Alpa Shah

Alpa Shah (born 1976) is a British social anthropologist and writer specialising in South Asia. She is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oxford, and author of the award-winning ''Nightmarch: Among India’s Revolutionary Guerrillas,'' a finalist for the 2019 Orwell Prize for Political Writing. Shah has written for newspapers and magazines in the UK, US and India, including the ''New Statesman'', ''Foreign Policy'', ''New York Review of Books'', ''The Times of India'' and ''Hindustan Times''. Shah has also made a radio documentary on ‘India’s Red Belt’ for BBC Radio 4 Crossing Continents, reported for BBC Radio 4's From Our Own Correspondent, and co-curated a major photographic exhibition 'Behind the Indian Boom'. Provided by Wikipedia