Alpa Shah is a British social anthropologist and writer specialising in South Asia. She is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oxford,[1] and author of the award-winning Nightmarch: Among India’s Revolutionary Guerrillas,[2] a finalist for the 2019 Orwell Prize for Political Writing.[3] Shah has written for newspapers and magazines in the UK, US and India, including the New Statesman,[4] Foreign Policy,[5] New York Review of Books,[6] The Times of India[7] and Hindustan Times.[8] Shah has also made a radio documentary on ‘India’s Red Belt’ for BBC Radio 4 Crossing Continents,[9] reported for BBC Radio 4's From Our Own Correspondent, and co-curated a major photographic exhibition 'Behind the Indian Boom'.[10]