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Author: Addlakha, Renu (Editor)
Book Title: Disability Studies In India: Global Discourses, Local Realit...
Language: English
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Routledge Chapman & Hall
Publication Year: 2013
Item Weight: 1.4 lbs
