{"product_id":"zxog0n7sj53r","title":"The Incarcerations: Bhima Koregaon and the Search for Democracy in India by Alpa Shah [Paperback]","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eThe world's largest democracy is facing\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ethe greatest challenge since the end of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eBritish colonial rule in 1947.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Incarcerations\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e pulls back the curtain on Indian democracy to tell the remarkable and chilling story of the Bhima Koregaon case, in which sixteen human rights defenders (the BK-16)-professors, lawyers, journalists, poets-have been imprisoned, without credible evidence and without trial, as Maoist terrorists.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAlpa Shah unravels how these alleged terrorists were charged with inciting violence at a commemoration in 2018, accused of waging a war against the Indian state and plotting to kill Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Expertly leading us through the case, Shah exposes some of the world's most shocking revelations of cyber warfare research, which show not only the hacking of emails and mobile phones of the BK-16, but also implantation of the electronic evidence that was used to incarcerate them.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThrough the life histories of the BK-16, Shah dives deep into the issues they fought for and tells the story of India's three main minorities-Adivasi, Dalits and Muslims-and what the search for democracy entails for them.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEssential and urgent, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Incarcerations\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e reveals how this case is a bellwether for the collapse of democracy in India, as for the first time in the nation's history there is a multipronged, coordinated attack on key defenders of various pillars of democracy. In so doing, Shah shows that democracy today must be not only about protecting the freedom of expression and democratic institutions, but also about supporting and safeguarding the social movements that question our global inequalities.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48328264941818,"sku":"ZXOG0N7SJ53R","price":510.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0704\/0473\/5226\/files\/ZXOG0N7SJ53R_1.jpg?v=1747239314","url":"https:\/\/versoz.co.in\/products\/zxog0n7sj53r","provider":"VERSOZ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}