TY  - BOOK
AU  - Joseph,Josy
TI  - The silent coup : : a history of India's deep state / 
SN  - 9789390679539 (pbk)
U1  - 355.021 8 JOS 
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Chennai : 
PB  - Context, 
KW  - Politics and Government
KW  - History
N1  - Includes index
N2  - India is justly proud of a parliamentary democracy that has never been threatened by a military coup. No mean feat in a neighborhood where coups are common and notions of constitutionality shaky. However, for decades now, India's democratic standing has been steadily declining. An international analysis recently rated the country as only 'partly free', while another deemed it an 'electoral autocracy'. Josy Joseph investigates this decline and comes away with a key insight: that the process of confronting militancy has warped the system. As insurgencies erupted across India, and grew increasingly more sophisticated in the 1980s and '90s, the security establishment struggled to keep up. Increasingly overwhelmed, the police forces, intelligence agencies, federal investigation agencies, tax departments and the like came up with ingenious-at times sinister-solutions: from faking and framing evidence to staging massive terror attacks and even creating terrorist organizations
ER  -