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India: Colonial Period & General

(see also India: Independence Movement &, India since Independence, India: Kerala, India: Bengal, India: Sikhs, India: Muslims, India: Mumbai & India: Kashmir)


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Basics:

On the Web: Articles

On the Web: Specialized Sites

A Tribute to Hinduism.

Samachar

WWW Virtual Library

In the Library: Articles

Butalia, Urvashi. "Mother India," New Internationalist (3/96):26-27. Nationalism.

Dixit, Kanak Mani. "South Asia at the brink," Nation (1/28/02):2.

Sen, Amartya. "India & the West," New Republic (6/7/93).

__________. "Indian traditions & the Western imagination," Daedalus (spr 97).

In the Library: Non-Fiction Books

Ali, Tariq. An Indian Dynasty: The Story of the Nehru-Gandhi Family (NY, 1985).

Cox, Jeffrey. Imperial Fault Lines: Christianity & Colonial Power in India, 1818-1940 (Stanford: Stanford, 2002).

Gandhi, Mohandas K. Gandhi: An Autobiography [1927-29] (Boston: Beacon, 1957).

Isaacs, Harold R. Scratches on Our Minds (NY: John Day, 1958; reissued as Images of Asia: American Views of China & India (NY: Harper & Row, 1972).

Kaul, Suvir. Partitions of Memory (Indiana University Press, 2003).

Kumar, Radha. The History of Doing: An Illustrated Account of Movements for Women's Rights & Feminism in India, 1800-1990 (NY: Verso, 1993).

Masani, Zareer. Tales of the Raj (Berkeley: U. of California, 1988).

Schmidt, Karl J. An Atlas & Survey of South Asian History (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1995)

Schwartzberg, Joseph E. A Historical Atlas of South Asia (NY: Oxford, 1992).

Sen, Kshiti Mohan. Hinduism (Harmondsworth: Pengui, 1960).

Singh, Khushwant. Train to Pakistan (London: Greenwood, 1988).

______________. This My People (NY: Rizzoli International, 1990).

Sivaramakrishnan, K. Modern Forests: Statemaking & Environmental Change in Colonial Eastern India (Stanford: Stanford, 1999).

Stein, Burton. A History of India (Malden MA: Blackwell, 1998).

van der Veer, Peter. Imperial Encounters: Religion & Modernity in India & Britain (Princeton: Princeton U, 2001).

Wolpert, Stanley A. Nehru: A Tryst with Destiny (NY: Oxford, 1996).

In the Library: Fiction

Davidar, David. The House of Blue Mangoes: A Novel (NY: Perennial, 2003).

Markandaya, Kamala. Nectar in a Sieve (NY: New American Library, 1954).

In the Library: Poetry

In the Library: Photography

CD & Audio:

Film & Video:

"Lagaan" [200?], dir. ?, ?m. Bollywood spectacular about cricket & taxation under colonial rule.

 



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