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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... night . By living there as well , a man protects his vehicle from theft and is available at first call in the morning . Most pavement dwellers live in shelters of cloth and plastic stretched over bamboo frames , using the wall of a ...
... night . By living there as well , a man protects his vehicle from theft and is available at first call in the morning . Most pavement dwellers live in shelters of cloth and plastic stretched over bamboo frames , using the wall of a ...
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... night . They don't have a day care system , but they do have an intricately worked out system to take care of other children in case of need . If you uproot someone you have to reestablish that infrastructure . " To explore alternatives ...
... night . They don't have a day care system , but they do have an intricately worked out system to take care of other children in case of need . If you uproot someone you have to reestablish that infrastructure . " To explore alternatives ...
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... night Shabana telephoned . She said , ' Anna , I'm coming tomor- row . ' She canceled a trip to a film festival in France and came in the morning . " Shabana Azmi is not a doll - like woman . She has a somewhat large nose and mouth and ...
... night Shabana telephoned . She said , ' Anna , I'm coming tomor- row . ' She canceled a trip to a film festival in France and came in the morning . " Shabana Azmi is not a doll - like woman . She has a somewhat large nose and mouth and ...
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... night ? ' They had no answer . Some people say , ' My wife and daughter are safe on the streets because of these prostitutes ! But I said : ' Because I have to be safe , do other women have to suffer ? I would like to establish a ...
... night ? ' They had no answer . Some people say , ' My wife and daughter are safe on the streets because of these prostitutes ! But I said : ' Because I have to be safe , do other women have to suffer ? I would like to establish a ...
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... night at the Ymca : to ask him to stand as an advocate . A single blow for human rights will hardly make a difference . Bom- bay , with its slums , crime , and prostitution , has become what Shanghai was before World War II , the most ...
... night at the Ymca : to ask him to stand as an advocate . A single blow for human rights will hardly make a difference . Bom- bay , with its slums , crime , and prostitution , has become what Shanghai was before World War II , the most ...
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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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