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Books Related to India

Annamācārya, Nārāyanarāvu, Velcheru, & Shulman, David (2005). God on the hill : Temple poems from tirupati. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press.  

Dalmia, Yashodhara (2006). Amrita Sher-Gil: A life. Viking India.  

Desai, Anita (1989). Baumgartner's bombay (1st American ed.). New York: A.A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House.  

Desai, Anita (1983). Cry, the peacock. Delhi: Vision Books.  

Desai, Kiran (1998). Hullabaloo in the guava orchard. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press.  

Desai, Kiran (2006). The inheritance of loss (First Grove Press ed.). New York: Grove Press.

Friedman, Thomas (2006). The world is flat : A brief history of the twenty-first century. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.  

Guha, Ramachandra (2007). India after gandhi : The history of the world's largest democracy. New York: Ecco.  

Luce, Edward (2007). In spite of the gods : The strange rise of modern india (1st in the U.S ed.). New York: Doubleday.  

Premacanda. (2002). The gift of a cow : A translation of the classic hindi novel, godaan. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.  

Preston, Diana, & Preston, Michael (2007). Taj mahal : Passion and genius at the heart of the moghul empire. New York: Walker.  

Rushdie, Salman (1981). Midnight's children : A novel. New York: Knopf.  

Seth, Vikram (1993). A suitable boy. London: Phoenix house.  

Sinha, Aseema (2005). The regional roots of developmental politics in india : A divided leviathan. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.  

Tharu, Susie, & Lalita, K. (1991). Women writing in india : 600 B.C. to the present. New York: Feminist Press at the City University of New York : Distributed by Talman Co.

National South Asia Resource Centers

Columbia University
http://sipa.columbia.edu/regional/sai/index.html

Cornell University
http://www.einaudi.cornell.edu/southasia/

Syracuse University
http://www.maxwell.syr.edu/moynihan/programs/sac/

University of California, Berkeley
http://ias.berkeley.edu/SouthAsia/

University of Chicago
http://southasia.uchicago.edu/

 

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
http://www.ii.umich.edu/csas/

University of Pennsylvania
http://www.southasia.upenn.edu/index.html

University of Texas, Austin
http://www.utexas.edu/cola/insts/southasia/

University of Virginia, Charlottesville
http://artsandsciences.virginia.edu/soasia/index.html

University of Washington, Seattle
http://jsis.washington.edu/soasia/

University of Wisconsin-Madison
http://www.southasia.wisc.edu/

Indian Institutions

American Institute of Indian Studies
http://www.indiastudies.org/

 

Networks and Web Resources

SAARC - The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation
Provides a platform for the people of South Asia to work together in a spirit of friendship, trust and understanding. Its documentation center and library, located in New Delhi, provides information services to Member States.

SAMAJ - South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal
First online journal devoted to social studies on South Asia, which publishes research-based articles in extenso and free of cost, while still applying the basic rules of all scientific journals. Written by professional academics as well as doctoral students, every article has been anonymously reviewed by two referees before publication. Its scope is multidisciplinary, covering studies in history, geography, anthropology, sociology, political science and economy.

SAN - The South Asian Network
Promotes the health and empowerment of people of South Asian origin living in California, and fills a critical service gap in the South Asian Community, which traditionally has been underserved by public interest organizations.

SARAI - South Asia Resource Access on the Internet
is hosted by Columbia University and is one of the best sources for finding web-based information in South Asian studies. It provides useful links to reference and bibliographical resources, e-journals, e-news, e-boooks, and also International Directory of South Asian scholars.

SARN - the South Asia Research Network
has been created to promote the production, exchange, and dissemination of basic research information in the social sciences and humanities. It provides links to electronic publications, research notes, abstracts, research centres, and conferences.

SASNET - The Swedish South Asian Studies Network
is a national network for research, education, and information about South Asia, based at Lund University. It encourages and promotes an open and dynamic networking process in which Swedish researchers co-operate with researchers in South Asia and globally.

SAWNET - the South Asian Women Network
is a useful medium of communication about South Asian women. it exists entirely in the electronic medium and its mailing list is run by a group of volunteer moderators that reaches over 700 women in four continents.

INFLIBNET - The information and Library Network Centre
is the product of the Indian University Grants Commission, involved in creating infrastructure for sharing information among academic and research institutions. It is a good source for books, serials, and theses databases available in university libraries in India.

India Findrouter
Search engine and web directory for India.

The World Bank
Data, projects and research on South Asia.

 

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