About the Book: Incarcerations : Bhima Koregaon & The Search For Democracy In
India
The world's largest democracy is facing the greatest challenge since the end of
British colonial rule in 1947.
The Incarcerations 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.
Alpa 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