Cultural contractions and intergenerational relations: The construction of selfhood among middle-class youth in Baroda

Being Middle-class in India: A Way of Life

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 100-116

  van Wessel, Margit ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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