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"""A gripping and rigorous crime story about the murder of a once thriving democracy."" --Naomi Klein ""Alpa Shah's book is about the criminalisation and incarceration of dissent itself. It does us a great service."" --Arundhati Roy ""No finer account has been written yet about the collapse of the world's largest democracy."" --Pankaj Mishra ""Essential reading for anyone who wants to know what is truly happening in India now."" --Yanis Varoufakis ""Compulsively readable...an unsettling indictment of Modi's India ... Shah has a gift for non-fiction narrative, the book is ...almost cinematic."" --Financial Times ""A comprehensive and accessible coverage of the Bhima-Koregaon case."" --Romila Thapar ""Alpa Shah's bold and illuminating book gives hope for democracy"" --�tienne Balibar ""Alpa Shah has done the ""free world"" an invaluable service with a meticulous and engaging work charting an Indian tragedy with ominous parallels and wider lessons"" --Shami Chakrabarti ""[A] must-read to understand the scale of the assault on democracy, not only in India, but around the world."" --Amy Goodman ""An in-depth, poignant biography of the Bhima-Koregaon accused"" --Christophe Jaffrelot ""[Alpa Shah's] report is necessary, brave, meticulous, harrowing and immensely humane."" --Harsh Mander ""Probably the most devastating, vital and awakening book you'll read this year."" --Preti Taneja"

"""A gripping and rigorous crime story about the murder of a once thriving democracy."" --Naomi Klein ""Alpa Shah's book is about the criminalisation and incarceration of dissent itself. It does us a great service."" --Arundhati Roy ""No finer account has been written yet about the collapse of the world's largest democracy."" --Pankaj Mishra ""Essential reading for anyone who wants to know what is truly happening in India now."" --Yanis Varoufakis ""A comprehensive and accessible coverage of the Bhima-Koregaon case."" --Romila Thapar ""Alpa Shah's bold and illuminating book gives hope for democracy"" --�tienne Balibar ""Alpa Shah has done the ""free world"" an invaluable service with a meticulous and engaging work charting an Indian tragedy with ominous parallels and wider lessons"" --Shami Chakrabarti ""[A] must-read to understand the scale of the assault on democracy, not only in India, but around the world."" --Amy Goodman ""An in-depth, poignant biography of the Bhima-Koregaon accused"" --Christophe Jaffrelot ""[Alpa Shah's] report is necessary, brave, meticulous, harrowing and immensely humane."" --Harsh Mander ""Probably the most devastating, vital and awakening book you'll read this year."" --Preti Taneja"

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Alpa Shah is the award-winning author of Nightmarch. She has written and presented for BBC Radio 4. She was raised in Nairobi and studied at the University of Cambridge and the London School of Economics, where she is now Professor of Anthropology. She will be the next Professor of Social Anthropology at All Souls College, Oxford from October 2024.

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