Paper tiger: Law, bureaucracy and the developmental state in Himalayan India

Paper Tiger: Law, Bureaucracy and the Developmental State in Himalayan India

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 1-192

  Mathur, Nayanika ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9781316227367     Document Type: Book

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