Sedition in Liberal Democracies
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9780199481699
Publication date:
05/01/2018
Hardback
406 pages
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ISBN:
9780199481699
Publication date:
05/01/2018
Hardback
406 pages
Anushka Singh
Examining 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.
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Anushka Singh
Description
Examining 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.
About the Author
Anushka Singh is assistant professor at the School of Law, Governance and Citizenship, Ambedkar University Delhi, India.
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Anushka Singh
Table of contents
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Liberal Democracy and Free Speech
1. Political Offences and Speech Crimes: Comparing Legal Regimes
2. Sedition and Western Liberal Democracies: The Past and the Present
3. Resistance, Suppression, and Patriotism: Sedition in Colonial India
4. Sedition and the Judicial Discourse in Postcolonial India
5. Caste, Class, Community, and the Everyday Tales of Law
6. Indian Democracy and the ‘Moment of Contradiction’
Conclusion: The Life of a Law and Contradictions of Liberal Democracies
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
Anushka Singh
Features
- The book adopts methodological plurality which will appeal to the disciplines of Political Science, Law, Sociology and History.
- Besides engaging the academics and research scholars of these disciplines, the topical nature of the book would ignite the interest of any keen observer of Indian Politics as well as Comparative Politics.
- The work would be relevant in the academic circles of England, USA and Australia.
Anushka Singh
Review
‘Effectively challenging the claim often made in liberal democracies that sedition must be penalised so that state authority can be maintained in the interest of individual liberty, this work is a solid contribution to theory and practice of liberal democracy. Scholars and activists will find in it much insight to explain the dynamics of state and civil liberties.’
—Manoranjan Mohanty, professor, Council for Social Development, New Delhi, India
‘A remarkable contribution to the field of law and politics in India, a powerful scholarly narration of the changing meanings of sedition in India, the book raises vital questions about the broken promise of law in liberal democracies.’
—Pratiksha Baxi, associate professor, Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
‘An important new contribution to ongoing urgent debate around free speech, civil liberties, sedition, and anti-terror laws. Combining methodical field studies with linguistic theory, placing Indian sedition law in a comparative, historical, legal, and sociological framework, it shows how sedition stands in tension with the promises of liberal democratic constitutionalism.’
—Gautam Bhatia, practising lawyer and academic based in New Delhi, India
Description
Examining 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.
About the Author
Anushka Singh is assistant professor at the School of Law, Governance and Citizenship, Ambedkar University Delhi, India.
Kindly download the flyer for more details.
Reviews
‘Effectively challenging the claim often made in liberal democracies that sedition must be penalised so that state authority can be maintained in the interest of individual liberty, this work is a solid contribution to theory and practice of liberal democracy. Scholars and activists will find in it much insight to explain the dynamics of state and civil liberties.’
—Manoranjan Mohanty, professor, Council for Social Development, New Delhi, India
‘A remarkable contribution to the field of law and politics in India, a powerful scholarly narration of the changing meanings of sedition in India, the book raises vital questions about the broken promise of law in liberal democracies.’
—Pratiksha Baxi, associate professor, Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
‘An important new contribution to ongoing urgent debate around free speech, civil liberties, sedition, and anti-terror laws. Combining methodical field studies with linguistic theory, placing Indian sedition law in a comparative, historical, legal, and sociological framework, it shows how sedition stands in tension with the promises of liberal democratic constitutionalism.’
—Gautam Bhatia, practising lawyer and academic based in New Delhi, India
Table of contents
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Liberal Democracy and Free Speech
1. Political Offences and Speech Crimes: Comparing Legal Regimes
2. Sedition and Western Liberal Democracies: The Past and the Present
3. Resistance, Suppression, and Patriotism: Sedition in Colonial India
4. Sedition and the Judicial Discourse in Postcolonial India
5. Caste, Class, Community, and the Everyday Tales of Law
6. Indian Democracy and the ‘Moment of Contradiction’
Conclusion: The Life of a Law and Contradictions of Liberal Democracies
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
