India 1947-1984
(see also India, India: Independence Movement, India: Kashmir, India: Kerala, India: Bengal & India: Sikhs, India: Muslims, India: Assam & Hindu Nationalism)
Basics
CIA World Factbook. Includes map.
UN Development Program, Human Development Indicators.
On the Web: Articles
On the Web: Specialized Sites
In the Library: Articles
An Observer. "The crisis in India," Monthly Review 17,4 (9/75):40-50.
Glass, Ruth. "Exit Mrs. Gandhi," Monthly Review 29,3 (7-8/77):61-81.
Gough, Kathleen. "The green revolution in South India & North Vietnam," Monthly Review 29,8 (1/78):10-21.
Harrison, Selig S. "Hindu society & the State: the Indian Union," in Kalman Silvert (ed.) Expectant Peoples: Nationalism & Development (NY: Vintage, 1967), pp. 267-99.
Kesselman, Amrita & Mark Kesselman. "Class, communalism & official complicity: India after Indira," Monthly Review 36,8 (1/85):13-21.
Lifschultz, Lawrence. "The problem of India," Monthly Review 32,9 (2/81):1-11.
Selbourne, David. "State & ideology in India," Monthly Review 31,7 (12/79):25-37.
In the Library: Non-Fiction Books
Agarwal, A. & S. Narain (eds.) The State of India's Environment, 1984-85: The Second Citizen's Report (New Delhi: Centre for Science & Environment, 1985).
Akbar, M.J. India: The Siege Within (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1985).
Ali, Tariq. An Indian Dynasty: The Story of the Nehru-Gandhi Family (NY, 1985).
Bakshi, Shiri Ram. Vinoba Bhave: Socio-Political Ideology (New Delhi: Anmol, 1993).
Bandyopadhyay, J.; N.D. Jayal, U. Schoettli & C. Singh (eds.) India's Environment: Crises & Responses (Dehra ;Dun: Natraj, 1985).
Bettelheim, Charles. India Independent (NY: Monthly Review, 1968).
Blaise, Clark & Bharati Mukherjee. The Sorrow & the Terror: The Haunting Legacy of the Air India Tragedy (Markham ONT: Viking, 1987).
Brass, Paul R. Language, Religion & Politics in North India (NY: Cambridge, 1974).
Breckenridge, Carol A. & Peter van der Veer (eds.) Orientalism & the Postcolonial Predicament: Perspectives on South Asia (Philadelphia: U. Pennsylvania, 1993).
Butalia, Urvashi. The Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition of India (Durham NC: Duke U., 2000). Oral history of traumatic separation from Pakistan & Bangladesh in late 1940's.
Chatterjee, Partha. The Nation & its Fragments: Colonial & Postcolonial Histories (Princeton: Princeton U, 1993).
__________ (ed.) State & Politics in India (NY: Oxford, 1997).
__________ (ed.) Wages of Freedom: Fifty Years of the Indian Nation-State (NY: Oxford, 1998).
Collins, Larry & Dominique Lapierre. Freedom at Midnight (NY: Simon & Schuster, 1975). On independence & partition.
del Vasto, Lanza. Gandhi to Vinoba: The New Pilgrimage (NY: Schocken, 1974).
Freeman, James M. Scarcity & Opportunity in an Indian Village (Prospect Heights, Illinois: Waveland, 1985).
Ganguly, Sumit. Conflict Unending: India-Pakistan Tensions since 1947 (NY: Columbia, 2001).
Gough, Kathleen & Hari P. Sharma (eds.) Imperialism & Revolution in South Asia (NY: Monthly Review, 1973).
Hiro, Dilip. Inside India Today (London: Routledge, 1976).
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).
Jeffrey, Roger. The Politics of Health in India (Berkeley: U. California, 1988).
Masani, R.P. The Five Gifts:The Story of Bhoodan & Vinoba Bhave (London: Collins, 1957).
Masani, Zareer. Indira Gandhi: A Biography (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1975).
Mehta, Ved. Portrait of India [1970] (New Haven: Yale, 1993).
Misra, Baba Ram. V for Vinoba: The Economics of the Bhoodan Movement (Bombay: Orient Longmans, 1956).
Murphy, Dervla. On a Shoestring to Coorg: An Experience of South India (London: Murray, 1976).
Naipaul, V.S. An Area of Darkness (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968).
Nair, Kusum. Blossoms in the Dust: The Human Factor in Indian Development (NY: Praeger, 1962).
Nair, T.P. Sankarankutty (ed.) Modern India, Society & Politics in Transition (New Delhi: Inter-India, 1988).
Pandey, Gyanendra. Remembering Partition: Violence, Nationalism & History in India (NY: Cambridge, 2001).
Panikkar, K.M. Hindu Society at Cross Roads (Bombay, 1955).
Pillai, G. Narayana. Social Background of Political Leadership in India (New Delhi: Uppal, 1983).
Pillai, S. Devadas. Aspects of Changing India: Studies in Honour of Prof. G.S. Ghurye (Bomba: Popular Prakashan, 1976).
__________ & Chris Baks (eds.) Winners & Losers: Styles of Development & Change in an Indian Region (Bombay: Popular Prakashan, 1979).
Potter, David C. Government in Rural India (London, 1964).
Sheth, Pravin. Narmada Project: Politics of Eco-Development (New Delhi: Har-Anand, 1994).
Stern, Robert W. Changing India: Bourgeois Revolution on the Subcontinent (NY: Cambridge, 2003).
Tharoor, Shashi. Reasons of State: Political Development & India's Foreign Policy under Indira Gandhi, 1967-1977 (New Delhi: Vikas, 1982).
__________. India: From Midnight to the Millennium (NY: Viking, 1997).
Wolpert, Stanley A. Nehru: A Tryst with Destiny (NY: Oxford, 1996).
In the Library: Fiction
Manto, Saadat Hasan. Partition: Sketches & Stories (trans. Khalid Hasan; NY: Viking, 1991).
__________. Selected Stories (trans. Madan Gupta; New Delhi: Cosmos, 1997).
__________. Black Milk: A Collection of Short Stories (trans. Hamid Jalal; Lahore: Sang-e-Meel, 1997).
__________. Manto's World: A Representative Collection of Saadat Hasan Manto's Fiction & Non-Fiction (trans. Khalid Hasan; Lahore: Sang-e-Meel, 2000).
__________. A Manto Panorama: A Representative Collection of Saadat Hasan Manto's Fiction & Non-Fiction (trans. Khalid Hasan: Lahore: Sang-e-Meel, 2000).
__________. For Freedom's Sake: Selected Stories & Sketches (Karachi: Oxford, 2001).
Mistry, Rohinton. Swimming Lessons, & Other Stories from Firozsha Baag (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1989).
__________. Such a Long Journey (NY: Knopf, 1991).
__________. A Fine Balance (NY: Knopf, 1996).
Scott, Paul. Six Days in Marapore: A Novel [1953] (Chicago: U. of Chicago, 2005).
In the Library: For Young Readers
In the Library: Poetry
In the Library: Drama
In the Library: Photography
CD & Audio
Film & Video:
"India: The Turmoils of the Century" [1994], dir. Arnaud Mandagaran, 120m. From Filmakers' Library.
"Jama Masrid Street Journal" [1979], dir. Mira Nair, 20m. Street life around New Delhi mosque.
"Salaam Bombay" [1988], dir. Mira Nair, 113m. In video stores. Stark dramatic portrayal of lives of poor street children in a megacity.
"Such a Long Journey" [1998], dir. Sturla Gunnarsson, 113m. In video stores. Family drama of Bombay apartment-dwellers, based on Rohinton Mistry novel.