Alpa Shah

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]

  1. ^ "Professor Alpa Shah". School of Anthropology & Museum Ethnography. Retrieved 18 Nov 2024.
  2. ^ "Nightmarch by Alpa Shah – among India's Maoist guerrillas". the Guardian. September 12, 2018.
  3. ^ "Nightmarch: Among India's Revolutionary Guerrillas | The Orwell Foundation". www.orwellfoundation.com.
  4. ^ "alpashah, Author at New Statesman".
  5. ^ Shah, Alpa. "India's Aging Guerrillas Still Believe in the Struggle".
  6. ^ "Alpa Shah". The New York Review of Books.
  7. ^ "'We have a great deal to learn about nature, gender and joy from indigenous communities' - Times of India". The Times of India.
  8. ^ "The five truths about the migrant workers' crisis | Opinion". Hindustan Times. July 13, 2020.
  9. ^ "BBC Radio 4 - Crossing Continents, India's Red Belt". BBC.
  10. ^ Ram, Vidya (December 2, 2017). "An exhibition in London focuses on marginalised communities in India" – via www.thehindu.com.

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