Inventing Village Tradition: The late 19th Century Origins of the North Indian Jajmani System’

Modern Asian Studies

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 1993, Pages 357-395

  Mayer, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

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