TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ashok Mitra
TI  - The hoodlum years
SN  - 0861311655
U1  - 954.05 
PY  - 1979///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - Orient Longman
KW  - India
KW  - Politics and government
N2  - The Hoodlum Years refer to the years of terror and agony that India passed through in the early-mid 1970s and culminated in the Emergency. At the time Ashok Mitra contributed a series of sensitive essays to the Economic and Political Weekly that tellingly and powerfully portrayed the horror of those years. This volume contains a selection of these essays, written during 1972–75 and between January and April 1977.

The claustrophobic season of 1972–77, the author feels, ought to be remembered every now and then; there is otherwise a danger of our judgement being distorted by the familiar problem of forgetting.

With its honest and detailed analysis, this new edition, with a Foreword by Prabhat Patnaik, will be valuable for students and scholars of political sociology, modern Indian history and political science
ER  -