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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Social Movements in India Today Arthur Bonner. Sunita Narain : An Environmental Activist Sunita Narain , coeditor of a four - hundred - page report on the state of the environment in India and codirector of the Center for Science and ...
Social Movements in India Today Arthur Bonner. Sunita Narain : An Environmental Activist Sunita Narain , coeditor of a four - hundred - page report on the state of the environment in India and codirector of the Center for Science and ...
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Social Movements in India Today Arthur Bonner. Examining the Process , Nat Searching far Solutions There is no way of knowing if social movements in India can be trans- lated into a coherent political formation able to solve the ...
Social Movements in India Today Arthur Bonner. Examining the Process , Nat Searching far Solutions There is no way of knowing if social movements in India can be trans- lated into a coherent political formation able to solve the ...
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Social Movements in India Today Arthur Bonner. the constant splintering of political parties and the rapid changes of personalities in state and central governments . India lacks what de Tocqueville envisioned as an abstract force more ...
Social Movements in India Today Arthur Bonner. the constant splintering of political parties and the rapid changes of personalities in state and central governments . India lacks what de Tocqueville envisioned as an abstract force more ...
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... India self - sufficient in wheat and rice , but these cereals are con- sumed almost entirely by those with above - average incomes and most of the higher income from increased yields went to large and medium landholders who could afford ...
... India self - sufficient in wheat and rice , but these cereals are con- sumed almost entirely by those with above - average incomes and most of the higher income from increased yields went to large and medium landholders who could afford ...
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... India . There are tens of thousands of castes . These are often called subcastes , but that term is inexact : a misnomer to take cognizance of the differ- ence between the Indian terms Varna ( literally , color : commonly trans- lated ...
... India . There are tens of thousands of castes . These are often called subcastes , but that term is inexact : a misnomer to take cognizance of the differ- ence between the Indian terms Varna ( literally , color : commonly trans- lated ...
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7 Devadasis and Hijras | 52 |
8 Female Feticide | 58 |
29 The Role of Activists | 206 |
30 Nonviolent Melodrama | 217 |
31 Journalism and Its Perils | 228 |
32 We Have a Dream | 240 |
33 Myths and Identity | 249 |
34 The Front Paw of the Revolution | 258 |
35 From Revolt to Renewal | 267 |
36 A Civilization That Doesnt Work | 272 |
9 The Goddess of Food | 71 |
10 Tribal India | 81 |
11 A Truck and Some Cows | 85 |
12 Creating a New Revolutionary Class | 92 |
13 The Mutiny of the Innocents | 100 |
14 Save the Western Ghats | 106 |
15 The Wandering Charcoal Makers | 111 |
16 The Failure of Charisma | 120 |
17 The Golana Massacre | 126 |
18 Temples and Toilets | 133 |
19 A Museum of Living Fossils | 141 |
20 Temples or Tombs? | 149 |
21 Pragmatic Activists | 153 |
22 Population and Sterilization | 158 |
23 A Model for Community Health | 164 |
24 Working for Women | 170 |
25 Slaves of Sabarmati | 178 |
26 The Rape of Guntaben | 184 |
27 The Mystic Dancer | 192 |
Blindings and Massacres | 196 |
37 Death by Encounter | 280 |
38 A Village Confrontation | 288 |
39 A Man with Faith in India | 298 |
40 Broken Promises Broken Children | 308 |
41 The Little Carpet Makers | 315 |
42 The Little Match Girls | 322 |
43 Riddles of Hinduism | 331 |
44 The Conversions at Meenakshipuram | 344 |
45 Manipulating Myths and Symbols | 352 |
46 The Juggernaut Claims Its Victims | 362 |
47 The Politics of Passion | 377 |
48 The Fiery Swami | 395 |
49 The Triumph of Gandhis Assassin | 404 |
50 Averting the Apocalypse | 410 |
Glossary | 417 |
Notes | 427 |
Bibliography | 451 |
Index | 457 |
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