Averting the Apocalypse - Social Movements in India Today (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Duke University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	February 1990
First published:	April 1990
Authors:	Arthur Bonner
Dimensions:	235 x 152 x 35mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	476
ISBN-13:	978-0-8223-1048-8
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > General
LSN:	0-8223-1048-1
Barcode:	9780822310488

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