Success stories: Rhetoric, authenticity, and the right to information movement in north India

Contemporary South Asia

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 293-304

  Webb, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Activism; India; Rhetoric authenticity; Right to information

Indexed keywords

ACCOUNTABILITY; CITIZENSHIP; INFORMATION; LEGAL RIGHTS; SOCIAL MOVEMENT;

INDIA;

EID: 77956196449     PISSN: 09584935     EISSN: 1469364X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09584935.2010.501098     Document Type: Article

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