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02890aam a22003015i 4500 001 FEE73E583BA411EC87B0DC564EECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20211102011932 008 210917s2021 ii 001 0 eng 010 $a 2021317296 020 $a 9390679532 020 $a 9789390679539 035 $a (OCoLC)1268545216 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d IWA $d SILO 042 $a lcode 100 1 $a Joseph, Josy 245 14 $a The silent coup : $b a history of India's deep state / $c Josy Joseph. 264 1 $a Chennai : $b Context, an imprint of Westland Publications Private Limited $c 2021. 300 $a 306 pages ; $c 25 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a India is justly proud of a parliamentary democracy that has never been threatened by a military coup. No mean feat in a neighbourhood where coups are common and notions of constitutionality shaky. However, for decades now, Indiaâs democratic standing has been steadily declining. An international analysis recently rated the country as only âpartly freeâ, while another deemed it an âelectoral autocracyâ. Josy Joseph investigates this decline and comes away with a key insight: that the process of confronting militancy has warped the system. As insurgencies erupted across India, and grew increasingly more sophisticated in the 1980s and â90s, the security establishment struggled to keep up. Increasingly overwhelmed, the police forces, intelligence agencies, federal investigation agencies, tax departments and the like came up with ingeniousâat times sinisterâsolutions: from faking and framing evidence to staging massive terror attacks and even creating terrorist organisations. Over time, militancy became a flourishing, multi-faceted business enterprise. From the Kashmiri militancy to the Sri Lankan civil war, from the attack on Mumbai to the long-term unrest in the Northeast, Indiaâs âwar on terrorâ has made its security institutions more nationalistic and chauvinistic and, inevitably, more corrupt. Most dangerously, there is a near-complete capture of the security apparatus, whether investigative agencies, police or intelligence, by the political executiveâserving as stormtroopers with no accountability, rather than as defenders of the Constitution. The result of more than two decades of reporting on insurgencies, terrorism and the security establishment, The Silent Coup is a wake-up call to the nation. You do not need a military coup to subvert democracy, Joseph saysâin India, it has already been subverted. 650 0 $a Civil-military relations $z India. 651 0 $a India $x Politics and government. 651 0 $a India $x Political activity. $x Political activity. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20220602014703.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=FEE73E583BA411EC87B0DC564EECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search