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Inequality in Colonial India

It was a sense of puzzlement over contemporary India that led me initially into an Interest in inequality, but neither the many excellent analyses of the caste system nor the more recent statements on social stratification aided much in resolving this Puzzlement. Slowly I came to believe, first, tha...

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Main Author: Satish Saberwal
Format: Printed Book
Published: Contributions to Indian Sociology 1979; 13; 241 1979
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Online Access:http://10.26.1.76/ks/00797.pdf
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