Who is the identifiable victim? Caste and charitable giving in modern India

Economic Development and Cultural Change

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 299-321

  Deshpande, Ashwini ^a   Spears, Dean ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL THEORY; THEORETICAL STUDY;

INDIA;

EID: 84952916873     PISSN: 00130079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/684000     Document Type: Review

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