periodical issue
THE UNIVERSALIST
1976
16 pages
Summary
This 1976 issue of The Universalist documents the Indian Emergency and argues that constitutional safeguards, press freedom, judicial independence, and individual rights were being dismantled through formally legal measures. Its recurring feature “Step by Step to Dictatorship” presents a chronology from the political crisis of 1975 through emergency regulations, censorship, arrests, opposition protests, constitutional amendments, and the weakening of parliamentary and judicial checks. The issue also reproduces material on the Ananda Marga cases, presenting international observers’ criticisms of delayed proceedings, restricted defence rights, questionable evidence, and the political climate surrounding the prosecution of P. R. Sarkar and his followers.
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