Resources
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.
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.