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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... temple . Men had to plow the temple land , for which they got a meal , and women ( who normally did not wear a bodice ) cleaned the temple and surround- ing area while wearing the upper portion of their saris tied at their hips , just ...
... temple . Men had to plow the temple land , for which they got a meal , and women ( who normally did not wear a bodice ) cleaned the temple and surround- ing area while wearing the upper portion of their saris tied at their hips , just ...
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... Temple in Katmandu and ended at the Rameswaram Temple in Tamil Nadu at the southern tip of India . A second made the north - south journey along another route , from the pilgrimage center of Hardwar in the foothills of the Himalayas to ...
... Temple in Katmandu and ended at the Rameswaram Temple in Tamil Nadu at the southern tip of India . A second made the north - south journey along another route , from the pilgrimage center of Hardwar in the foothills of the Himalayas to ...
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... Temple . In a two - day attack code - named Operation Bluestar , the Akal Takht and the Parikrama ( the marbled corridor surrounding the sacred tank with its gold - domed temple in the center ) were both heavily damaged . Some bullets ...
... Temple . In a two - day attack code - named Operation Bluestar , the Akal Takht and the Parikrama ( the marbled corridor surrounding the sacred tank with its gold - domed temple in the center ) were both heavily damaged . Some bullets ...
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A Longing for Freedom | 1 |
A Missed Tryst | 8 |
The Rich and the Poor | 19 |
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