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  • Today, there\'s a new kind of swadeshi with online social activism.

    Lee Schneider: The Do Good Web 2009

  • Today, there's a new kind of swadeshi with online social activism.

    Lee Schneider: The Do Good Web 2009

  • Today, there\'s a new kind of swadeshi with online social activism.

    Lee Schneider: The Do Good Web 2009

  • To console himself he settled down to read Tagore's story _Ghare-Baire_ in which a zamindar persuades his wife to come out of purdah, whereupon she takes up with a firebrand politico involved in the "swadeshi" campaign, and the zamindar winds up dead.

    The Satanic Verses Rushdie, Salman 1967

  • Yoga guru Ramdev's centre to prepare apple juice today entered into an agreement with Himachal Pradesh government to produce a 'swadeshi' apple juice.

    WN.com - Articles related to Lindsay Lohan prompts on-air battle 2010

  • Yoga guru Ramdev's centre to prepare apple juice today entered into an agreement with Himachal Pradesh government to produce a 'swadeshi' apple juice.

    WN.com - Articles related to Lindsay Lohan prompts on-air battle 2010

  • Senior party leader Murli Manohar Joshi, who was earlier given the task of drafting the manifesto, is also a 'swadeshi' economics man.

    The Hindu - Front Page 2009

  • As for 'swadeshi' policies, it sounds good but despite the global meltdown a country like India cannot have an economic system that is entirely inward looking.

    Asian Tribune 2009

  • It had also distanced itself -- as much as was possible -- from the present government foreign policy by alleging that it was not based on consensus and fervently pursued a 'swadeshi' economic policy that allegedly sought to keep India safe from the clutches of wily 'foreign' powers.

    Asian Tribune 2009

  • Initially seen as the engine of an independent India - the first "swadeshi" steel mill was completed in 1920 by the Tata Iron and Steel Company just across the present day Orissa-Jhakhand border in Jamshedpur - and then cast into shadow by the shining "new economy" of the 1990's; a five year rally in international prices has seen the iron and steel sector make a strong return in the daily business pages.

    Kafila 2009

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