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**Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize** **Shortlisted for the New India Foundation Book Prize** 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. __Nightmarch__is the riveting story of Shah's journey, grounded in her years of living with India’s tribal people, an eye-opening exploration of the movement’s history and futureand a powerful contemplation of how disadvantaged people fight back against unjust systems in today’s world. The Naxalites have fought for a communist society for the past fifty years, caught in a conflict that has so far claimed at least forty thousand lives. Yet surprisingly little is known about these fighters in the West. Framed by the Indian state as a deadly terrorist group, the movement is actually made up of Marxist ideologues and lower-caste and tribal combatants, all of whom seek to overthrow a system that has abused them for decades. In __Nightmarch__, Shah shares some of their gritty untold stories: here we

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Author

Alpa Shah, Alpa Shah

Publisher

The University of Chicago Press

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9780226590479

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Social Science, Social_sciences