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020			_a9780199481699
082			_a342.0853 _bSIN-S
100			_aSingh, Anushka
245			_aSedition in liberal democracies
260			_aNew Delhi _bOxford University Press, _c2018
300			_axii, 391p.
504			_aincludes bibliography, index and about the author.
520			_aExamining the relationship between sedition and liberal democracies, particularly in India, this book looks at the biography of sedition laws, its contradictory position against free speech, and democratic ethics. Recent sedition cases registered in India show that the law in its wide and diverse deployment was used against agitators in a community-based pro-reservation movement, group of university students for their alleged 'anti-national' statements, anti-liquor activists, and anti-nuclear movement, to name a few. Set against its contemporary use, this book has used sedition as a lens to probe the fate of political speech in liberal democracy. The lived reality of the law of sedition in changing anthropological sites is juxtaposed with its positivist existence. Anushka Singh uses a comparative framework keeping in focus the Indian experience backed by fieldwork in Haryana, Maharashtra, and Delhi, and includes a comparative perspective from England, the USA, and Australia to contribute to debates on sedition within liberal democracies at large, especially in the wake of the proliferation of counter-terror legislations.
650			_aDemocracy _aSedition _aLiberalism _zIndia
650			_aComparative law
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