Research Catalog

Title

Averting the Apocalypse : social movements in India today / Arthur Bonner.

Author

Bonner, Arthur.

Publication

Durham : Duke University Press, 1990.

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Details

Description

vi, 467 pages : maps; 24 cm

Summary

A vivid portrait of India's underclass and a picture of a society bloodied by decades of unequel social structure and the absence of a civil society and political mechanisms capable of responding to exploitation of the poor and weak.

Subjects

• India
• Social action
• Social movements
• Since 1947
• Case studies
• Indien
• India > Social conditions > 1947- > Case studies
• Soziale Bewegung
• Social conditions
• Social problems > Case studies
• Social action > India > Case studies
• Social movements > India > Case studies

Genre/Form

Case studies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

A Longing for Freedom -- A Missed Tryst -- The Rich and the Poor -- We, the Invisible -- The Rescue of Bishnu and Uma -- Sister Rita's Report -- Devadasis and Hijras -- Female Feticide -- The Goddess of Food -- Tribal India -- A Truck and Some Cows -- Creating a New Revolutionary Class -- The Mutiny of the Innocents -- Save the Western Ghats -- The Wandering Charcoal Makers -- The Failure of Charisma -- The Golana Massacre -- Temples and Toilets -- A Museum of Living Fossils -- Temples or Tombs? -- Pragmatic Activists -- Population and Sterilization -- A Model for Community Health -- Working for Women -- Slaves of Sabarmati -- The Rape of Guntaben -- The Mystic Dancer -- Bihar: Blindings and Massacres -- The Role of Activists -- Nonviolent Melodrama -- Journalism and Its Perils -- We Have a Dream -- Myths and Identity -- The Front Paw of the Revolution -- From Revolt to Renewal -- A Civilization That Doesn't Work -- Death by Encounter -- A Village Confrontation -- A Man with Faith in India -- Broken Promises, Broken Children -- The Little Carpet Makers -- The Little Match Girls -- Riddles of Hinduism -- The Conversions at Meenakshipuram -- Manipulating Myths and Symbols -- The Juggernaut Claims Its Victims -- The Politics of Passion -- The Fiery Swami -- The Triumph of Gandhi's Assassin -- Averting the Apocalypse.

ISBN

• 0822310481
• 9780822310488
• 9780822310297
• 0822310295
• 0822310295 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

89028006

OCLC

• ocm20491675
• 20491675
• SCSB-8979206

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library