Nutritional deprivation among Indian tribals: A cause for concern

Anthropological Notebooks

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 5-16

  Das, Subal ^a   Bose, Kaushik ^a  

^a VIDYASAGAR UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Body mass index; Chronic energy deficiency; India; Tribe

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866788665     PISSN: 1408032X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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