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Nightmarch: Among India''s Revolutionary Guerrillas

English

By (author): Alpa Shah

Winner of the 2020 Association for Political and Legal Anthropology Book Prize

Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize


Shortlisted for the New India Foundation Book Prize
 
Anthropologist Alpa Shah found herself in an active platoon of Naxalitesone of the longest-running guerrilla insurgencies in the world. The only woman, and the only person without a weapon, she walked alongside the militants for seven nights across 150 miles of dense, hilly forests in eastern India. Nightmarch is the riveting story of Shah's journey, grounded in her years of living with Indias tribal people, an eye-opening exploration of the movements history and future and a powerful contemplation of how disadvantaged people fight back against unjust systems in todays world.
 
The Naxalites have fought for a communist society for the past fifty years, caught in a conflict that has so far claimed at least forty thousand lives. Yet surprisingly little is known about these fighters in the West. Framed by the Indian state as a deadly terrorist group, the movement is actually made up of Marxist ideologues and lower-caste and tribal combatants, all of whom seek to overthrow a system that has abused them for decades. In Nightmarch, Shah shares some of their gritty untold stories: here we meet a high-caste leader who spent almost thirty years underground, a young Adivasi foot soldier, and an Adivasi youth who defected. Speaking with them and living for years with villagers in guerrilla strongholds, Shah has sought to understand why some of Indias poor have shunned the worlds largest democracy and taken up arms to fight for a fairer societyand asks whether they might be undermining their own aims.
 
By shining a light on this largely ignored corner of the world, Shah raises important questions about the uncaring advance of capitalism and offers a compelling reflection on dispossession and conflict at the heart of contemporary India.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 399g
  • Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
  • Publication Date: 23 Apr 2019
  • Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780226590332

About Alpa Shah

Alpa Shah is associate professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She is the author of In the Shadows of the State and a coauthor of Ground Down by Growth.  

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