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Labor in South Asia: Introduction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 July 2015

Prasannan Parthasarathi*
Affiliation:
Boston College

Abstract

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Labor in South Asia
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Copyright © International Labor and Working-Class History, Inc. 2015 

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NOTES

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5. Thirsk, Joan, “Industries in the Countryside,” in Essays in the Economic and Social History of Tudor England, ed. Fisher, F. J. (Cambridge, 1961), 7088 Google Scholar and Parthasarathi, Prasannan, The Transition to a Colonial Economy: Weavers, Merchants and Kings in South India, 1720–1800 (Cambridge, 2001), 5361 CrossRefGoogle Scholar.