Averting the Apocalypse : Social Movements in India Today /

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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Bonner, Arthur (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 1990.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Soziale Bewegung
Social problems.
Social movements.
Social conditions
Social action.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Problemes sociaux > Études de cas.
Action sociale > Inde > Études de cas.
Mouvements sociaux > Inde > Études de cas.
Social problems > Case studies.
Social action > India > Case studies.
Social movements > India > Case studies.
Indien
India.
Inde > Conditions sociales > 1947- > Études de cas.
India > Social conditions > 1947- > Case studies.
Case studies.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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 accur.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (476 pages): maps
ISBN:9780822381631

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