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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... father , be entitled to a hut of her own ? And what of a widow who had a place large enough to rent out a part to a tenant ? Should she get only a hut for herself and thereby lose her livelihood ? Sparc also involved women in planning ...
... father , be entitled to a hut of her own ? And what of a widow who had a place large enough to rent out a part to a tenant ? Should she get only a hut for herself and thereby lose her livelihood ? Sparc also involved women in planning ...
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... father as prime minister . When the Emer- gency ended , and Mrs Gandhi was temporarily swept from power , the human and civil rights movement was reborn . Now every major Indian city has at least one , and sometimes two or three groups ...
... father as prime minister . When the Emer- gency ended , and Mrs Gandhi was temporarily swept from power , the human and civil rights movement was reborn . Now every major Indian city has at least one , and sometimes two or three groups ...
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... father had died . His mother was also educated and his sister was in school , but on the day they were supposed to come to court they didn't turn up , so we could not prosecute either the hospital or the doctors , even 34 Averting the ...
... father had died . His mother was also educated and his sister was in school , but on the day they were supposed to come to court they didn't turn up , so we could not prosecute either the hospital or the doctors , even 34 Averting the ...
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... father , Kaifi Azmi , is a Communist poet , and Shabana is best known for her films of social consciousness , but she never before had used her fame to play a real - life role . When she appeared and sat down near work- ers with dirty ...
... father , Kaifi Azmi , is a Communist poet , and Shabana is best known for her films of social consciousness , but she never before had used her fame to play a real - life role . When she appeared and sat down near work- ers with dirty ...
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... father , Jan Bahadur , was both a retired policeman and a mem- ber of an evangelical Christian group . There is a long - established trade in Nepali girls kidnapped for the Bombay brothels , and when the girls disappeared , Jan Bahadur ...
... father , Jan Bahadur , was both a retired policeman and a mem- ber of an evangelical Christian group . There is a long - established trade in Nepali girls kidnapped for the Bombay brothels , and when the girls disappeared , Jan Bahadur ...
المحتوى
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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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