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Deb, Siddhartha, 1970- author.

Twilight prisoners : the rise of the Hindu right and the fall of India / - 217 pages 18 cm.

Introduction:
Part I:
1. Nowhere Man: The Violence, Rage, and Insecurity of Narendra Modi;
2. An Alien Visitation: The Worst Industrial Disaster in the History of the World;
3. Nowhere Land: The Lost Dissidents of Manipur;
Part Il:
4. Manufacturing Foreigners: India's War of Disenfranchisement against Muslims;
5. Ram's Kingdom: The Ayodhya Temple and the Ruins of History;
6. Impossible Machines: Vimanas and Hindu-Right Fantasies of Ancient Technology;
Part III:
7. Killing Gauri Lankesh: Political Assassinations and the Silencing of Dissident Voices;
8. Manufacturing Evidence: The Bhima Koregaon Conspiracy and the Plot to Imprison India's Activists;
9. The Renegade at the Nation's Gates: Arundhati Roy and the Politics of Prose;
Acknowledgements;
Previously Published;
Index.


Traveling across India, interviewing Hindu zealots, armed insurgents, jailed dissidents, and politicians and thinkers from across the political spectrum, Siddhartha Deb reveals a country in which forces old and new have aligned to endanger democracy. The result is an absorbing--and disturbing--portrait. What's emerging in the world's largest democracy is nothing less than an fundamental dystopia, described here with a novelist's precise language and eye for detail.

ISBN: 9798888900888 (paperback)

Dewey Class. No.: 294.51725