Basic Resources

Encyclopedia of Nationalism San Diego, Calif. ; London : Academic Press, c2001. 2 vols.
Vol 1: Fundamental Themes: 46 signed in-depth essays (with bibliographies) on disciplinary approaches, regional histories, and broad thematic issues. Vol 2: Leaders, Movements, and Concepts: More than 500 brief entries.
Dana Call Number: Ref. JC311.E4996 2001

The Nationalism Project
"An extensive collection of materials related to the study of nationalism including: essays, articles, dissertations, book abstracts and reviews, subject bibliographies, a bibliography of over 2,000 journal articles, and links to nationalism-related resources." A lot of useful information; unfortunately the journal articles bibliography is arranged by journal title and is not searchable. Maintained by Dr. Eric Zuelow.

Internet Modern History Sourcebook: Nationalism
19th and early 20th century texts relating to cultural, liberal, and triumphal nationalism.

Bibliographies

Nationalism: A Selected Bibliography Daniel Unowsky (Univeristy of Memphis)

Aspects of Social Change in South East Asia: Bibliography From the Faculty of Modern History at the University of Oxford.

Select Research Bibliography on the Partition of India Compiled by Vinay Lal, Department of History, UCLA

Bibliography on South Asian Agrarian History Annotated list of books and articles up to about 1992. Draft prepared for the AHA Guide to Historical Literature.

Hindu Nationalism From the Monterey Educators Against War.

Finding Books: Library Catalogs

IRIS The online catalog for the Rutgers University Libraries. Relevant subject headings that you can use in IRIS include:

• Nationalism History 19th Century
• Nationalism [country name]
For example: "nationalism india"
• Nationalism and Feminism
• Nationalism Religious Aspects
• Nationalists [country name]
For example: "nationalists Ireland"
• [group] Ethnic Identity
For example: "sikhs ethnic identity"
• National Liberation Movements
• Self-Determination, National

Searching for Primary Source Materials?

In IRIS, do a subject search including one of these sub-headings:

• Personal Narratives
For example: "india history partition 1947- personal narratives"
• Correspondance
For example: "ghandi mahatma 1869-1948 correspondance"
• Diaries
• Interviews
• Sources
For example: "nationalism Ireland History 19th century sources"

Need More?

Center for Research Libraries
CRL is consortium of North American university and independent research libraries that acquires and preserves newspapers, journals, documents, foreign dissertations, archives, and other expensive or hard to find materials. As Rutgers is a CRL member, these materials are considered part of Rutgers' collections and can be borrowed via Interlibrary Loan. CRL has a large South Asian Studies collection.

RedLightGreen
Search across the collections of a large number of research libraries; identify relevant works and the best subject headings to use to find books on specific topics; and find out if an item is available at Rutgers or another library. Based on the over 120 million items found in the collections of the Research Libraries Group (RLG).

WorldCat
More than 52 million bibliographic records representing holdings information from libraries in forty-five countries. Many New Jersey libraries, including Rutgers, contribute records on a daily basis, so if you want to know if a book is owned by a nearby library this is a good place to check.

Finding Articles plus: Indexes

Google Scholar
Use the Google search engine to search specifically for scholarly literature including books, peer-reviewed articles, theses, preprints, and technical reports. Links to the full-text of articles from open access (available without a subscription) journals and preprint repositories.

Asian Studies

Bibliography of Asian Studies. Ann Arbor, Michigan, Association for Asian Studies, 1968-
Index to Western-language books, articles, book chapters, and conference papers on all parts of Asia arranged by geographical area and subject.
Dana Call Number: Ref. Z3001 .B498 Dana Holdings: 1970-1988
1956-1968 published as the September issue of the Journal of Asian Studies; available online via JSTOR.

History

America: History and Life
1964- . The most comprehensive index to American (U.S. and Canada) history. Indexes over 2000 journals worldwide, as well as book reviews and dissertations. Search Guide available. Restricted Access.

American Periodicals Series Online 1740-1900
The full text of articles, advertisements, illustrations etc., from American popular and literary magazines and journals that began publication between 1741 and 1900. Search by author, title, article type, publication title, date, and keywords in the full-text. Restricted Access.

Historical Abstracts
1955- . The most comprehensive index to world history (excluding that of the U.S. and Canada) from 1450 to the present. Indexes over 2,000 history and history-related journals worldwide, as well as book reviews and dissertations. Search Guide available. Restricted Access.

Political Science and Public Policy

PAIS International 1972-
Index to books, reports, government documents, and journals dealing with political, social, and public policy issues. Restricted Access.

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts 1975-
Index to over 1,300 journals in political science, international relations, public policy and related fields. Restricted Access.

CIAO: Columbia International Affairs Online
Full-text journal articles, policy briefs, working papers, and conference proceedings, as well as extensive information on the nations and regions of the world. Restricted Access.

Linguistics

LLBA, Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts 1973-. Major index to the literature of linguistics, including anthropological linguistics, psycholinguistics, and sociolinguistics. Restricted Access.

Sociology

SocioFile 1974-
Index to approximately 1900 journals in sociology and related disciplines. Rutgers-restricted Access.

Countries and Cultures

Country Studies
Online versions of the Country Studies/Area Handbooks series published by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress. A basic resource for an overview of a particular country. Note: The Handbooks found here are electronic versions of studies published between 1988 and 1998, when Congress withdrew funding for this program. Funding was restored in 2004 and new editions should be coming available.

CountryWatch
Includes reports on 191 countries worldwide with up-to-date political, economic, cultural, business, and environmental information, as well as current and archived country-specific news. Restricted Access.

Levinson, David, ed. Encyclopedia of World Cultures. 10 vols. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1991-1996.
Each volume is devoted to a geographic area and includes a cultural map for that area. There is an entry for each cultural group including information on location, linguistic affiliation, history and cultural relations, settlements, economy, kinship, marriage and family, sociopolitical organization, religion and expressive culture, as well as a list of publications about both the traditional and current culture.
Dana Call Number: Ref. GN550 .E53 1991.

Cambridge Encyclopedia of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan and the Maldives. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1989.
Over 400 signed essays on the peoples, history, geography, demography, politics, religion, economy, and culture of each country.
Dana Call Number: Ref. DS334.9.C36 1989

Bhattacharya, Sachchidananda. Dictionary of Indian History. New York, Braziller, 1967.
Dana Call Number: Ref. DS433.B48 1967b

Taylor, David. Pakistan. (World Bibliographical Series 10) Santa Barbara, California, 1990.
Extremely useful annotated bibliography of the English-language literature (books and articles) on Pakistan.
Dana Call Number: Ref. Z3196 .T39 1990

Gender and Class

Women

Women's Studies International
1972- Comprehensive index to women's studies resources. Incorporates citations from Women Studies Abstracts, Women's Studies Bibliography Database, and the Women's Studies Database, among others. Restricted Access.

ViVa: A Bibliography of Women's History in Historical and Women's Studies Journals
Index to over seven thousand articles on women's and gender history published from 1975 to the present in historical and women's studies journals.

Women in Politics Bibliographic Database
Index with abstracts to books, articles and reports produced throughout the world on the subject of women in politics. From the Inter-Parliamentary Union.

Pandit, Harshida. Women of India: An Annotated Bibliography. New York, Garland, 1985.
Dana Call Number: Ref. HQ1742 .P36 1985

Johnson, Donald Clay. A Guide to Writings By or About Women in Pre-Independent India

Caste

Ambedkar, B. R. The Annihilation of Caste
First published in Bombay in 1936. Text reprinted from: Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar: Writings and Speeches, Vol. 1. Bombay: Education Department, Government of Maharashtra, 1979, pp. 25-96. Edited for classroom use by Prof. Frances W. Pritchett, Columbia University.

Dalit Literature Review
Partially annotated bibliography compiled by Moses Seenarine. Includes separate sections on the Dalit Movement, Dalit Women, Caste in Karnataka, and Caste and Subaltern Consciousness.

A Dalit Bibliography.
Simon Charsley (Glasgow University). Arranged by literature directly relevant to Karnataka; literature relating to surrounding states: Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra and Kerala; Elsewhere in India.

Digital Collections

Internet Modern History Sourcebook: Imperialism
Internet Islamic History Sourcebook
Internet Indian History Sourcebook

Books by Gandhi and on Gandhi
Digital collection from the Official Mahatma Gandhi eArchive & Reference Library Mahatma Gandhi Foundation - India.

Digital South Asia Library
Includes online books, journals, images, maps, and statistics. A project of the Center for Research Libraries.

Digital Colonial Documents (India)
A project of La Trobe University, Curtin University, The University of New England and the University of Sydney in Australia.

SARAI: South Asia Resource Access on the Internet
Includes links to online books, journals, and images. From the Columbia University Libraries.

Historical Maps

Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection: Historical Maps
Online maps arranged by regions of the world. From the University of Texas in Austin. See their Historical Map Sites for links to many other digital historical map collections.

A Historical Atlas of South Asia. New York, Oxford, 1992.
From pre-history to 1991. In addtition to maps includes time charts, town plans, and photographs.
Dana Call Number: Ref. G2261 .S1H5 1992

Historical Maps of India
Compilation of links to digital maps.

A Social and Economic Atlas of India. New York, Oxford University Press, 1987.
Sections on land, people, climate, natural resources, infrastructure, produce, tourist vista, national economy and international equation. Maps accompanied by analytical text, trend analysis, and tabular data.
Dana Call Number: Ref. G2281 .G1T8 1987

Statistics

Mitchell, B. R. International Historical Statistics: Africa, Asia & Oceania, 1750-1993. 3rd edition. New York, Stockton Press, 1998.
Dana Call Number: Ref. HA4675 .M552 1998

Mitchell, B. R. International Historical Statistics: Europe, 1750-1993. 4th edition. New York, Stockton Press, 1998.
Dana Call Number: Ref. HA1107.M57 1998

Historical Data
Statistical abstracts relating to British India from 1840-1920. Data available both as digital pages and Excel spreadsheets. Part of the Digital South Asia Library.

Census of India Reports from 1871-1901
General summaries of information related to the data collected in the census of the years 1871-2, 1881, 1891 and 1901. Includes all the data tables for the 1881 census. Part of the Digital Colonial Documents Project (India) of La Trobe University, Curtin University, The University of New England and the University of Sydney in Australia.

Statistical Yearbook for Asia and the Pacific. 1973-
Dana Call Number: Ref. HA1665 .U54

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Corrections?
Natalie Borisovets (natalieb@andromeda.rutgers.edu)
John Cotton Dana Library
April 11, 2005