Assets versus autonomy? The changing face of the gender-caste overlap in india

Feminist Economics

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 19-35

  Deshpande, Ashwini ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

Autonomy; Caste; Color; Disparity; Gender; India

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036663614     PISSN: 13545701     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13545700210160005     Document Type: Article

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