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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... ment sustain more and more free - ranging cattle ? For his own sake the Maldari must not move around as in the past . " As for the Narmada Project , people are concerned about the trib- als , and I agree with them . If tribal land is ...
... ment sustain more and more free - ranging cattle ? For his own sake the Maldari must not move around as in the past . " As for the Narmada Project , people are concerned about the trib- als , and I agree with them . If tribal land is ...
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... ment here is not antiman : it's concerned with such things as employ- ment and police harassment . " SEWA is India's foremost women's organization . I asked Renana what it plans to do next . For instance , would it enter politics and ...
... ment here is not antiman : it's concerned with such things as employ- ment and police harassment . " SEWA is India's foremost women's organization . I asked Renana what it plans to do next . For instance , would it enter politics and ...
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... ment of food grains out of Punjab and that gave Mrs Gandhi the excuse to mobilize troops to surround and isolate Amritsar . On June 5 she unleashed heavily armed assault forces to seize the Golden Temple . In a two - day attack code ...
... ment of food grains out of Punjab and that gave Mrs Gandhi the excuse to mobilize troops to surround and isolate Amritsar . On June 5 she unleashed heavily armed assault forces to seize the Golden Temple . In a two - day attack code ...
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A Longing for Freedom | 1 |
A Missed Tryst | 8 |
The Rich and the Poor | 19 |
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