Nightmarch: Among India’s Revolutionary Guerrillas

Anthropologist Alpa Shah found herself in an active platoon of Naxalites—one of the longest running guerrilla insurgencies in the word. The only woman, and the only person without a weapon, she walked alongside the militants for seven nights across 150 miles of the dense, hilly forests of eastern India. Nightmarch is the riveting story of Shah’s journey, grounded in her years of living with India’s tribal people, an eye-opening exploration of the movement’s history and future and a powerful contemplation on how disadvantaged people fight back against unjust systems in today’s world.
 
The Naxalites have fought for a communist society for the past fifty years, caught in a conflict that has so far claimed at least forty thousand lives. Yet surprisingly little is known about these fighters in the West. Framed by the Indian state as a deadly terrorist group, the movement is actually made up of Marxist ideologues and lower-caste and tribal combatants, all of whom seek to overthrow a system that has abused them for decades. In Nightmarch, Shah shares some of their gritty untold stories: a high-caste leader who had been underground for almost thirty years, a young Adivasi foot soldier, and an Adivasi youth who defected. Speaking with them and living for years with villagers in guerrilla strongholds, Shah has sought to understand why some of India’s poor have shunned the world’s largest democracy and taken up arms to fight for a fairer society—and asks whether they might be undermining their own aims. 
 
By shining a light on this largely ignored corner of the world, Shah raises important questions about the uncaring advance of capitalism and offers a compelling reflection on dispossession and conflict at the heart of contemporary India.
 

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