Mainstream WeeklyNight March: A Journey into India’s Naxal Heartlands
by Alpa Shah
HarperCollins Publishers India; Pages: 327; Price: Rs 499
SHE lived for four and a half years as an anthropologist amidst India’s Adivasi people, with one long spell outside Naxalite strongholds and yet another within. But even Alpa Shah would not have imagined that her academic study will turn out to be a classic on Indian Maoists who spearhead the world’s longest-running armed revolutionary movement. Indeed, Night (…)
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