Dalits and politics in rural north India: The Bahujan Samaj Party in Uttar Pradesh

Journal of Peasant Studies

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 35-60

  Duncan, Ian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTION; POLITICAL SYSTEM; RURAL POLITICS; SOCIAL MOVEMENT;

INDIA; UTTAR PRADESH;

EID: 0032696431     PISSN: 03066150     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03066159908438724     Document Type: Article

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