The codification of personal law and secular citizenship: Revisiting the history of law reform in late colonial India

Indian Economic and Social History Review

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 83-104

  Newbigin, Eleanor ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 65149091649     PISSN: 00194646     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/001946460804600105     Document Type: Article

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