Emergency In NCERT: How India's 'Darkest Chapter' Is Being Taught To Students
Fifty years after the Emergency was imposed in India, NCERT's new Class 9 Social Science textbook includes a detailed chapter on the period often described as one of the darkest phases in Indian democracy. The chapter discusses the suspension of fundamental rights, press censorship, arrests of opposition leaders, and the political developments that unfolded between 1975 and 1977.
