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India divided : diversity and democracy under attack

Title
India divided : diversity and democracy under attack / Vandana Shiva.
Author
Shiva, Vandana.
Publication
New York : Seven Stories Press, [2005], ©2005.

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Description
191 pages; 18 cm.
Summary
"In India Divided environmental, human rights, and antiglobalization activist Vandana Shiva chronicles the internal battles of a nation that is both the world's largest democracy and a leading nuclear power. Shiva describes a society where traditional cultures collide with the new economy of globalization, and charts the course of India's war of fundamentalisms in the age of terror. From the IT centers of Bangalore to the villages of Uttar Pradesh, from the massacre at Gujarat and the popular emergence of Hindutva's narrow communalism to the decades-old battle for Kashmir. India Divided reveals a convergence of globalization and terrorism. Looking to the plights of India's Dalit communities and millions of poor subsistence farmers impoverished or displaced by biotechnology, seed patents, and the spate of mega-dam projects, Shiva argues that these silent killers form a local terror unmatched in devastation. In India Divided Shiva addresses India's most urgent threats with gravity and hope."--BOOK JACKET.
Series Statement
An open media book
Uniform Title
Open Media book.
Subject
  • Communalism > India
  • Globalization
  • India > Politics and government > 1977-
  • India > Economic conditions > 1947-
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-172) and index.
Contents
Ch. 1. India and her diversity -- Ch. 2. Engineered societies and globalization's fall out : terrorism, fundamentalism, and war -- Ch. 3. Biodiversity wars and the global giants -- Ch. 4. Seed wars and the corporate takeover of seeds -- Ch. 5. Water wars and the Ganges -- Ch. 6. On being Indian : globalization, Bharateeyata, and Hindutva.
ISBN
1583225404 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
  • 2004027827
  • 9781583225400 (pbk.)
OCLC
  • ocm57068430
  • SCSB-5175480
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries