Working Paper – 7

Tata Institute of Social Sciences Patna Centre

Dirty Tracks across Border: Global Operations of Extraction, Labour, and Migration at a Railway Station on -Nepal Border

MITHILESH KUMAR

September 2018

Tata Institute of Social Sciences Patna Centre

Dirty Tracks across Border: Global Operations of Extraction, Labour, and Migration at a Railway Station on Bihar-Nepal Border

MITHILESH KUMAR

September 2018 Working Paper - 7 Publication: September, 2018

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