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From Landlords to Software Engineers: Migration and Urbanization among Tamil Brahmans

In south India’s rapidly expanding information technology (IT) industry, the small, traditional elite of Tamil Brahmans is disproportionately well rep- resented. Actually, no figures to confirm this assertion exist, but all the circum- stantial evidence suggests that it is true, especially among the...

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Tác giả chính: C . J . FULLER AND HARIPRIYA NARASIMHAN
Định dạng: Printed Book
Được phát hành: Comparative Studies in Society and History 2008
Truy cập trực tuyến:http://10.26.1.76/ks/006026.pdf
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