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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... ment , may be appointed as a district ( the equivalent of an American county ) collector . As such , he will be the highest civil authority and also have control of the police and , as a magistrate , hold judicial author- ity too ...
... ment , may be appointed as a district ( the equivalent of an American county ) collector . As such , he will be the highest civil authority and also have control of the police and , as a magistrate , hold judicial author- ity too ...
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... ment , and get you a new job . We say , ' How can we creatively develop finance that you can generate and which is your right under the na- tional scheme . We're negotiating with banks for people who are form- ing societies to build ...
... ment , and get you a new job . We say , ' How can we creatively develop finance that you can generate and which is your right under the na- tional scheme . We're negotiating with banks for people who are form- ing societies to build ...
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... ment is planning high - rise buildings with four one - room apartments per floor . You know what will happen : rich people will buy the four rooms , knock down the walls or put in doors , and have the kind of space they're used to . We ...
... ment is planning high - rise buildings with four one - room apartments per floor . You know what will happen : rich people will buy the four rooms , knock down the walls or put in doors , and have the kind of space they're used to . We ...
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... ment . They also thought people who offered to help might be attempt- ing to dupe them . " Ultimately , we found a young engineer whose father had died . His mother was also educated and his sister was in school , but on the day they ...
... ment . They also thought people who offered to help might be attempt- ing to dupe them . " Ultimately , we found a young engineer whose father had died . His mother was also educated and his sister was in school , but on the day they ...
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... ment said it would only recognize a colony if its people were on the election rolls before 1980. How can they get registered if a colony is constantly demolished and built again ? " I was always concerned about children . This country ...
... ment said it would only recognize a colony if its people were on the election rolls before 1980. How can they get registered if a colony is constantly demolished and built again ? " I was always concerned about children . This country ...
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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