Land conflict in Nepal: Peasants' struggle to change unequal agrarian social relations

Community, Work and Family

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 371-393

  Upreti, Bishnu Raj ^a,b  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Community; Conflict; Context; Family; Land; Power; Social relation; Time

Indexed keywords

EID: 23344443929     PISSN: 13668803     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1366880042000295763     Document Type: Article

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