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Development as Freedom

Flexible Citizenship: The Cultural Logics of Transnationality. Aihwa Ong. Durham, NIC: Duke University Press, 1999. ix. 322 pp., notes, bibliography, index.

Flexible Citizenship: The Cultural Logics of Transnationality

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Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

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The expanded state in contemporary India: counterinsurgency and the Prime Minister’s Rural Development Fellowship

Women were active participants in the Naxalite movement of the 1960s and 1970s in India but were made invisible in the mainstream historiography of the movement However, memoirs and autobiographies of women Naxalites bring out their experiences of participation in the movement This paper engages with the memoirs of two of them, K Ajitha and Krishna Bandyopadhyay, and argues that these women demonstrate a non-sovereign agency in self-making through these autobiographical narratives

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Self-Making through Self-Writing: Non-Sovereign Agency in Women's Memoirs from the Naxalite Movement

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