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Documenting Silences - An Ethnographic Inquiry into Gender-Based Violence among Migrant Agricultural Labours in Maharashtra

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|Dec 2025

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/genst-2025-0011 | Journal eISSN: 2286-0134 | Journal ISSN: 1583-980X
Language: English
Page range: 243 - 260
Published on: Dec 8, 2025
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