Alpa Shah

Alpa Shah is Professor of Social Anthropology at the London School of Economics. She has written and presented for BBC Radio 4 Crossing Continents and is the award-winning author of Nightmarch: Among India’s Revolutionary Guerrillas. She also co-authored Ground Down by Growth: Tribe, Caste, Class and Inequality in 21st Century India, a 2018 Book of the Year for the Hindu, which draws on a major research programme she led on inequality and poverty that explodes the myth of trickle-down economics. Her latest book, The Incarcerations has garnered acclaim in, amongst others, The Times, New Statesman, Telegraph and Nature.