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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... workers , dock workers , and headload carriers ; 21 percent were small traders of edible goods or petty consumer items like purses and cheap clothing ; 14 percent were self- employed , such as barbers , tailors , and paper and rag ...
... workers , dock workers , and headload carriers ; 21 percent were small traders of edible goods or petty consumer items like purses and cheap clothing ; 14 percent were self- employed , such as barbers , tailors , and paper and rag ...
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... workers , who origi- nally were their colleagues , " Prema explained . " When textile workers come from their villages to a big city like Bombay , they leave their fami- lies behind and rent a bed in a chawl . But they still need food ...
... workers , who origi- nally were their colleagues , " Prema explained . " When textile workers come from their villages to a big city like Bombay , they leave their fami- lies behind and rent a bed in a chawl . But they still need food ...
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... workers of their rights , the Mukadams ( subcontractors ) threatened they would be fired and evicted from their huts if they were seen talking to outsiders . A Death Releases Hidden Springs In September 1984 there was an accident at the ...
... workers of their rights , the Mukadams ( subcontractors ) threatened they would be fired and evicted from their huts if they were seen talking to outsiders . A Death Releases Hidden Springs In September 1984 there was an accident at the ...
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A Longing for Freedom | 1 |
A Missed Tryst | 8 |
The Rich and the Poor | 19 |
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