INTRODUCTION.
Class explains much in the differentiation of life chances and political dynamics in South Asia. Yet in the subcontinent class has lost its centrality as a way of understanding the world and how it changes. Indian intellectuals have been a major force in the eclipsing of class through discursive str...
| Publicado en: | Critical Asian Studies Vol. 38; no. 4; pp. 323 - 357 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Dec2006
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