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- ↑ Chakkanatt, John (2002). Public Action and Religious Praxis: A Socio-religious Inquiry Into Two Cases of Public Action in the Garhwal Region and Their Implications for the Self-understanding and Praxis of the Church. University of Michigan. p. 62. ISBN 978-81-85574-55-4.
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