“The Incarcerations: BK-16 and the Fight for Justice and Democracy in Modern India”
Shah’s lecture is based on her forthcoming book The Incarcerations: BK16 and the Search for Democracy in India, which examines the 2018 violence and arrests of 16 human rights defenders (the BK-16)—professors, lawyers, journalists, and poets—who were labeled as Maoist terrorist and accused of inciting violence and plotting against Indian prime minister Narendra Modi. Liu Institute faculty fellow Aidan Seale-Feldman, assistant professor of anthropology, will moderate.
The Justice and Asia Distinguished Lecture is co-sponsored by Notre Dame’s Department of Anthropology and the Liu Institute’s South Asia Group.
The lecture and following reception is free and open to the public.
Originally published by the Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies.