Keeping up with the Vaishyas? Caste and relative standing in India

Oxford Economic Papers

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 52-73

  Carlsson, Fredrik ^a   Gupta, Gautam ^b   Johansson Stenman, Olof ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASTE SYSTEM; LOW INCOME POPULATION;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 57649121664     PISSN: 00307653     EISSN: 14643812     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oep/gpn015     Document Type: Article

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