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Prisoners of conscience = Zamīra ke baṅdī / by Anand Patwardhan, production [and] direction, A. Patwardhan.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Docuseek2 Complete Collection, Third Edition
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political prisoners--India--Interviews.
- Political prisoners.
- Human rights--India.
- Human rights.
- Torture--India.
- Torture.
- Police--Complaints against--India.
- Police.
- India--History--1947-.
- India.
- India--Politics and government--1947-.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Nonfiction films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 streaming video file (41 min.) ) digital, sound, black and white
- Other Title:
- Zamīra ke baṅdī
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] : [Distributed by] Anand Patwardhan, [2021]
- Language Note:
- In English with English subtitles.
- Summary:
- An important historical record of a traumatic period in India's recent political history, this film focuses on the State of Emergency imposed by Indira Gandhi from June 1975 to March 1977. During the Emergency the media was muzzled, over 100,000 people were arrested without charge and imprisoned without trial. But political prisoners existed before the Emergency, and they continue to exist even after it is over.
- Notes:
- Title from title frames.
- Originally produced in [1978].
- Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed April 01, 2021).
- OCLC:
- 1245862103
- Publisher Number:
- ap-poc Docuseek2
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