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Please note: this talk will not be recorded, nor hybrid. It will be an in person only talk.
Registration closes at midday on Wednesday 29 April. The Teams link will be sent to you that afternoon.
In this talk, Professor Alpa Shah will explore the legal implications of her recent book, The Incarcerations: BK-16 and the Search for Democracy in India. Focusing on the case of sixteen intellectual-activists imprisoned under India’s anti-terror laws—amid mounting evidence that they were wrongfully implicated—Shah examines the troubling intersection of law, state power, and political dissent. Through this lens, she traces the broader rise of authoritarianism in India, raising critical questions about due process, the misuse of legal frameworks, and the erosion of democratic protections.
ALPA SHAH is the Professor of Social Anthropology at Oxford, with a Fellowship at All Souls College. She is a twice-finalist for The Orwell Prize for Political Writing for her 2018 book Nightmarch: Among India’s Revolutionary Guerrillas and her 2024 book The Incarcerations: BK-16 and the Search for Democracy in India.
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