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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... nonviolent principles as meaningful for the nuclear age , Indian activists do not look to him for moral inspi- ration . The West sees Gandhi in terms of his abstract teachings , while modern Indians who are determined to change society ...
... nonviolent principles as meaningful for the nuclear age , Indian activists do not look to him for moral inspi- ration . The West sees Gandhi in terms of his abstract teachings , while modern Indians who are determined to change society ...
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Social Movements in India Today Arthur Bonner. 30 Nonviolent Melodrama arrived , as usual without notice , at the combination office and home of a man I knew only as a name : Raghupati . I was told he was devoted to nonviolence and had ...
Social Movements in India Today Arthur Bonner. 30 Nonviolent Melodrama arrived , as usual without notice , at the combination office and home of a man I knew only as a name : Raghupati . I was told he was devoted to nonviolence and had ...
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... nonviolent resistance . The scene was Guru - ka - Bagh ( Guru's Garden ) , a small shrine twelve miles from Amritsar built to mark a visit of Guru Arjun . It began when some Akalis cut down a tree on land adjoining the gurdwara for use ...
... nonviolent resistance . The scene was Guru - ka - Bagh ( Guru's Garden ) , a small shrine twelve miles from Amritsar built to mark a visit of Guru Arjun . It began when some Akalis cut down a tree on land adjoining the gurdwara for use ...
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A Longing for Freedom | 1 |
A Missed Tryst | 8 |
The Rich and the Poor | 19 |
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