The politics-kinship nexus in India: Sonia Gandhi versus Sushma Swaraj in the 1999 general elections

Contemporary South Asia

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 273-285

  Skoda, Uwe ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTION; KINSHIP; LEADERSHIP; POWER RELATIONS;

EID: 8644233357     PISSN: 09584935     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0958493042000272195     Document Type: Article

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