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Birth Date
1976
Primary Sources
<span>Shah, A. (2024). When decolonization is hijacked. <em>American Anthropologist, 126</em>(4), 553-566. </span><span><a href="https://doi.org/10.1111/aman.28021 ">https://doi.org/10.1111/aman.28021 </a></span><br /><br />Shah, A. (2024). <em>The Incarcerations: BK-16 and the Search for Democracy in India.</em> <span>HarperCollins. <a href="https://www.harpercollins.com.au/9780008518820/the-incarcerations/">https://www.harpercollins.com.au/9780008518820/the-incarcerations/</a> <br /><br />Lerche, J., & Shah, A. (2023). Social Oppression and Exploitation of Adivasis and Dalits in Contemporary India. In I. Roy (Ed.), <em>Passionate politics. Development, politics and India’s general election 2019.</em> Manchester University Press. <a href="https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526157751.00026" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526157751.00026</a><br /><br /><span class="author">Shah, A.</span> (<span class="pubYear">2022)</span>. <span class="articleTitle">Why I Write: In a Climate Against Intellectual Dissidence</span>. <i>Current Anthropology, </i><em><span class="vol">63</span></em>(<span class="citedIssue">5</span>), <span class="pageFirst">570</span>–<span class="pageLast">600</span>. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1086/722030" class="linkBehavior">https://doi.org/10.1086/722030</a>.</span><br /><br />Shah, A. (2018) <em>Nightmarch: Among India’s Revolutionary Guerrillas. </em>Hurst. <a href="https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/nightmarch/">https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/nightmarch/</a><br /><br />Shah, A., Lerche, J., Axelby, R., Benbabaali<span>, D., Donegan, B., Thakur, V., & </span><span>Raj, J. </span>(2018). <em>Ground Down by Growth: Tribe, Caste, Class and Inequality in 21st Century India.</em> Pluto Press. <a href="https://www.plutobooks.com/product/ground-down-by-growth/">https://www.plutobooks.com/product/ground-down-by-growth/</a> <strong><em><br /><br /></em></strong><span class="groupName"><span class="author">Lerche, J.</span>, & <span class="author">Shah</span>. A. (<span class="pubYear">2018)</span>. <span class="articleTitle">Conjugated Oppression Within Contemporary Capitalism: Class, Caste, Tribe and Agrarian Change in India</span>. <em>Journal of Peasant Studies <span class="vol">45</span></em>(<span class="citedIssue">5-6</span>), <span class="pageFirst">927</span>–<span class="pageLast">949</span>. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2018.1463217" class="linkBehavior">https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2018.1463217</a></span><strong><em><br /><br /></em></strong>Shah, A., & Pettigrew, J. (2017).<em><i>Windows into a Revolution : Ethnographies of Maoism in India and Nepal</i></em><em>. </em>Taylor and Francis. <a href="https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315145723">https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315145723</a>
Secondary Sources
<p class="nuc-modal-body__citation-content nuc-modal-body__citation-data nuc-modal-body__citation-data--indent"><span class="groupName"><span>Rawat, R. S., & Satyanarayana, K. (2016). <i>Dalit Studies</i>. Duke University Press Books.<br /><br />Bhushan, R. (2016). <i>Maoism in India and Nepal</i>. Routledge. <br /><br />Judge, P. S. (2012). Between Exclusion and Exclusivity: Dalits in Contemporary India. </span><i>Polish Sociological Review</i><span>, </span><i>178</i><span>, 265–279. <a href="http://www.jstor.org/stable/41969444">http://www.jstor.org/stable/41969444</a> </span></span><br /><a href="https://www.catharsismagazine.com/post/interview-jens-lerche-and-alpa-shah" target="_blank" rel="noopener"></a></p>
Extra Resources
<span><span>Narayanan, N (Host). (2025, April 28). </span></span><em>Alpa Shah on the Bhima Koregaon case and India’s democratic decline: State of Southasia #22.</em> [Audio Podcast]. Himal Southasian. Accessed October 14, 2025. <a href="https://www.himalmag.com/podcasts/alpashah-bhima-koregaon-stanswamy-adivasi-dalit">https://www.himalmag.com/podcasts/alpashah-bhima-koregaon-stanswamy-adivasi-dalit</a><span><span><br /></span></span><span><span> <br /></span></span>Is Democracy in India OVER? | Alpa Shah meets Aaron Bastani | Downstream. (2024, May 27). <em>Novara Media. </em>YouTube. Accessed October 14, 2025. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfp-XXjYGwQ">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfp-XXjYGwQ</a><span><span><br /></span></span><br />Alpa Shah. (2024). <em>Biography.</em> Accessed October 14, 2025. <a href="https://www.alpashah.co.uk/">https://www.alpashah.co.uk/</a> <br /><span></span>
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Alpa Shah
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Permission to upload photo by the author. Photo attribution: Rosie Tomes
Caste
Dalit Human Rights
India
Indigenous Activism
Indigenous Rights