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Alpa Shah

Alpa Shah is Associate Professor (Reader) in Anthropology at LSE. She is the author of Ground Down by Growth (Pluto, 2017) and In the Shadows of the State, Indigenous Politics, Environmentalism and Insurgency in Jharkhand, India (Duke, 2010). She has also written about affirmative action, labour migration, agrarian change and India and Nepal's Maoist inspired revolutionary struggles.

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Ground Down by Growth

Ground Down by Growth

Tribe, Caste, Class and Inequality in 21st Century India

Alpa Shah

How do India’s ‘untouchables’ and 'tribals' fit into the global economy?
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