Sacred cows and thumping drums: Claiming territory as 'zones of tradition' in British India

Area

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 55-65

  Jones, Reece ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Boundaries; Communalism; Discourses; Identities; South Asia; Territoriality

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL IDENTITY; CULTURAL TRADITION; RELIGION; TERRITORIALITY; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ASIA; EURASIA; SOUTH ASIA;

BOS;

EID: 34247102361     PISSN: 00040894     EISSN: 14754762     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4762.2007.00715.x     Document Type: Article

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