Indian students in Chicago protest Indira Gandhi’s emergency rule
Snapshots from Indian-American history
this month, that year
June 26, 1975
—A flyer advertises a meeting to “Protest
Indira Gandhi’s Subversion of Democracy” on five charges,
including the imposition of
emergency, suspension of constitutional
rights, media censorship,
arrest of political leaders
and newspaper editors.
Several quotations are included from an AP report in the Chicago Sun-Times, describing the arrests and the motivations behind Gandhi’s actions. The flier, by Indian students, is dated June 26, 1975, the day the Gandhi-led government declared the state of emergency. The meeting was held at Foster Lounge in Chicago at 4 p.m.
Alice Itty is a volunteer for the South Asian American Digital Archive (SAADA). She currently works for the Alliance for Downtown New York. This column’s material is from SAADA. https://www.saada.org/.
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