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| Hindu nationalist statecraft and Modi's authoritarian populism KB Nielsen, AG Nilsen Routledge handbook of autocratization in South Asia, 92-100, 2021 | 46 | 2021 |
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| Political economy, social movements and state power: A Marxian perspective on two decades of resistance to the Narmada Dam Projects AG Nilsen Journal of Historical Sociology 21 (2‐3), 303-330, 2008 | 38 | 2008 |
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