From begums and bibis to abandoned females and idle women: Sexual relationships, venereal disease and the redefinition of prostitution in early nineteenth-century India

Indian Economic and Social History Review

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 5-25

  Wald, Erica ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 65149106859     PISSN: 00194646     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/001946460804600102     Document Type: Article

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