Census in colonial India and the birth of caste

Economic and Political Weekly

Volumn 46, Issue 33, 2011, Pages 51-58

  Samarendra, Padmanabh ^a  

^a JAMIA MILLIA ISLAMIA CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

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