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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... woman value and prestige , defines her kinship roles , and contributes to her self - esteem . Annapurna has the inevitable Indian ambiguity : on one hand , the goddess symbolizes woman as the provider — the source of nourishment . On ...
... woman value and prestige , defines her kinship roles , and contributes to her self - esteem . Annapurna has the inevitable Indian ambiguity : on one hand , the goddess symbolizes woman as the provider — the source of nourishment . On ...
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... woman attached . " Look at this , a fruit seller , " he said . " She's finding a way to work and live . She'll be part of a group of ten to forty women . There'll be a meeting , and the name of each one will be spoken out loud , and ...
... woman attached . " Look at this , a fruit seller , " he said . " She's finding a way to work and live . She'll be part of a group of ten to forty women . There'll be a meeting , and the name of each one will be spoken out loud , and ...
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... woman sitting on an imitation leather coach in the reception area . She looked so disconsolate I asked Parag who she ... woman should divorce her husband and leave her house , but a divorce will cost a lot of money and after that who ...
... woman sitting on an imitation leather coach in the reception area . She looked so disconsolate I asked Parag who she ... woman should divorce her husband and leave her house , but a divorce will cost a lot of money and after that who ...
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We the Invisible | 25 |
The Rescue of Bishnu and Uma | 33 |
Sister Ritas Report | 42 |
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