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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... rupees ( $ 630 ) ; a tribal woman in Bihar was bought for two thousand rupees ( $ 140 ) as a bride price and later sold in West Ben- gal ; Muslim girls in West Bengal were sold at auctions at prices ranging from 2,500 ( $ 175 ) to ...
... rupees ( $ 630 ) ; a tribal woman in Bihar was bought for two thousand rupees ( $ 140 ) as a bride price and later sold in West Ben- gal ; Muslim girls in West Bengal were sold at auctions at prices ranging from 2,500 ( $ 175 ) to ...
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... rupees ( $ 70- $ 140 ) . Customers pay as little as five rupees ( 35 cents ) , of which three is for the pimp or madam , one is mamool ( bribe ; literally : custom , tradition ) for the police , and one is for the woman . If a woman ...
... rupees ( $ 70- $ 140 ) . Customers pay as little as five rupees ( 35 cents ) , of which three is for the pimp or madam , one is mamool ( bribe ; literally : custom , tradition ) for the police , and one is for the woman . If a woman ...
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... rupees per person . Most crews managed to get taken on for at least two shifts , bringing daily earnings per person to 12.50 rupees . But then 2.50 was deducted for the shovel , leaving only ten rupees ( about 70 Ameri- can cents ) for ...
... rupees per person . Most crews managed to get taken on for at least two shifts , bringing daily earnings per person to 12.50 rupees . But then 2.50 was deducted for the shovel , leaving only ten rupees ( about 70 Ameri- can cents ) for ...
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