Averting the Apocalypse: Social Movements in India TodayDuke University Press, 20/02/1990 - 476 من الصفحات There are two Indias: the caste and class elite who hold all power and make up 10 to 15 percent of the population, and everyone else. Averting the Apocalypse is about everyone else. Arthur Bonner, a former New York Times reporter with long experience as a foreign correspondent in Asia, conducted interviews over many months while traveling almost 20,000 miles within India seeking out the underclass and social activists who together are beginning to mobilize for social change at the bottom of Indian society. Working in areas torn by violence, Bonner offers a terrifyingly accurate portrait of a society bloodied by decades of unequal social structure and the absence of a civil society and political mechanism capable of responding to the exploitation of the poor and weak. Bonner finds that India’s inability or refusal to address its debilitating social structure may be the precursor to an apocalyptic social upheaval unless heed is paid to the social movements that his first-hand investigation reveals. |
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... four policeman - that was virtually proved by the CBI report — and produced a 110 page indictment of the police and civil administration . They named eight persons as party to a conspiracy " to save the four guilty policemen from being ...
... four policeman - that was virtually proved by the CBI report — and produced a 110 page indictment of the police and civil administration . They named eight persons as party to a conspiracy " to save the four guilty policemen from being ...
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... four hundred rupees would have to give the money out of their own pockets and would also have to pay a fine of eight hundred rupees . " " What did you have to say on this ? " I asked . " Nothing . The whole night I spoke only four or ...
... four hundred rupees would have to give the money out of their own pockets and would also have to pay a fine of eight hundred rupees . " " What did you have to say on this ? " I asked . " Nothing . The whole night I spoke only four or ...
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... four people were taken to a distance of fifty feet and tied to trees by ropes from foot to chest , with the handcuffs on . A black cloth was tied over my eyes . The other four were also blindfolded . I heard the s.p. di- recting to fire ...
... four people were taken to a distance of fifty feet and tied to trees by ropes from foot to chest , with the handcuffs on . A black cloth was tied over my eyes . The other four were also blindfolded . I heard the s.p. di- recting to fire ...
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A Longing for Freedom | 1 |
A Missed Tryst | 8 |
The Rich and the Poor | 19 |
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