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State your topic as a question, such as:
"How has the caste system in India affected the women's movement?"

Identify keywords and synonyms/variants for those words, for example:
caste, social classes, women, woman, female, gender



Encyclopaedia of Indian literature Reference PK2902 .E53 1987
Dictionary of Oriental literatures Reference PJ31 .D5
Encyclopaedia of Indian cinema Reference PN1993.5.I8 R34 1994
Historical Dictionary of India Reference DS 405 .M27 1996
Historical Dictionary of Pakistan Reference DS 382 .B87 1991
The Cambridge encyclopedia of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, and the Maldives Reference DS334.9 .C36 1989
A dictionary of Modern Indian History 1707-1947 Reference DS 433 .M43 1987
A dictionary of Indian history Reference DS433 .B48 1967b
East India human development report Reference HC435.2 .E2145 2004
Encyclopaedia Indica Reference DS405 .S52
Encyclopaedia of India Reference DS405 .E53 1992
Encyclopedia of world cultures: South Asia Reference GN307 .E53 1991 v.3
The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary Reference PK933 .A673 1965
Sahibs, nabobs, and boxwallahs, a dictionary of the words of Anglo-Indian Reference PE3502.I64 L49 1991
The scheduled castes Reference DS422.C3 S56 1993
The student's Sanskrit-English dictionary Reference PK933 .A67 1970
The territories of India Reference DS445 .T47 2002
Tirtha, the treasury of Indian expressions Reference DS423 .T54 1992
Contemporary Authors, volume 105 (For Brook) Reference Z1224 .C59
Contemporary Authors New Revision Series, volume 38 (For Brook) Reference Z1224 .C61


To find books on your topic, you will probably want to do a keyword search in ALCUIN, the Library's online catalog. ALCUIN supports most of the standard searching techniques, including Boolean Operators (AND, OR), Nesting (using parentheses), and Truncation (using the asterisk *). You might, for example, might want to do a keyword search such as the following:

(women OR female*) and postcolonial*

For more information on searching ALCUIN, see Searching ALCUIN

To find books available to order on ILL use WorldCat


Bibliography of Asian Studies
Academic Search Premier
Humanities Abstracts
Historical Abstracts
New York Times Historical
1851-1999
Lexis-Nexis
Country Studies
AP Multimedia Archive


SARAI

MANAS

Frances Pritchett's South Asia Page

Digital South Asia Library

Major Critical Theories: A Timeline

Postcolonial Studies



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