Modern South Asia Resources--Furman University Libraries

History 50 - History of Modern South Asia


Topic Development Reference Sources Books	Articles Web Resources Evaluating Citing

Identify and Develop Your Topic

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

Use Reference Sources to Find Background Information

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

An archaeological history of religions of Indian Asia

Reference BL2005 .F56 1989

The biographical dictionary of greater India

Reference DS434 .B56 1998

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

Encyclopaedia of Indian cinema

Reference PN1993.5.I8 R34 1994

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

Guide to Indian philosophy

Reference B5131 .P68 1988

South Asian folklore : an encyclopedia : Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka

Reference GR302 .S68 2003

South Asian writers in English

Reference PN451 .D5 v.323

Marriage customs of the world : from henna to honeymoons

Reference GT2690 .M65 2004

Use ALCUIN and WorldCat to find Books

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