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Tamil brahmans : the making of a middle-class caste

A cruise along the streets of Chennai—or Silicon Valley—filled with professional young Indian men and women, reveals the new face of India. In the twenty-first century, Indians have acquired a new kind of global visibility, one of rapid economic advancement and, in the information technology industr...

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主要作者: Fuller, C. J
出版: New Delhi Social Science Press 2015
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