“Following Custom”? Representations of Community among Indian Immigrant Labour in the West Indies, 1880–1920
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عنوان ژورنال: International Review of Social History
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0020-8590,1469-512X
DOI: 10.1017/s0020859006002653