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245 0 _aDemocracy and diversity: India and the American experience/
_cedited by K. Shankar Bajpai
260 _aNew Delhi:
_bOxford University Press,
_c2007.
300 _axxiv, 312 p. :
_bill. ;
_c23 cm.
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650 _aDemocracy
700 _aBajpai, K. Shankar, ed.
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