Alpa Shah. The Incarcerations: BK-16 and the Search for Democracy in India

After critically examining the socio-political inequalities that drive marginalized populations to take up arms against the state (2018), Alpa Shah expands her inquiry of state overreach in The Incarcerations: BK-16 and the Search for Democracy in India. Turning her ethnographic attention from the forests to the courts and prisons, Shah interrogates the authoritarian turn of the Indian state under the right-wing regime of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The Incarcerations focuses on the Bhima ...