Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Series Editor's Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Local and the Universal
- 3 ‘Otherness’ in Mistry
- 4 Politics in Mistry's Fiction
- 5 Recurring Themes
- 6 Rohinton Mistry and Indian Writing in English
- Topics for Discussion
- Appendix A The 1975 Emergency
- Appendix B MISA
- Appendix C The History of the Bangladesh Conflict
- Appendix D List of Honours and Awards
- Bibliography
Appendix B - MISA
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 November 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Series Editor's Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Local and the Universal
- 3 ‘Otherness’ in Mistry
- 4 Politics in Mistry's Fiction
- 5 Recurring Themes
- 6 Rohinton Mistry and Indian Writing in English
- Topics for Discussion
- Appendix A The 1975 Emergency
- Appendix B MISA
- Appendix C The History of the Bangladesh Conflict
- Appendix D List of Honours and Awards
- Bibliography
Summary
MISA or the Maintenance of Internal Security Act (1971) was created on the grounds that it gave the government enhanced power to deal with threats posed to national security owing to relations between India and Pakistan, but was also deployed to curb the Naxalbari movement at that time. It was revamped during the 1975–77 Emergency to allow the government to arrest individuals without declaring charges. Tens of thousands of politicians from the oposition were arrested under the Defense of India Rules and the MISA. Efforts at controlling public resistance included moves against factory unionism through laws such as ESMA. The Essential Services Maintenance Act of 1981 or ESMA allowed the government to ban strikes and lockouts in sixteen economic sectors that provide critical goods and services.
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- Rohinton MistryAn Introduction, pp. 117Publisher: Foundation BooksPrint publication year: 2006