What makes people who they are? Pandit networks and the problem of livelihoods in early modern Western India

Indian Economic and Social History Review

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 381-416

  O'Hanlon, Rosalind ^a   Minkowski, Christopher ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1177/001946460804500303     Document Type: Article

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