Nightmarch

Anthropologist Alpa Shah offers a rare, immersive account of India’s Naxalite guerrilla movement, based on months spent living clandestinely among its members. Nightmarch combines ethnographic detail with political analysis, revealing the motivations, contradictions, and personal costs of revolutionary struggle. Shah writes with empathy and nuance, avoiding romanticisation while highlighting the structural injustices that drive insurgency. The book is vivid, revelatory, and deeply human, offering insight into a conflict rarely understood from the inside. It is a powerful testament to the complexities of rebellion and state power.