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Water out of fire: novel women, national fictions and the legacy of Nehruvian developmentalism in India

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This article compares the depiction of Nehruvian development in popular fiction with reality. The author maintains Indian popular fiction represents post-independent India as corrupt, the lifestyle modernity brings as highly desirable, and Indian women as modernized, educated, and dedicated to their traditional roles, and argues the actual failure of the Nehruvian development project contributed to the growth of economic liberalization and religious fundamentalism.

Social aspects, Women, Causes of, Economic policy, Economic development, Portrayals, Fundamentalism

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Re-crossing a different water: colonialism and third worldism in Fiji

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The idea of the Third World in Fiji by analysing the internal tensions of the term and plurality of trajectories emerging from the transnational spaces in which Fijian society must reconstitute itself after decolonialisation and the coups of 1987 and 2000 is discussed.

Fiji, Fijian history

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Accounts and accountability: theoretical implications of the right-to-information movement in India

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A campaign to fight corruption emerged in the late 1980s in the north Indian state of Rajasthan. This movement has produced a larger organization that openly debates participatory development, human rights, and anti-corruption.

Developing countries

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