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South Asia

N.B. 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 South Asia Collection. Faculty, academic or professional staff, and currently registered 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

• 5.02.07 President Hennessey stresses importance of building bridges to India
• 5.02.07 South Asia classes focus on themes ancient, modern
• 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.

postcolonial & cultural studies: books in the reference collection, and

• The year's work in critical and cultural theory: e.g., [Colonial Discourse, Postcolonial Theory].
• The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism. [Postcolonial Cultural Studies: Origins to the 1980s | Postcolonial Cultural Studies: 1990 and After].
• Annual Review of Anthropology: [History and Anthropology in South Asia]
• Wikipedia: [Subaltern Studies, etc.]

search sarai South Asia Resource Access on the Internet | Digital South Asia Library | Bibliography of Asian Studies for books and articles | Expanded Academic ASAP (aka Gale InfoTrac) | Article First | other abstracts/indexes | World Catalog | Socrates

background: AsiaSource | Britannica Online | Library of Congress Country Studies | 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

statistics & GIS : IndiaStat | India infrastructure report (annual) | India Development Report (annual) | C.I.A. World Factbook | Sources of comparative International Statistics | Statistical Universe | IndiaMap

IPUMS (Integrated Public-use Microdata Samples) web site (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.

explore the literature of human rights, develpoment, and ethnic groups | fulltext ethnographic literature on selected cultures in eHRAF | ProPoor NGOs active in South Asia | CAB Direct for rural development, tourism as well africultural | eldis

read Times of India (current 3 months paper edition retained) and India today international in Current Periodicals | news coverage and wire services: Lexis/Nexis Academic (Fulltext newspapers, including current NYT, and journals) | Global Newsbank | 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

Other Indian electronic journals and newspapers (from Berkeley's South/Southeast Asia Library)

Fulltext in Lexis/Nexis Academic

• Business Today
• Hindustan Times
• India Today
• Mint
• The Statesman

reference books: Historical biography: Indian biographical archive. MFICHE 2718 MEDIA-MTXT. indexed by World biographical information system ; historical Indian gazetteers and atlas.

• 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 Indian cinema. 1994.
• The encyclopedia of the Indian diaspora. 2006. on order.
• 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 tribes. 1994. 12 v.
• Encyclopaedia of status and empowerment of women in India. 4 v. 1999.
• Encyclopaedia of Indian women. 3 v. 1998.

bollywood DVDs: search Socrates' Combined Search mode for "Everything" Hindi and Green Location "Media-Microtext." About 160 records should be retrieved. Bollywood in Wikipedia. Quckstart guide: Film Studies | SUL Film & Media Studies

• Subject (LC): Motion pictures--India
• Subject (LC): Motion picture indistry--India

other internet links:

• Digital South Asia Library
• 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 Berekely Library. South Asia Resources
• Tibetan Cultural Region Directory | Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center

• ABI Global Business Online (offshoring, outsourcing, call centers, etc.)
• ATLA Religion Index
• CAB Direct
• Dissertation Abstracts
• Economic Literature Index
• Government Information databases
• Historical Abstracts Expanded Academic Index
• International Political Science Abstracts
• Lexis/Nexis Academic (Fulltext newspapers, including current NYT, and journals)
• MLA Bibliography (1963+) indexes literature, languages, and folklore
• NewsBank Full-Text Newspapers
• New York Times Historical (1851-2001) fulltext
• PAIS (public policy)
• Social Science Citation Index
• Sociological Abstracts
• World News Connection: Foreign News Service from the U.S. Government

Last modified: June 6, 2008