Alpa Shah
Title
Alpa Shah
Rights
Permission to upload photo by the author. Photo attribution: Rosie Tomes
Birth Date
1976
Primary Sources
Shah, A. (2024). When decolonization is hijacked. American Anthropologist, 126(4), 553-566. https://doi.org/10.1111/aman.28021
Shah, A. (2024). The Incarcerations: BK-16 and the Search for Democracy in India. HarperCollins. https://www.harpercollins.com.au/9780008518820/the-incarcerations/
Lerche, J., & Shah, A. (2023). Social Oppression and Exploitation of Adivasis and Dalits in Contemporary India. In I. Roy (Ed.), Passionate politics. Development, politics and India’s general election 2019. Manchester University Press. https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526157751.00026
(2022). Why I Write: In a Climate Against Intellectual Dissidence. Current Anthropology, 63(5), 570–600. https://doi.org/10.1086/722030.
Shah, A. (2018) Nightmarch: Among India’s Revolutionary Guerrillas. Hurst. https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/nightmarch/
Shah, A., Lerche, J., Axelby, R., Benbabaali, D., Donegan, B., Thakur, V., & Raj, J. (2018). Ground Down by Growth: Tribe, Caste, Class and Inequality in 21st Century India. Pluto Press. https://www.plutobooks.com/product/ground-down-by-growth/
, & . A. (2018). Conjugated Oppression Within Contemporary Capitalism: Class, Caste, Tribe and Agrarian Change in India. Journal of Peasant Studies 45(5-6), 927–949. https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2018.1463217
Shah, A., & Pettigrew, J. (2017).Windows into a Revolution : Ethnographies of Maoism in India and Nepal. Taylor and Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315145723
Shah, A. (2024). The Incarcerations: BK-16 and the Search for Democracy in India. HarperCollins. https://www.harpercollins.com.au/9780008518820/the-incarcerations/
Lerche, J., & Shah, A. (2023). Social Oppression and Exploitation of Adivasis and Dalits in Contemporary India. In I. Roy (Ed.), Passionate politics. Development, politics and India’s general election 2019. Manchester University Press. https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526157751.00026
(2022). Why I Write: In a Climate Against Intellectual Dissidence. Current Anthropology, 63(5), 570–600. https://doi.org/10.1086/722030.
Shah, A. (2018) Nightmarch: Among India’s Revolutionary Guerrillas. Hurst. https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/nightmarch/
Shah, A., Lerche, J., Axelby, R., Benbabaali, D., Donegan, B., Thakur, V., & Raj, J. (2018). Ground Down by Growth: Tribe, Caste, Class and Inequality in 21st Century India. Pluto Press. https://www.plutobooks.com/product/ground-down-by-growth/
, & . A. (2018). Conjugated Oppression Within Contemporary Capitalism: Class, Caste, Tribe and Agrarian Change in India. Journal of Peasant Studies 45(5-6), 927–949. https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2018.1463217
Shah, A., & Pettigrew, J. (2017).Windows into a Revolution : Ethnographies of Maoism in India and Nepal. Taylor and Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315145723
Secondary Sources
Rawat, R. S., & Satyanarayana, K. (2016). Dalit Studies. Duke University Press Books.
Bhushan, R. (2016). Maoism in India and Nepal. Routledge.
Judge, P. S. (2012). Between Exclusion and Exclusivity: Dalits in Contemporary India. Polish Sociological Review, 178, 265–279. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41969444
Extra Resources
Narayanan, N (Host). (2025, April 28). Alpa Shah on the Bhima Koregaon case and India’s democratic decline: State of Southasia #22. [Audio Podcast]. Himal Southasian. Accessed October 14, 2025. https://www.himalmag.com/podcasts/alpashah-bhima-koregaon-stanswamy-adivasi-dalit
Is Democracy in India OVER? | Alpa Shah meets Aaron Bastani | Downstream. (2024, May 27). Novara Media. YouTube. Accessed October 14, 2025. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfp-XXjYGwQ
Alpa Shah. (2024). Biography. Accessed October 14, 2025. https://www.alpashah.co.uk/
Is Democracy in India OVER? | Alpa Shah meets Aaron Bastani | Downstream. (2024, May 27). Novara Media. YouTube. Accessed October 14, 2025. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfp-XXjYGwQ
Alpa Shah. (2024). Biography. Accessed October 14, 2025. https://www.alpashah.co.uk/
Citation
“Alpa Shah,” Decoloniality, First Nations Thinkers and thought and practices from the Global South, accessed December 6, 2025, https://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/decoloniality-and-thinkers-from-the-global-south/items/show/769.