An uprising and its discontents

Dr Murphy is professor of human rights and contemporary slavery at the Helena Kennedy Centre for International Justice at Sheffield Hallam University in the UK

Azad Nagar: The Story of a 21st-Century Slave Revolt

Author: Laura T Murphy

Publisher: HarperCollins

Pages: 145

Price: Rs 299

Laura T Murphy’s latest book Azad Nagar: The Story of a 21st-Century Slave Revolt justifies the idiom “big things come in small packages”.

Not only does this slim volume help unpack several layers of class and caste conflicts playing for eons in the country but also sheds light on the institutional corruption that has only exacerbated the problem in recent years after the government-backed entry of multimillion rupee mining companies in India’s most mineral-rich regions. 

Dr Murphy is professor of human rights and contemporary slavery at the Helena