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Professor Alpa Shah

Professor Alpa Shah

III Research Theme Convenor

International Inequalities Institute

Languages
English
Key Expertise
India and Nepal, revolution, indigeneity, race and class, anthropology

About me

Alpa was raised in Nairobi, read Geography at Cambridge and completed her PhD in Anthropology at the ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳, where she now teaches in the Department of Anthropology. She leads on the ‘Global Economies of Care’research theme at the ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ International Inequalities Institute.

Alpa is author of , winner of the 2020 Association for Political and Legal Anthropology Prize, shortlisted for the 2019 Orwell Prize for Political Writing and the New India Foundation Book Prize, and longlisted for the Tata Literature Live non-fiction book award. She is also the author of  and co-author of .

Alpa has reported for BBC Radio 4 and the World Service on several occasions, including presenting and recording the radio documentary ‘India’s Red Belt’ for Crossing Continents. She has also co-curated a major photo exhibition, ‘Behind the Indian Boom’.

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Expertise Details

India and Nepal; Political and Economic Anthropology; The State; Citizenship and Revolutionary Struggle; Indigeneity; Ethnicity; Caste and Class; Agrarian Transitions and Labour; Inequality and Poverty