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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... Prostitution is not illegal in itself . The law is aimed at people who live on prostitutes and who do allied things like kidnapping and keeping them in custody . At an initial stage force is used to tame them and attach them to the ...
... Prostitution is not illegal in itself . The law is aimed at people who live on prostitutes and who do allied things like kidnapping and keeping them in custody . At an initial stage force is used to tame them and attach them to the ...
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... police to register a warning of possible violence if the adjacent colony did not run its pipe around the Sanjay Gandhi site . Helping Prostitutes One evening , when Anna finally had free The Rescue of Bishnu and Uma 37 •
... police to register a warning of possible violence if the adjacent colony did not run its pipe around the Sanjay Gandhi site . Helping Prostitutes One evening , when Anna finally had free The Rescue of Bishnu and Uma 37 •
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... prostitutes , but had little impact . For example , a girl of seventeen , who had a baby , was in a brothel . One day she ran away , leaving the baby behind , and came to us for help . We went with a senior inspector of women police to ...
... prostitutes , but had little impact . For example , a girl of seventeen , who had a baby , was in a brothel . One day she ran away , leaving the baby behind , and came to us for help . We went with a senior inspector of women police to ...
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... prostitution , the rubber - stamp legislature of the time approved a law called the Suppression of Immoral Traffic in Women and Girls Act . The shortened title — Sita — is ironic , since Sita is the name of the goddess who symbolizes ...
... prostitution , the rubber - stamp legislature of the time approved a law called the Suppression of Immoral Traffic in Women and Girls Act . The shortened title — Sita — is ironic , since Sita is the name of the goddess who symbolizes ...
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... prostitutes in contemporary Bangkok , when interviewed , say they volunteered to sell sex because they wanted more money ; in- stances of coercion among the tens of thousands of Thai prostitutes are rare . But the opposite is true in ...
... prostitutes in contemporary Bangkok , when interviewed , say they volunteered to sell sex because they wanted more money ; in- stances of coercion among the tens of thousands of Thai prostitutes are rare . But the opposite is true in ...
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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