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History A59- Gender History of South Asia

   
   


State your topic as a question, such as:
"How does gender inequality affect reproductive decisions in India?"

Identify keywords and synonyms/variants for those words, for example:
gender: women, woman, female, gender equity etc...
reproduction: reproductive health, pregnancy, childbirth etc...



Encyclopedia of Women and Gender Reference HQ1115 .E43 2001
Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women Reference HQ1115 .R69 2000
Women in World History Reference HQ1115 .W6 1999
Where Women Stand Reference HQ1154 .N39 1997
Sisterhood is Global Reference HQ1154 .S54 1990
Encyclopedia of Feminist Theories Reference HQ1190 .E63 2000
The Human Rights Encyclopedia Reference JC571 .L523 2001
Encyclopedia of Nationalism Reference JC311 .E4996 2001
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
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
Women of South Asia : a guide to resources Reference Z7964.S65 S23


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*

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