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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... someone is born to be a priest is not a good society . Why does someone say ' I'm Brahmin , he's a Chamar ? ' We're against the entire system : there should be no Brahmin , Sudra , or Chamar . We're against the purohit ( Brahmin priest ) ...
... someone is born to be a priest is not a good society . Why does someone say ' I'm Brahmin , he's a Chamar ? ' We're against the entire system : there should be no Brahmin , Sudra , or Chamar . We're against the purohit ( Brahmin priest ) ...
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... Someone said , ' We'll write there's no water here ! But then I asked , ' Is that enough ? Don't we also have to ... someone to write , but where is the paper ? ' They had none . I said , ' OK , you bring the paper . ' It took them two ...
... Someone said , ' We'll write there's no water here ! But then I asked , ' Is that enough ? Don't we also have to ... someone to write , but where is the paper ? ' They had none . I said , ' OK , you bring the paper . ' It took them two ...
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... someone began dialing a phone , over and over , trying to get a connection that was not a wrong number . Finally , he got through to the right person only to be told they had not heard of the arrangement but would send someone to find ...
... someone began dialing a phone , over and over , trying to get a connection that was not a wrong number . Finally , he got through to the right person only to be told they had not heard of the arrangement but would send someone to find ...
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A Longing for Freedom | 1 |
A Missed Tryst | 8 |
The Rich and the Poor | 19 |
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