On 28 June 1975, three days after the Emergency was proclaimed, The Indian Express left a section of its editorial page blank rather than run government-censor…
Student unrest in Gujarat and Bihar fed into a broader opposition campaign led by Jayaprakash Narayan against the Indira Gandhi government, with The Indian Express incre…
The Allahabad High Court found Indira Gandhi guilty of electoral malpractice tied to her 1971 election, prompting an appeal to the Supreme Court and starting the chain o…
President Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed signed the Proclamation of Emergency late on 25 June 1975, citing "internal disturbance" -- wording the 44th Amendment would later replace.
Newspapers were required to submit material to national and regional censors for clearance before publication, adding a new link to the ordinary editorial chain.
The paper resumed publication and left its editorial page blank rather than run censor-cleared copy. Proprietor Ramnath Goenka backed the protest; editor Kuldip Nayar la…
After the tactic was noticed, censors ruled that newspapers could not use blank editorial spaces or substitute quotations from famous personalities either -- closing the…
General elections on 16-20 March 1977 saw Congress lose heavily in the north; the Janata Party won, Morarji Desai became Prime Minister on 24 March, and the Emergency wa…
The 44th Constitutional Amendment Act, 1978 replaced "internal disturbance" with the narrower "armed rebellion" as an Emergency ground, and the Press Council of India wa…
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