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<div style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><div align="center"><i><br>You are invited to a seminar by Professor Alpa Shah</i><br><br><i><font size="5"><span>Forest Notes on the Maoists</span></font></i></div>
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<div align="center"></div></span></font><font size="5"><div style="text-align:center">Sunday, April 1, 2012</div></font></div>
<div align="center"><font size="5">Time: 4:00PM</font></div>
<div align="center"><font size="5">Room: MIT 3-133</font></div>
<div align="center"><br>Bio: Alpa Shah is a social anthropologist at Goldsmiths, University of London. She is interested in inequality and efforts to address it. She has drawn on more than a decade of field research in India to explore how marginalised people experience indigenous rights activism and Adivasi politics; poverty, the developmental state and corruption; seasonal casual labour migration and transformations in the agrarian economy; the state, education and positive action policies; and the radical left and emancipatory politics, notably the Maoist movement. She is the author of <a href="http://www.dukeupress.edu/Catalog/ViewProduct.php?productid=16856" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><i>In the Shadows of the State: Indigenous Politics, Environmentalism and Insurgency in Jharkhand, India</i></a>. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2010. </div>
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<div align="center"><font>Sponsored by: <br><br>The South Asia Forum at MIT<br><a href="http://sanhati.com/" target="_blank">sanhati.com</a><br>The Alliance for a Secular and Democratic South Asia<br></font><font>(<a href="http://www.southasialliance.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.southasialliance.org</a>)<br>
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