Introduction: What Makes Tranquebar a Place?

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Introduction: What Makes Tranquebar a Place? / Fihl, Esther.

Beyond Tranquebar: Grappling across Cultural Borders in South India. ed. / Esther Fihl; A. R. Venkatachalapathy. 1. ed. New Delhi : Orient BlackSwan, 2014. p. 1-27.

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Harvard

Fihl, E 2014, Introduction: What Makes Tranquebar a Place? in E Fihl & AR Venkatachalapathy (eds), Beyond Tranquebar: Grappling across Cultural Borders in South India. 1. edn, Orient BlackSwan, New Delhi, pp. 1-27. <https://www.orientblackswan.com/BookDescription.aspx?isbn=978-81-250-5437-5&txt=Beyond%20Tranquebar:%20Grappling%20Across%20Cultural%20Borders%20in%20South%20India&t=d>

APA

Fihl, E. (2014). Introduction: What Makes Tranquebar a Place? In E. Fihl, & A. R. Venkatachalapathy (Eds.), Beyond Tranquebar: Grappling across Cultural Borders in South India (1. ed., pp. 1-27). Orient BlackSwan. https://www.orientblackswan.com/BookDescription.aspx?isbn=978-81-250-5437-5&txt=Beyond%20Tranquebar:%20Grappling%20Across%20Cultural%20Borders%20in%20South%20India&t=d

Vancouver

Fihl E. Introduction: What Makes Tranquebar a Place? In Fihl E, Venkatachalapathy AR, editors, Beyond Tranquebar: Grappling across Cultural Borders in South India. 1. ed. New Delhi: Orient BlackSwan. 2014. p. 1-27

Author

Fihl, Esther. / Introduction: What Makes Tranquebar a Place?. Beyond Tranquebar: Grappling across Cultural Borders in South India. editor / Esther Fihl ; A. R. Venkatachalapathy. 1. ed. New Delhi : Orient BlackSwan, 2014. pp. 1-27

Bibtex

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