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Dangerous Desires: Television and Erotics in Late Twentieth-Century India

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2007

Purnima Mankekar
Purnima Mankekar
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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 63 , Issue 2 , May 2004 , pp. 403 - 431
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