The practices, policies, and politics of transforming inequality in south asia: Ethnographies of affirmative action

Focaal

Volumn , Issue 65, 2013, Pages 3-12

  Shah, Alpa ^a   Shneiderman, Sara ^b  

^a Indigenous Politics Environmentalism and Insurgency   (India)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Affirmative action; Caste; Differentiated citizenship; Ethnicity and class; Ethnography of the state; India; Inequality; Nepal

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875302705     PISSN: 09201297     EISSN: 15585263     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3167/fcl.2013.650101     Document Type: Article

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