Professor Alpa Shah talks about her acclaimed book The Incarcerations at the Oxford Literary Festival
Professor of Social Anthropology Alpa Shah will discuss her book, The Incarcerations: BK-16 and the Search for Democracy in India with journalist Nick Higham at the Oxford Literary Festival on Thursday, 3 April 2025 at 2pm at the Weston Lecture Theatre.
The Incarcerations pulls back the curtain on Indian democracy to tell the remarkable and chilling story of the Bhima Koregaon case, in which 16 human rights defenders and intellectuals – professors, lawyers, journalists, poets – were imprisoned, without credible evidence and without trial. The book has been met with widespread acclaim in The Times, The Guardian, The Telegraph and Nature amongst others. It featured in the New Statesman ‘Books of the year 2024’ list and the Financial Times ‘What to read in 2024’ list and was named one of the top five books on Indian politics by The Guardian. The Incarcerations was also shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing 2024, marking Professor Shah’s second time as a finalist for this prestigious award, and the Moore Prize for Human Rights Writing.
At this event Professor Shah talks to journalist, Nick Higham who was the BBC’s first ever media correspondent and is a former presenter of Meet the Author on the BBC News Channel.
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