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Primary Source Material
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Towards Freedom: Documents on the Movement for Independence in India by Pran Nath Chopra
Call Number: DS480.82 .T86Each volume in the "Towards Freedom" series contains primary sources and archival documents related to a given year.Women in Colonial India: Historical Documents and Sources by Pramod K. Nayar
Call Number: HQ1742 .W65557 20135 volumes of primary source materialFrom Ghalib's Dilli to Lutyen's New Delhi by Mushirul Hasan; Dinyar Patel
Call Number: DS486.D3 H373 2014
Films, Music, and Literature
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- North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories
- North American Women's Letters and Diaries
- Theatre in Context Collection
- Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000
Check out the Indian and South Asian Films guide for feature films, documentaries, and literature.
Background Information
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An Atlas and Survey of South Asian History by Karl J. Schmidt
Call Number: G2261.S1 S3 1995- A Historical Atlas of South Asia by Joseph E. SchwartzbergCall Number: G2661 .S1 H5 1978
Atlas of Women and Men in India by Saraswati Raju; Peter J. Atkins; Janet G. Townsend; Naresh Kumar
Call Number: G2281 .G8 A8 1999Inscribing South Asian Muslim Women: An Annotated Bibliography & Research Guide by Tahera Aftab
Call Number: Z3185 .A36 2008The Cambridge Encyclopedia of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan and the Maldives by Francis Robinson
Call Number: DS334.9 .C36 1989Modern South Asia: History, Culture, Political Economy by Sugata Bose; Ayesha Jalal
Call Number: DS340 .B66 2011- South Asian Cultural Studies: A Bibliography by Vinay LalCall Number: DS339 .L36 1996
Selected Books
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A Concise History of Modern India by Barbara D. Metcalf
Call Number: DS461 .M47 2012- The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi by Mahatma Gandhi; Raghavan N. IyerCall Number: DS481.G3 A25 1986UTSA Libraries have vol. 1: Civilization, politics and religion
Nationalist Movement in India: A Reader by Sekhar Bandyopadhyay
Call Number: DS480.45 .N32917 2009The Partition of India by Ian Talbot; Gurharpal Singh
Call Number: DS480.842 .T34 2009Labour Bondage in West India: From Past to Present by Jan Breman
Call Number: HD4865 .I4 B74 2007Dwelling in the Archive: Women Writing House, Home, and History in Late Colonial India by Antoinette M. Burton
Call Number: PR9492.6 .W6 B87 2003Available in print and as an e-book- Status of Women in India by Shobana NelascoCall Number: HQ1742 .N415 2010
Gender and Discrimination: Health, Nutritional Status, and Role of Women in India by Manoranjan Pal
Call Number: HQ1237.5.I4 G46 2009Hindu Wife, Hindu Nation: Community, Religion, and Cultural Nationalism by Tanika Sarkar
Call Number: HQ1173 .S27 2001Death by Fire: Sati, Dowry Death, and Female Infanticide in Modern India by Mala Sen
Call Number: HQ1742 .S42 2002
South Asian Diaspora
Caste
This is just a small sampling of the many books we have on the subject of caste. Click on a title to check its availability.
Caste by Surinder S. Jodhka
Call Number: DS422.C3 J623 2012The Pariah Problem: Caste, Religion, and the Social in Modern India by Rupa Viswanath
Call Number: DS432.P25 V57 2014The Caste Question: Dalits and the Politics of Modern India by Anupama Rao
Call Number: DS422.C3 R365 2009
Muslims in India
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Handbook of Muslims in India: Empirical and Policy Perspectives by Rakesh Basant
Call Number: DS432.M84 H36 2010The Lives of Muslims in India: Politics, Exclusion and Violence by Abdul Shaban
Call Number: DS432 Mus.Li 2012Frontiers of Embedded Muslim Communities in India by Vinod K. Jairath
Call Number: DS432.M84 F76 2011Unequal Citizens: A Study of Muslim Women in India by Zoya Hasan; Ritu Menon
Call Number: HQ1170 .H317 2004Muslims of India: A Documentary Record by A. G. Noorani
Call Number: DS432.M84 M88 2004Islamic Civilization in South Asia: A History of Muslim Power and Presence in the Indian Subcontinent by Burjor Avari
Call Number: BP63.I4 A946 2013