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Nightmarch: Among India’s Revolutionary Guerillas
by Alpa Shah
(Hurst, £20)
FOR decades the Naxalites, a movement made up of middle-class, well-educated revolutionaries and the poor, have been engaged in a long struggle against the highly militarised Indian state and its policy of exploitation and discrimination against the Munda Adivasi people.
Alpa Shah's Nightmarch is a fascinating insight into a war going on in one of the world’s largest democracies and she literally went out in the field to research it. In the remote forests and hills of Jharkhand in India, she lived with the tribal people in a village of mud houses with no electricity or running water.
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