00765pab a2200133 454500008004000000100002300040245007000063260000900133300001400142362000800156520041900164650001400583773003400597180718b2003   xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aSingh, Ujjal Kumar  aDemocratic dilemmas: can democracy do without extraordinary laws?  c2003  ap.437-40.  aFeb  aThe debates over coercive, extraordinary laws before and after independence raise some crucial questions on the inherent fragility of the democratic dilemma - the assertion of authority at the expense of citizens' liberty.  It is necessary to look at the various strands of the debate, to see how they define democratic politics and what constiutes the idea of the undemocratic and the extraordinary. - Reproduced.  aDemocracy  aEconomic and Political Weekly