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The Incarcerations : Bhima Koregaon and the Search for Democracy in India

By Alpa Shah

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About the book

The Incarcerations pulls back the curtain on Indian democracy to tell the remarkable and chilling story of the Bhima Koregaon case, in which sixteen human rights defenders-professors, lawyers, journalists, poets-have been imprisoned, without credible evidence and without trial, as Maoist terrorists.

Alpa Shah unravels how these alleged terrorists were charged with inciting violence at a new year’s day commemoration in 2018, accused of waging a war against the Indian state and of plotting to kill the Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi. Expertly leading us through the case, Shah exposes some of the world’s most shocking revelations of cyber warfare research, which show not only the hacking of emails and mobile phones of the accused, but also implantation of the electronic evidence that was used to incarcerate them. Through the life histories of the ‘incarcerated’, Shah dives deep into the issues they fought for and tells the story of India’s three main minorities-Adivasis, 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 multipronged, coordinated attack on key defenders of various pillars of democracy. In so doing, Shah shows that democracy today must be not only about protecting the freedom of expression and democratic institutions, but also about supporting and safeguarding the social movements that question our global inequalities.

Pages: 600

Available in: Hardback

Language: English

Alpa Shah

ALPA SHAH is the award-winning author of Nightmarch and In the Shadows of the State, and the co-author of Ground Down by Growth. She has written and presented for BBC Radio 4’s Crossing Continents and From Our Own Correspondent. She was raised in Nairobi, and studied at Cambridge and the London School of Economics, where she is now professor of anthropology.

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