The sacrifices of modernity in a Soviet-built steel town in central India

On the Margins of Religion

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 233-262

  Parry, Jonathan P ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

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