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beginning research
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postcolonial & cultural studies
- The year's work in critical and cultural theory,
e.g., "Colonial Discourse, Postcolonial Theory" - The Johns Hopkins guide to literary theory & criticism, e.g., "Postcolonial Cultural Studies: Origins to the 1980s," "Postcolonial Cultural Studies: 1990 and After," "Indian Theory & Criticism"
- Annual review of anthropology, e.g., "History and Anthropology in South Asia"
- Wikipedia "Subaltern Studies" etc
search for articles and books
- Bibliography of Asian studies
- Academic Search Premier
- Historical Abstracts
- SearchWorks (books in Stanford libraries)
- Google Scholar
background
Encyclopedia of India | AsiaSource | Library of Congress Country Studies | World Bank India home | U.S. State Dept. Background Notes, etc. | C.I.A. World Factbook | Economist: EIU Country Data | country profiles via ELDIS | Historical Atlas of South Asia | South Asia Europa | Territories and States of India 2nd ed. 2010 (on order) | Districts of India: gateway
statistics & gis
IndiaStat (select IP login) | India infrastructure report (annual) | India Development Report (annual) | Statistics Abstract, India | C.I.A. World Factbook | Sources of comparative International Statistics | Statistical Universe | World Bank Data & Statistics | IndiaMap | India State Basemap GIS data | South Asia. London: Europa Publications, Annual
IPUMS (Integrated Public-use Microdata Samples), long known for its archiving of US census microdata, has recently begun a program to do the same for international microdata. unfortunately, India has not yet agreed to participate. However, the Indian Census does sell 2001 microdata samples. Indiastat, World development indicators, SourceOECD, and United Nations common database provide country-level estimates on different statistics. Indiastat provides sub-regional estimates. See census products of Maps of India
explore the literature of human rights, development, and ethnic groups
ProPoor NGOs active in South Asia | CAB Direct for rural development, tourism as well agriculture | eldis
read
Times of India online (1836-2001) | Times of India (current 3 months paper edition retained) and India today international in Current Periodicals | Economic and Political Weekly (Bombay) | news coverage and wire services: Lexis/Nexis (Fulltext newspapers, including current NYT, and journals) | Access World News: India (The Hindu, Times of India) | World News Connection , a foreign news service from the US Government | The Hindu | Dawn, the Internet edition (Pakistan) | The Daily Mail (Islamabad) and other news from Pakistan | South Asian Newspapers, 1864-1922
Indian ejournals and newspapers currrently received by Berkeley's South/Southeast Asia Library. CRL SAMP microfilm collections.
Fulltext in Lexis/Nexis
- Business Today
- Hindustan Times
- India Today
- Mint
- The Statesman
biography
World biographical information system It's subsection Indian Biographical Archive indexes a number of biographical sources, some of which we own. The database can be searched by occupation.
bollywood
DVDs: search Socrates Combined Search mode for "Everything" Hindi and Green Location "Media-Microtext;" N.B. Search does not work in SearchWorks. About 160 records should be retrieved. Bollywood in Wikipedia; Film Studies (Quckstart guide); SUL Film & Media Studies; Bioscope: South Asian Screen Studies ; Encyclopaedia of Bollywood (2009)
- Subject (LC): Motion pictures--India
- Subject (LC): Motion picture industry--India
Tibetan etexts
Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center
other internet links
- e-Diaspora Atlas
- Digital South Asia Library
- GOI Web Directory -- access to all Indian Government Websites at all levels and from all sectors.
- http://districtsofindia.com requires personal account; not licensed by SULAIR
- Districts of India: gateway . . . http://districts.nic.in/
- Maps of India
- Columbia University Library. sarai South Asia Resource Access on the Internet
- Center for research Libraries. Digital South Asia Library
- Joseph Regenstein Library Southern Asia Collections
- UC Berkeley Library. South Asia Resources
- Stanford's Center for South Asia : people, courses
census of India
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GOI Web Directory -- access to all Indian Government Websites at all levels and from all sectors.
The library licenses IndiaStat http://www.indiastat.com/default.aspx , which includes census data from 1991 to the present. IndiaStat home page links to related sites:
- indiademographics.com
- indiawomenstat.com
If you are not finding what you want in IndiaStat, “Contact us” from their website and choose “Data Query--Members”
Print India national censuses in the Stanford library (some sources have been digitized by Google Books; links from Socrates and SearchWorks for Stanford-owned volumes): http://searchworks.stanford.edu/?q=census+of+india
UC Berkeley library has many State-level censuses in print. Search their catalog <http://oskicat.berkeley.edu/>
JSTOR is a good search for articles that may have analyzed Census of India data for different historical questions. For example a time-trend analysis in the age of marriage is found in S. N. Agarwala, "The Age at Marriage in India," Population Index, Vol. 23, No. 2 (Apr., 1957), pp. 96-107, Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2731762
Other Government Publications List of the Serial Publications of Foreign Governments, 1815-1931. (Gregory)
GOI Web Directory -- A one-point source to access all Indian Government Websites at all levels and from all sectors.
archives
Colonial Period
Records of the India Office, created in 1859, and its predecessors, also include the records of the Burma Office, from its creation in 1937 to 1948.
India Office Records introduction: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India_Office Records . "The records come from four main sources: the East India Company (1600–1858), the Board of Control (1784–1858), the India Office (1858–1947), and the Burma Office (1937–1948)".
East India Company (253 catalog records) including
Original Papers, Elucidatory of the Claims Preferred by the Officers of the Honourable Company's Army In India. [London]: Published by their authority, 1794.
- India Office Records hub
- India Office Family History Search -- limited search of ecclesiastical and biographical records
- India Office Private Papers: Scope and Catalogues
- Search the India Office Records at Access 2 Archives
- Farrington, Anthony. Guide to the Records of the India Office Military Department : 10r L/mil & L/ws. London: The Office, 1982.
- India. Census Commissioner. Moir, Martin. A general guide to the India Office Records. London: British Library, 1988.
- Papers Relating to East India Affairs: Viz. Hindoo Widows and Voluntary Immolations. [London?], 1821.
- Sadan, Mandy. A Guide to Colonial Sources On Burma : Ethnic & Minority Histories of Burma In the India Office Records, British Library. Bangkok, Thailand: Orchid Press, 2008.
- Seton, Rosemary E. The Indian 'mutiny' 1857-58 : a Guide to Source Material In the India Office Library and Records. London: British Library, 1986.
- Sutton, S. C. A Guide to the India Office Library: with a Note On the India Office Records. London: H.M.S.O., 1967.
- Sever, Adrian. British Parliamentary Papers Relating to India, 1662-1947. Delhi: B.R. Pub. Corp. , 1992.
- Sims, J. M.A List and Index of Parliamentary Papers Relating to India, 1908-1947. London: India Office Library and Records, 1981.
Foreign Office Files for India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, 1947-1980
National Archives of India http://nationalarchives.nic.in/WebContent.aspx?id=15&type=homemore
South Asia Archives
Low, D. A, J. C Iltis, and Mary Doreen Wainwright. Government Archives In South Asia: a Guide to National and State Archives In Ceylon, India and Pakistan. London: Cambridge U.P., 1969. [CD2081 .L6 Lane Rm.]
Pearson, J. D, and Mary Doreen Wainwright. A Guide to Manuscripts and Documents In the British Isles Relating to South and South-east Asia. London: Mansell Pub. Ltd., 1989. Supplement to:
Wainwright, Mary Doreen, and Noel Matthews. A Guide to Western Manuscripts and Documents In the British Isles Relating to South and South East Asia. London: Oxford University Press, 1965.
gazetteers
India gazetteers; imperial series, provincial series, district series, a check list and index. Green > Social Sciences Resource Center (Non-circulating) > Z3205 .I58. UCB owns the accompanying microfiche collection Gazetteers of India in the British period [MICROFICHE 35908 guide Newspapers & Microforms]. UCB also has much more extensive holdings than Stanford of print gazetteers; search their web catalog.
Search individual titles or try a keyword search in SearchWorks, e.g., < india district gazetteers > or < Madras gazetteer > http://searchworks.stanford.edu/?q=%22Madras+gazetteer%22&search_field=search_series
Chaudhuri, Sashi Bhusan. History of the Gazetteers of India. New Delhi: Ministry of Education, Govt. of India, 1964.
Wikipedia contributors, "The Imperial Gazetteer of India," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Imperial_Gazetteer_of_India&oldid=450708770
Stanford library holdings also include:
The Imperial Gazetteer. Hunter, William Wilson, Sir. 14 v. London, Trübner & co., 1885-87.
Imperial gazetteer of India ... published under the authoriy of His Majesty's secretary of state for India in council. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1907-1909. 26 v. [First edition, 9 vols., 1881, and 2d edition, 14 vols., 1885-1887, edited by Sir William Wilson Hunter. The present may be considered as a new work, rather than a new edition. cf. General pref. Editor for India, 1902-04, William Stevenson Meyer; 1905-09, Richard Burn; editor in England, James Sutherland Cotton.] Bibliographies at end of chapters.
Imperial gazetteer of India [South Asia Digital Library, University of Chicagi] New edition, published under the authority of His Majesty's secretary of state for India in council. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1908-1931 [v. 1, 1909]
reference books
Historical biography: Indian biographical archive. MFICHE 2718 MEDIA-MTXT. indexed by World biographical information system ; historical Indian gazetteers and atlas.
Encyclopedias & bibliographies
- Brill's Encyclopedia of Hinduism. Leiden: Brill, 2009.
- India Subject bliographies and web guides (from Berkeley's South/Southeast Asia Library)
- Int. Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences "Historiography and Historical Thought: South Asia"; "South Asia: Sociocultural Aspects", etc.
- Encyclopaedia of Bollywood. 2009.
- Encyclopedia of India
- Encyclopaedia of Indian cinema. 1994.
- The encyclopedia of the Indian diaspora. 2006.
- Encyclopaedia of Indian iconography: Hinduism - Buddhism - Jainism. 2nd ed. 2003.
- Encyclopaedia of fairs and festivals in India: with select rituals, vows, holy cities, temples and pilgrim centers. 2001.
- Encyclopaedia of Indian literature. 2 v. 2007.
- International encyclopaedia of Indian literature. Rev. and enlarged ed. 1987-.
- The Encyclopedia of Indian philosophies. 2000-. 10 v.
- Encyclopaedia of Indian philosophy. 2007. 2 v.
- Encyclopaedia of Indian tribes. 1994. 12 v.
- Encyclopaedia of status and empowerment of women in India. 4 v. 1999.
- Encyclopaedia of Indian women. 3 v. 1998.
- Handbook of Oriental Studies Section two, India. 1971-.
humanities & social science journals
more abstracts/indexes
Search Bibliography of Asian Studies for books and articles | Academic Search Premier for recent articles | SearchWorks (books in Stanford libraries) | Google Scholar
Other databases available to Stanford users include:
- ABI Global Business Online (offshoring, outsourcing, call centers, etc.)
- Access World News: India – includes The Hindu, Times of India
- ATLA Religion Index
- CAB Direct (Commonwealth Agricultural Board)
- Dissertation Abstracts
- Government Information databases
- Historical Abstracts
- IndiaStat
- Lexis/Nexis (Fulltext newspapers, including current NYT, and journals)
- MLA Bibliography (1963-) indexes literature, languages, and folklore
- New York Times Historical (1851-2001) fulltext
- PAIS (public policy)
- Sociological Abstracts
- World agricultural economics and rural sociology abstracts
- World News Connection Foreign News Service from the U.S. Government
- World Political Science Abstracts
some important publishers and series
cooperation with UC
about the collection
The SUL collection, excepting Buddhist Studies, is comprised primarily of English language books supporting study and teaching: SUL Collection Development Policy for South Asia. Send purchase requests to John Rawlings, Green Library, rawlings@stanford.edu, 3-3101. The UC Berkeley South/Southeast Asia Library houses an important research collection; Adnan Malik (amalik@library.berkeley.edu) is the librarian for the UCB South Asia Collection. Faculty and graduate students should register with the Research Library Cooperative Program (RLCP) to borrow Berkeley Library material through the RLCP's document delivery service. Additionally, the University of California / Stanford University Reciprocal Services Program (RSP) provides eligible Stanford users with the same on-site access and borrowing privileges as are accorded their counterparts at each of the U.C. campus general libraries.
Stanford's Center for South Asia including people & courses
- 10.27.09 Univ. plans to upgrade Asian area studies.
- 2.21.08 Richard Saller, Dean of Humanities and Sciences: "We are now looking at adding about five to seven…appointments in South Asian [program] that would span social sciences and humanities. It might not be literature, it might be film, for example. And we have to think about what we can do based on the library and research resources that we have." Faculty Senate minutes for February 21st.
http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2008/february27/minutes-022708.html. - 5.02.07 President Hennessey stresses importance of building bridges to India.
- 5.02.07 South Asia classes focus on themes ancient, modern.
- 10.10 "South Asian Scholars at Stanford." Anthropology Department Newsletter 3 (2010):3 https://www.stanford.edu/dept/anthropology/cgi-bin/web/?q=node/177
- 10.10 Thomas Hansen, Reliance-Dhirubhai Ambani Professor in South Asian Studies and Professor in Anthropology, appointed Director of Stanford’s Center for South Asian Studies. Anthropology Department Newsletter 3 (2010): 2- https://www.stanford.edu/dept/anthropology/cgi-bin/web/?q=node/177
