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037			_cPurchased _nCurrent Books,Cochin
041			_aEnglish
082			_a324.254075 _bALP
100			_aAlpa Shah
245			_aNIGHTMARCH : Journey Into Indias Naxal Heartland
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260			_aUP _bHarpercollins _c2018/01/01
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500			_aIn 2010, just as the Indian government was stepping up its counter insurgency operations in the countrys Naxal - affected areas, Alpa Shah set out on a seven-night march with a guerrilla platoon across 250 kilometres of the same territory. An anthropology professor, she wanted to understand why, against the backdrop of a shiny new India, the countrys poor had shunned the worlds largest democracy and united with revolutionary ideologues. Dressed as a man in an olive-green guerrilla uniform, Alpa was the only woman and the only person not carrying a gun in the platoon. Her gritty journey reveals how and why people from very different backgrounds come together to take up arms to change the world but also what makes them fall apart. Unfolding like a thriller and brought to life by Alpas years of research and immersion into the daily lives of the tribal communities in a Naxal stronghold, Nightmarch is a reflection on economic growth, rising inequality, dispossession and conflict at the heart of contemporary India......
650			_aTravel
650			_aIndia
650			_aPolitics and government
650			_aAdivasis -- Naxalites
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