Conservative force or contradictory resource? Education and affirmative action in Jharkhand, India

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Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 718-739

  Higham, Rob ^a   Shah, Alpa ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

adivasi; affirmative action; caste; class; education; ethnicity; India; indigenous; labour; tribe

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889673715     PISSN: 03057925     EISSN: 14693623     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03057925.2012.746897     Document Type: Article

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