Alpa Shah: 4 books
Nightmarch
Among India’s Revolutionary Guerrillas
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2019
Anthropologist Alpa Shah found herself in an active platoon of Naxalites—one of the longest-running guerrilla insurgencies in the world. The only woman, and the only person without a weapon, she walked alongside the militants for seven nights across 150 miles of dense, hilly forests in eastern India....
In the Shadows of the State
Indigenous Politics, Environmentalism, and Insurgency in Jharkhand, India
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2010
In the Shadows of the State suggests that well-meaning indigenous rights and development claims and interventions may misrepresent and hurt the very people they intend to help. It is a powerful critique based on extensive ethnographic research in Jharkhand, a state in eastern India officially created...
Ground Down by Growth
Tribe, Caste, Class and Inequality in 21st Century India
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
Why has India’s astonishing economic growth not reached the people at the bottom of its social and economic hierarchy? Travelling the length and breadth of the subcontinent, this book shows how India’s ‘untouchables' and ‘tribals' fit into the global economy. *BR**BR*India’s Dalit and Adivasi...
The Brain Buddies
Right Brain Stimulation Activities (0-6Years)
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
According to the left brain, right brain dominance theory, the right side of the brain is best at expressive and creative tasks. Six special abilities that a Genius Right Brain Trained child exhibits are: a) Superb Intuition, b) Photographic Memory, c) Calculation Ability, d) Perfect Pitch Music Ability,...