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 int...

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Main Author:	Bonner, Arthur (Author)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Durham Duke University Press [1990]
Subjects:	SOCIAL SCIENCE / General Social action > India > Case studies Social movements > India > Case studies Social problems > Case studies
Online Access:	DE-1043 DE-1046 DE-858 DE-859 DE-860 DE-739 DE-473 Volltext
Summary:	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
Item Description:	Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 12. Dez 2020)
Physical Description:	1 online resource (476 pages)
ISBN:	9780822381631
DOI:	10.1515/9780822381631