TY - BOOK AU - Singh,Anushka TI - Sedition in liberal democracies T2 - Oxford scholarship online SN - 9780199091041 (ebook) : AV - K5253 U1 - 342.0853 23 PY - 2019/// CY - New Delhi PB - Oxford University Press KW - Sedition KW - India KW - Comparative law N1 - Previously issued in print: 2018; Includes bibliographical references and index; Specialized N2 - 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 UR - https://go.openathens.net/redirector/lords.parliament.uk?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199481699.001.0001 ER -