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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... told I should do this in my personal capacity and not as assistant director . " I thought I would be a little adventurous and try something new . I had a lot of support from my friends . I don't mind taking responsibility , but I need ...
... told I should do this in my personal capacity and not as assistant director . " I thought I would be a little adventurous and try something new . I had a lot of support from my friends . I don't mind taking responsibility , but I need ...
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... told about the most famous incident in the struggle for housing for the poor : the time when Shabana Azmi , India's most honored film ac- tress , went on a fast : " The government said all slums established after 1980 were illegal and ...
... told about the most famous incident in the struggle for housing for the poor : the time when Shabana Azmi , India's most honored film ac- tress , went on a fast : " The government said all slums established after 1980 were illegal and ...
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... told me about the rescue of Bishnu and Uma : " In 1974 , when I was with the social service department of the Ywca , we worked with the Women's Branch of the Criminal Investiga- tion Division ( cid ) , trying to help prostitutes , but ...
... told me about the rescue of Bishnu and Uma : " In 1974 , when I was with the social service department of the Ywca , we worked with the Women's Branch of the Criminal Investiga- tion Division ( cid ) , trying to help prostitutes , but ...
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... told a police officer she had a B.A. and was brought here from Madras to take a job and then forced into a brothel . ' Please set me free , she said . Her parents were informed and came to take her back , but they did not press charges ...
... told a police officer she had a B.A. and was brought here from Madras to take a job and then forced into a brothel . ' Please set me free , she said . Her parents were informed and came to take her back , but they did not press charges ...
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... told Jan Bahadur and his son to walk around the streets . The next day his son was standing someplace when Bishnu was being taken in a tonga ( horse - drawn carriage ) . She saw him and shouted , ' Brother , brother ' in Nepali . He ...
... told Jan Bahadur and his son to walk around the streets . The next day his son was standing someplace when Bishnu was being taken in a tonga ( horse - drawn carriage ) . She saw him and shouted , ' Brother , brother ' in Nepali . He ...
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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