Sedition in Liberal Democracies
- ISBN-10
- 0199091048
- ISBN-13
- 9780199091041
- Category
- Comparative law
- Pages
- 391
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2018
- Author
- Anushka Singh
Description
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, a group of university students for their alleged 'anti-national' statements, and also against the anti-liquor activists and anti-nuclear movements, to name a few. 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.
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