Overview
India, the world's largest democracy, is facing its greatest challenge since the end of British colonial rule in 1947. The Incarcerations tells the remarkable and chilling story of the Bhima Koregaon case, in which 16 human rights defenders (the BK-16) -- professors, lawyers, journalists, poets -- have been imprisoned, without credible evidence and without trial, as Maoist terrorists. Expertly leading us through the case, Shah exposes some of the world's most shocking revelations of cyber warfare research, which show not only hacking of emails and mobile phones of the BK-16, but also implantation of the electronic evidence that was used to incarcerate them. Through the life histories of the BK-16, Shah dives deep into the issues they fought for and tells the story of India's three main minorities -- Adivasi, Dalits and Muslims -- and what the search for democracy entails for them. Essential and urgent, The Incarcerations reveals how this case is a bellwether for the collapse of democracy in India, as for the first time in the nation's history there is a multi-pronged, coordinated attack on key defenders of various pillars of democracy.
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Author: Alpa Shah
Publisher: OR Books
Imprint: OR Books
ISBN: 9781682195185
ISBN 10: 168219518
Pages: 688
Publication Date: 03 September 2024
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Reviews
"""A gripping and rigorous crime story about the murder of a once thriving democracy."" --Naomi Klein ""Alpa Shah's book is about the criminalisation and incarceration of dissent itself. It does us a great service."" --Arundhati Roy ""No finer account has been written yet about the collapse of the world's largest democracy."" --Pankaj Mishra ""Essential reading for anyone who wants to know what is truly happening in India now."" --Yanis Varoufakis ""Compulsively readable...an unsettling indictment of Modi's India ... Shah has a gift for non-fiction narrative, the book is ...almost cinematic."" --Financial Times ""A comprehensive and accessible coverage of the Bhima-Koregaon case."" --Romila Thapar ""Alpa Shah's bold and illuminating book gives hope for democracy"" --�tienne Balibar ""Alpa Shah has done the ""free world"" an invaluable service with a meticulous and engaging work charting an Indian tragedy with ominous parallels and wider lessons"" --Shami Chakrabarti ""[A] must-read to understand the scale of the assault on democracy, not only in India, but around the world."" --Amy Goodman ""An in-depth, poignant biography of the Bhima-Koregaon accused"" --Christophe Jaffrelot ""[Alpa Shah's] report is necessary, brave, meticulous, harrowing and immensely humane."" --Harsh Mander ""Probably the most devastating, vital and awakening book you'll read this year."" --Preti Taneja"
"""A gripping and rigorous crime story about the murder of a once thriving democracy."" --Naomi Klein ""Alpa Shah's book is about the criminalisation and incarceration of dissent itself. It does us a great service."" --Arundhati Roy ""No finer account has been written yet about the collapse of the world's largest democracy."" --Pankaj Mishra ""Essential reading for anyone who wants to know what is truly happening in India now."" --Yanis Varoufakis ""A comprehensive and accessible coverage of the Bhima-Koregaon case."" --Romila Thapar ""Alpa Shah's bold and illuminating book gives hope for democracy"" --�tienne Balibar ""Alpa Shah has done the ""free world"" an invaluable service with a meticulous and engaging work charting an Indian tragedy with ominous parallels and wider lessons"" --Shami Chakrabarti ""[A] must-read to understand the scale of the assault on democracy, not only in India, but around the world."" --Amy Goodman ""An in-depth, poignant biography of the Bhima-Koregaon accused"" --Christophe Jaffrelot ""[Alpa Shah's] report is necessary, brave, meticulous, harrowing and immensely humane."" --Harsh Mander ""Probably the most devastating, vital and awakening book you'll read this year."" --Preti Taneja"
Author Information
Alpa Shah is the award-winning author of Nightmarch. She has written and presented for BBC Radio 4. She was raised in Nairobi and studied at the University of Cambridge and the London School of Economics, where she is now Professor of Anthropology. She will be the next Professor of Social Anthropology at All Souls College, Oxford from October 2024.
