The Dramatic Performances Control Act, 1876 was a repressive legislation aimed at destroying the forces of Indian nationalism. It was also a law that the set the precedent for overturning judicial verdicts using executive fiat.
The history of independent India is also the depressing history of decadal agitations that kept India unstable and continuously on the boil. The national costs have been enormous.
A little-known Congress scam revealing how the State Trading Corporation and the MMTC was used to loot national resources worth ₹ 500 crores in the 1970s