The curious case of the ‘missing’ Shah Commission report on Emergency and its eventual rediscovery
After Indira Gandhi returned to power in 1980, the three‑volume Shah Commission report investigating the 1975‑77 Emergency became inaccessible, leading to speculation about its whereabouts. Decades later, researchers located the missing documents in a government archive, confirming their existence and providing new material for scholars studying the period’s political abuses and accountability mechanisms, and legal reforms.