Sex ratios, cross-region marriages and the challenge to caste endogamy in Haryana

Economic and Political Weekly

Volumn 48, Issue 35, 2013, Pages 70-78

  Mishra, Paro ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

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