Averting the Apocalypse: Social Movements in India Today

by Arthur Bonner

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822310481
• ISBN13: 9780822310488
• Release Date: February 1990
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 476 Pages
• Weight: 1.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.1" x 9.3"