Duplicity, intimacy, community: An ethnography of ID cards, permits and other fake documents in Delhi

Thesis Eleven

Volumn 113, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 78-93

  Srivastava, Sanjay ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

Delhi; fake documents; identity cards; informal economy; slums; urban poor

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872032243     PISSN: 07255136     EISSN: 14617455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0725513612456686     Document Type: Article

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