Literature Guide: South Asia

WCIU Journal: Area Studies Topic

August 9, 2019

Compiled by Timothy Skinner, MLS

Library of Congress Classification

DS 331 – DS 498  South Asian history                     

P 94.5 .S68  South Asians in mass media      

Z 675 .S67  South Asian libraries                  

Dewey Decimal Classification

954  South Asian history

Library of Congress Subject Headings

Art, South Asian                    

Ethnology—South Asia                                 

Indo-Aryan languages

Indo-Iranian literature             

Short stories, South Asian                             

South Asia                 

Periodicals

Journal of South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies              

Journal of South Asian Literature                  

South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies

Reference Works

A Companion to South Asia in the Past (2016)

A Dictionary of Old Marathi (2000)

Dictionary of South and Southeast Asian Art (2005)

Encyclopedia of Sri Lanka (2006)

Ethnic Groups of South Asia and the Pacific: An Encyclopedia (2012)

Garland Encyclopedia of World Music (1999). Vol. 5: South Asia: The Indian Subcontinent

A Historical Atlas of South Asia (1978)

South Asian Folklore: An Encyclopedia (2002)

Books

General and Miscellaneous

Brower, Barbara, and Barbara Rose Johnston, eds. 2007. Disappearing Peoples?: Indigenous Groups and Ethnic Minorities in South and Central Asia. Abingdon-on-Thames, UK: Routledge.

Devotta, Neil, ed. 2015. An Introduction to South Asian Politics. Abingdon-on-Thames, UK: Routledge.

Doron, Assa, ed. 2013. Health, Culture, and Religion in South Asia. Abingdon-on-Thames, UK: Routledge.

Hagerty, Daniel T., ed. 2015. South Asia in World Politics. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.

Hakala, Walter. 2016. Negotiating Languages: Urdu, Hindi, and the Definition of Modern South Asia. New York: Columbia University Press.

Mani, Muthukumara. 2018. South Asia’s Hotspots: The Impact of Temperature and Precipitation Changes on Living Standards. Washington DC: World Bank Publications.

Mines, Diane, and Sarah E. Lamb, eds. 2010. Everyday Life in South Asia. 2nd ed. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.

History

Bose, Sugata, and Ayesha Jalal. 2011. Modern South Asia: History, Culture, Political Economy. 3rd ed. Abingdon-on-Thames, UK: Routledge.

Duhe, Saurabh, ed. 2011. Modern Makeovers: Handbook of Modernity in South Asia. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Gilbert, Mark Jason. 2017. South Asia in World History. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Ludden, David. 2002. India and South Asia: A Short History. London: One World Publications.

Arts and Literature

Bronner, Yigal. 2010. Extreme Poetry: The South Asian Movement of Simultaneous Narration. New York: Columbia University Press.

Courtney, David R., and Chandrakantha N. Courtney. 2015. The Music of South Asia: An Institutionally Appropriate Approach to the Classical Music of India, Bangladesh, and Pakistan. Purulia: Sur Sangeet Services.

Gopal, Sangita. 2012. Conjugations: Marriage and Form in New Bollywood Cinema. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Perara, Sasanka, and Dev Nath Pathak, eds. 2019. Intersections of Contemporary Art, Anthropology, and Art History in South Asia: Decoding Visual Worlds. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Stirr, Anna Marie. 2017. Singing Across Divides: Music and Intimate Politics in Nepal. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Widdess, Richard. 2017. Dapha: Sacred Singing in a South Asian City: Music, Performance, and Meaning in Nepal. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Religion

Jeffrey, Robin, and Ronojoy Sen, eds. 2014. Being Muslim in South Asia: Diversity and Daily Life. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Mattai, Sushil, and Gene Thursby, eds. 2006. Religions of South Asia: An Introduction. Abingdon-on-Thames, UK: Routledge.

Metcalf, Barbara E., ed. 2009. Islam in South Asia in Practice. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Robinson, Francis. 2001. Islam and Muslim History in South Asia. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Universities with a Center for South Asian Studies

Australian National University                       

Columbia University

 Cornell University                                          

Emory University

Harvard University                                        

Johns Hopkins University

Middlebury College                                       

National University of Singapore 

Triangle Consortium, North Carolina             

University of California – Berkeley

University of California – Los Angeles         

University of California – Santa Cruz

University of Chicago                                    

University of Illinois – Urbana

University of Iowa                                         

University of Michigan

University of Pennsylvania                            

University of Texas – Austin

University of Virginia                                    

University of Washington

University of Wisconsin – Madison

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