'In the past we were a bit "Chamar"': Education as a self- and community engineering process in northern India

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 899-916

  Ciotti, Manuela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 33750478720     PISSN: 13590987     EISSN: 14679655     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2006.00369.x     Document Type: Article

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