Windows into a Revolution

Alpa Shah is Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her research focuses on social inequality and efforts to address it and she has commented on indigeneity, environmentalism, migration, development, corruption, democracy, citizenship and the state. She is co-editor (with Tobias Kelly) of A Double Edged Sword: Protection and State Violence (2006) and author of In the Shadows of the State: Indigenous Politics, Environmentalism and Insurgency, Jharkhand (2010).Judith Pettigrew is Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Education and Health Sciences at the University of Limerick, Ireland. She has conducted long-term anthropological research in Nepal since 1990 and has published widely on Nepal’s Maoist movement. Her research on the everyday impacts of violence on rural people examines the interrelationships between space, emotional life, violence and psychosocial wellbeing. Her forthcoming monograph is titled, Ethnography and Everyday Life in Nepal’s Civil War.

• 1. Windows in to a Revolution: Ethnographies of Maoism in India and Nepal — Alpa Shah and Judith Pettigrew2. In Search of Certainty in Revolutionary India — Alpa Shah3. The Formation of Political Consciousness in Rural Nepal —Sara Shneiderman4. Smouldering Dalit Fires in Bihar — George Kunnath5. Reflections of a One-time Maoist Activist — Sumanta Banerjee6. Radical Masculinity: Morality, Sociality and Relationships through Recollections of Naxalite Activists — Henrike Donner7. Women’s Empowerment and Rural Revolution: Rethinking "Failed Development" —Lauren G. Leve8. From Ancestral Conflicts to Local Empowerment: Two Narratives from a Nep alese Community —Anne de Sales9. Terror in a Maoist Model Village in Mid-western Nepal —Marie Lecomte -Tilouine10. Fear and Everyday Life in Rural Nepal —Judith Pettigrew with Kamal Adhikari11. Anti-‘anti-witchcraft’ and the Maoist Insurgency in Rural Maharashtra —Amit Desai12. The Purification Hunt: The Salwa Judum Counterinsurgency in Chhattisgarh —Jason Miklian13. The Social Fabric of the Jelbang Killings — Deepak Thapa, Kiyoko Ogura and Judith Pettigrew