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Author | : Alpa Shah |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 357 |
Release | : 2019-04-23 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 022659047X |
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 Naxalites—one 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 India’s tribal people, an eye-opening exploration of the movement’s history and future and a powerful contemplation of how disadvantaged people fight back against unjust systems in today’s 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 India’s poor have shunned the world’s largest democracy and taken up arms to fight for a fairer society—and 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.
Author | : Bruce Lancaster |
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Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 1958 |
Genre | : United States |
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A Union Officer escapes from a Confederate prison and, with his companions, makes a long night-march to Tennessee and the Battle of Franklin.
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Total Pages | : 678 |
Release | : 1928 |
Genre | : Horse breeding |
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Author | : Alpa Shah |
Publisher | : HarperCollins |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2018-11-05 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9353023874 |
| SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2019, SHORTLISTED FOR THE KAMALADEVI CHATTOPADHYAY NEW INDIA FOUNDATION BOOK PRIZE 2019, AND LONGLISTED FOR THE TATA LITERATURE LIVE NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019 | | SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2019, SHORTLISTED FOR THE KAMALADEVI CHATTOPADHYAY NEW INDIA FOUNDATION BOOK PRIZE 2019, AND LONGLISTED FOR THE TATA LITERATURE LIVE NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019 |In 2010, just as the Indian government was stepping up its counterinsurgency operations in the country's Naxal-affected areas, Alpa Shah set out on a seven-night march with a guerrilla platoon across 250 kilometres of the same territory. An anthropology professor, she wanted to understand why, against the backdrop of a shiny new India, the country's poor had shunned the world's largest democracy and united with revolutionary ideologues. Dressed as a man in an olive-green guerrilla uniform, Alpa was the only woman and the only person not carrying a gun in the platoon. Her gritty journey reveals how and why people from very different backgrounds come together to take up arms to change the world but also what makes them fall apart. Unfolding like a thriller and brought to life by Alpa's years of research and immersion into the daily lives of the tribal communities in a Naxal stronghold, Nightmarch is a reflection on economic growth, rising inequality, dispossession and conflict at the heart of contemporary India.
Author | : Alpa Shah |
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Total Pages | : 320 |
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Genre | : POLITICAL SCIENCE |
ISBN | : 9781787381568 |
Author | : United States. War Department |
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Total Pages | : 1268 |
Release | : 1895 |
Genre | : Confederate States of America |
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Total Pages | : 1264 |
Release | : 1895 |
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Author | : Charles Burnett |
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Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 1905 |
Genre | : South African War, 1899-1902 |
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Total Pages | : 574 |
Release | : 1873 |
Genre | : Arkansas |
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Total Pages | : 60 |
Release | : 1924 |
Genre | : Jews |
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