India Divided Diversity and Democracy under Attack

?[Shiva] has eloquently blended her views on the environment, agriculture, spirituality, and women's rights into a powerful philosophy.? -Utne Reader

?One of the world's most prominent radical scientists.? -The Guardian (UK)

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.

Vandana Shiva is a world-renowned thinker and environmental activist. Director of the Research Foundation on Science, Technology, and of the Ecology International Forum on Globalization, she is the author of many books. Prior to beginning her campaigns in defense of India?s ecology and against local mega-dam projects, Shiva was one of India?s leading physicists.