Caste and entrepreneurship in India

Economic and Political Weekly

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 52-60

  Iyer, Lakshmi ^a   Khanna, Tarun ^a   Varshney, Ashutosh ^b  

^a HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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