Recasting economic inequality

Boundaries of Clan and Color: Transnational Comparisons of Inter-Group Disparity

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 112-129

  Deshpande, Ashwini ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203987711     Document Type: Chapter

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