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The Incarcerations
Publisher:
Harpercollins India
| Author:
Alpa Shah
| Language:
English
| Format:
Paperback
Publisher:
Harpercollins India
Author:
Alpa Shah
Language:
English
Format:
Paperback
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Category Politics/Government
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The Incarcerations pulls back the curtain on Indian democracy to tell the remarkable and chilling story of the Bhima Koregaon case, in which sixteen human rights defenders (the BK-16)-professors, lawyers, journalists, poets-have been imprisoned, without credible evidence and without trial, as Maoist terrorists.
Alpa Shah unravels how these alleged terrorists were charged with inciting violence at a commemoration in 2018, accused of waging a war against the Indian state and plotting to kill Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Expertly leading us through the case,Shah exposes some of the world’s most shocking revelations of yber warfare research, which show not only the hacking of emails and mobile phones of the BK-16, but also implantation of the electronic evidence that was used to incarcerate them.
Through the life histories of the BK-16, Shah dives deep into the issues they fought for and tells the story of India’s three main minorities-Adivasi, Dalits and Muslims-and what the search for democracy entails for them. Essential and urgent, The Incarcerations reveals how this case is a bellwether for the collapse of democracy in India, as for the first time in the nation’s history there is a multipronged, coordinated attack on key defenders of various pillars of democracy. In so doing, Shah shows that democracy today must be not only about protecting the freedom of expression and democratic institutions, but also about supporting and safeguarding the social movements that question our global inequalities
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The Incarcerations pulls back the curtain on Indian democracy to tell the remarkable and chilling story of the Bhima Koregaon case, in which sixteen human rights defenders (the BK-16)-professors, lawyers, journalists, poets-have been imprisoned, without credible evidence and without trial, as Maoist terrorists.
Alpa Shah unravels how these alleged terrorists were charged with inciting violence at a commemoration in 2018, accused of waging a war against the Indian state and plotting to kill Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Expertly leading us through the case,Shah exposes some of the world’s most shocking revelations of yber warfare research, which show not only the hacking of emails and mobile phones of the BK-16, but also implantation of the electronic evidence that was used to incarcerate them.
Through the life histories of the BK-16, Shah dives deep into the issues they fought for and tells the story of India’s three main minorities-Adivasi, Dalits and Muslims-and what the search for democracy entails for them. Essential and urgent, The Incarcerations reveals how this case is a bellwether for the collapse of democracy in India, as for the first time in the nation’s history there is a multipronged, coordinated attack on key defenders of various pillars of democracy. In so doing, Shah shows that democracy today must be not only about protecting the freedom of expression and democratic institutions, but also about supporting and safeguarding the social movements that question our global inequalities
About Author
ALPA SHAH is the award-winning author of Nightmarch and In the Shadows of the State, and the co-author of Ground Down by Growth. She has written and presented for BBC Radio 4's Crossing Continents and From Our Own Correspondent. She was raised in Nairobi, and studied at Cambridge and the London School of Economics, where she is now professor of anthropology.
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