Averting the Apocalypse: Social Movements in India Today

By Arthur Bonner

Book Overview

There are two Indias: the caste and class elite that holds all power and makes up 10 to 15 percent of the population, and everyone else. Averting the Apocalypse is about everyone else. Bonner, a former New York Times special correspondent in Asia, traveled almost 20,000 miles within India, seeking out and interviewing those at the bottom of Indian society and the activists who are beginning to mobilize for social change.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822310295
• ISBN13: 9780822310297
• Release Date: February 1990
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 476 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.5" x 9.5"