Resources for the
study of rural India
General
sources
Digital South
Asia Library http://dsal.uchicago.edu/
South Asia
Resource Access on the Internet: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/southasia/cuvl/
The Asia
Society:
http://www.asiasociety.org/
Agriculture
Architecture
Archæological
Survey of India. Annual Report, 1902-03. Calcutta: Office of
the Superintendent of Government Printing, India, 1904.
H. Blochmann,
Contributions to the Geography and History of Bengal (Muhammedan
Period). Calcutta: Asiatic Society, 1968 (1873).
Sir John,
Marshall, ed. Annual Report of the Archæological Survey of
India, 1923-24. Calcutta: Government of India Central Publication
Branch, 1926.
Arts
Stephen
Huyler, Painted Prayers: Women's Art in Village India. New
York: Rizzoli, 1994.
Frederick
Asher, The Art of Eastern India: 300-800. Minneapolis:
University of Minneapolis Press, 1980.
Banaras/Varanasi/Kashi
Diana Eck,
Banaras: City of Light. New York: Penguin Books,
1983.
Jonathan P.
Parry, Death in Banaras. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1994.
Christopher
Justice, Dying the Good Death: The Pilgrimage to Die in India's
Holy City. Albany: State University of New York Press,
1997.
Nita Kumar,
The Artisans of Banaras: Popular Culture and Identity,
1880-1986. New Delhi: Orient Longman Limited, 1995 (1988).
University of New York Press, 1997.
Bihar
Ran Chandra
Prasad, Bihar. New Delhi: National Book Trust, 1992
(1983).
Arvind Das,
The Republic of Bihar. New Delhi: Penguin Books,
1992.
Census of
India 1991, Series-1 India, Paper 1 of 1992, Volume I, Final
Population Totals. New Delhi: Government of India Press,
1993.
P.C. Roy
Chaudhury, Bihar District Gazetteers: Shahabad. Patna:
Superintendent Secretariat Press, 1966.
Imperial
Gazetteer of India, Provincial Series: Bengal. Vol. 2. New
Delhi: Usha Publications, 1984 (1909).
Manosi
Lahiri, The Bihar Geographic Information System. Bombay:
Popular Prakashan, 1993.
Previous
visitors to Bihar
Mildred
Archer, Early Views of India: The Picturesque Journeys of Thomas
and William Daniell, 1786-1794. London: Thames and Hudson,
1980.
Francis
Buchanan, Journal of Francis Buchanan. C.E.A.W. Oldham, ed.
Patna: Superintendent, Government Printing, 1926.
W. Crooke,
The Popular Religion and Folklore of Northern India, Vol. 1.
Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal, 1968 (1896).
Alexander
Cunningham, "Report of a Tour in the Central Provinces and Lower
Gangetic Doab in 1881-82," Archaeological Survey of India,
XVII.
George
Abraham Grierson, Bihar Peasant Life, Being a Discursive Catalogue
of the Surroundings of the People of that Province. Delhi: Cosmo
Publications, 1975 (1885).
Jean-Baptiste
Tavernier, Travels in India. V. Ball, trans. Delhi: Oriental
Books Reprint Company, 1977.
Economics
Anand A.
Yang, Bazaar India: Markets, Society, and the Colonial State in
Bihar. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.
The World
Bank Group, The India Poverty Project Poverty and Growth in India,
1951-94: http://www.worldbank.org/poverty/data/indiapaper.htm
Education
Gender
Patricia
Jeffery and Roger Jeffery. Don't Marry Me to a Plowman! Women's
Everyday Lives in Rural North India. Boulder: Westview Press,
1996.
Lindsey
Harlan and Paul Courtright, ed. From the Margins of Hindu
Marriage: Essays on Gender, Religion, and Culture. New York:
Oxford University Press, 1995.
Festivals
S. B. Singh,
Fairs and Festivals in Rural India: A Geospatial Study of Belief
Systems. Varanasi: Tara Book Agency, 1989.
History
Comprehensive
History of Bihar, 3 volumes in 6 parts. Patna: Kashi Prasad
Jayaswal Research Institute, 1983.
S.M. Burke
and Salim Al-Din Quraishi, The British Raj in India: An Historical
Review. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996
(1995).
R.R. Diwakar,
Bihar through the Ages. New Delhi: Orient Longmans,
1959.
Joseph E.
Schwartzberg, A Historical Atlas of South Asia. New York:
Oxford University Press, 1992 (1978).
Peter Hardy,
The Muslims of British India. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1972.
Mushirul
Hasan, Legacy of a Divided Nation: India's Muslims Since
Independence. Boulder: Westview Press, 1997.
Edward Said,
Orientalism. New York: Vintage Books, 1978.
India
An Atlas
of India. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.
Census of
India &endash; 1991 http://www.censusindia.net/
Languages
Lachman M.
Khubchandani, Plural Languages, Plural Cultures: Communication,
Identity, and Sociopolitical Change in Contemporary India. United
States: University of Hawaii Press, 1983.
Amrit Rai,
A House Divided: The Origin and Development of Hindi/Hindavi.
Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1984.
Paul Brass,
Language, Religion and Politics in North India. Delhi: Vikas
Publishing House, 1974.
Medicine
Sudhir Kakar,
Shamans, Mystics, and Doctors: A Psychological Inquiry into India
and Its Healing Traditions. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1994
(1982).
Narratives &
Storytelling
Kirin
Narayan, Storytellers, Saints, and Scoundrels: Folk Narrative in
Hindu Religious Teaching. Philadelphia: University of
Pennsylvania Press, 1989.
Stuart
Blackburn, Peter Claus, Joyce Flueckiger, Susan Wadley, eds. Oral
Epics in India. Berkeley: University of California Press,
1989.
News Sources
The
Hindustan Times: http://www.hindustantimes.com/
India
Today: http://www.india-today.com/itoday/20010924/index.shtml?
The
Newspaper Today: http://www.thenewspapertoday.com/index.phtml?
Politics
Sugata Bose
and Ayesha Jalal, Modern South Asia: History, Culture, Political
Economy. Routledge, 1998.
Ayesha Jalal,
Democracy and Authoritarianism in South Asia: A Comparative and
Historical Perspective. New York: Cambridge University Press,
1995.
Ayesha Jalal,
The Sole Spokesman: Jinnah, the Muslim League and the Demand for
Pakistan, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985.
Religion
Primers
David Knipe,
Hinduism: Experiments in the Sacred. New York: HarperCollins,
1991.
W.H McLeod,
Gur¨ Nånak and the Sikh Religion. Delhi: Oxford
University Press, 1996 (1968).
Donald S.
Lopez, Jr. Religions of India in Practice. Princeton:
Princeton University, 1995.
Islamic
Resources, Middle Eastern Network Information Center, University of
Texas at Austin: http://menic.utexas.edu/menic/islam.html
Reference
Mircea
Eliade, ed. The Encyclopedia of Religion. New York: Macmillan,
1986.
Sacred texts -
Hindu
Wendy Doniger
O'Flaherty, ed. Textual Sources for the Study of Hinduism.
Totawa, New Jersey: Barnes & Noble, 1988.
Wendy
Doniger, trans., The Rig Veda. New York: Penguin,
1981.
Patrick
Olivelle, Upanisads. New York: Oxford University,
1996.
Wendy Doniger
with Brian K. Smith, trans., The Laws of Manu. New York:
Penguin, 1991.
Wendy
O'Flaherty. trans., Hindu Myths. New York: Penguin,
1976.
Cornelia
Dimmitt & J.A.B. van Buitenen, Classical Hindu Mythology: A
reader in the Sanskrit Puranas.New Delhi: Rupa & Co.,
1983.
Sacred texts -
Islamic
A. Yusuf Ali,
trans. The Holy Qur'ån: Text, Translation, and
Commentary. Brentwood, Maryland: Amana Corp., 1983.
Abdul Hamid
Siddiqi, trans. Sahih Muslim, 4 volumes. Lahore: Sh.
Muhammad Ashraf, 1990.
Beliefs
John Stratton
Hawley and Donna Marie Wulff, eds. Devi: Goddesses of India.
Berkeley: University of California, 1996.
Jane Idleman
Smith and Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad, The Islamic Understanding of
Death and Resurrection. Albany: State University of New York
Press, 1981.
Bhakti
Linda Hess,
trans. The B¥jak of Kabir. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass,
1986 (1983).
Charlotte
Vaudeville, A Weaver Called Kabir: Selected Verses with a Detailed
Biographical and Historical Introduction. Delhi: Oxford
University Press, 1997 (1993).
Nirmal Dass,
trans. Songs of Kabir from the Adi Granth. Albany: State
University of New York Press, 1991.
David N.
Lorenzen, Kabir Legends and Ananta-das's Kabir Parachai.
Albany: State University of New York Press, 1991.
Communalism
Peter Van der
Veer, Religious Nationalism: Hindus and Muslims in India.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.
Ashgar Ali
Engineer, Lifting the Veil: Communal Violence and Communal Harmony
in Contemporary India. New Delhi: Sangam Books, 1995.
Ashgar Ali
Engineer, Communal Riots in Post-Independence India. New
Delhi: Sangam Books, 1991 (1984).
Gyanendra
Pandey, The Construction of Communalism in Colonial North
India. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1990.
Sudhir Kakar,
The Colors of Violence: Cultural Identities, Religion, and
Conflict. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.
Gerald James
Larson, India's Agony over Religion. Albany: State University
of New York Press, 1995.
Ashgar Ali
Engineer, Communalism and Communal Violence in India: An
Analytical Approach to Hindu-Muslim Conflict. Delhi: Ajanta
Publications (India), 1989.
Bipan
Chandra, Communalism in Modern India. New Delhi: Vikas
Publishing House, 1984.
Veena Das,
ed. Mirrors of Violence: Communities, Riots and Survivors in South
Asia. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990.
Sandria B.
Freitag, Collective Action and Community: Public Arena and the
Emergence of Communalism in North India. New Delhi: Oxford
University Press, 1984. Basu, Tapan and Pradip Datta, et. al.,
Khaki Shorts and Saffron Flags: A Critique of the Hindu Right.
New Delhi: Orient Longman Limited, 1993.
Walter
Anderson and Shridhar Damle. The Brotherhood in Saffron: The
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and Hindu Revivalism. New Delhi:
Vistaar Publications, 1987.
Vasudha
Dalmia, The Nationalization of Hindu Traditions: Bhåratendu
Harißchandra and Nineteenth-century Banaras. Calcutta:
Oxford University Press, 1997.
Mushirul
Hasan, Nationalism and Communal Politics in India, 1885-1930.
New Delhi: Manohar Publishers, 1991.
Suranjan Das,
Communal Riots in Bengal: 1905-1947. Delhi: Oxford University
Press, 1991.
Lise McKean,
Divine Enterprise: Gurus and the Hindu Nationalist Movement.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.
Christophe
Jaffrelot, The Hindu Nationalist Movement in India. New York:
Columbia University Press, 1996 (1993).
Sarvepalli
Gopal, ed. Anatomy of a Confrontation: The Babri Masjid-Ram
Janmabhumi Issue. New Delhi: Penguin Books, 1991.
Rituals
Ann Grodzins
Gold, Fruitful Journeys: The Ways of Rajasthani Pilgrims.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988.
Jonathan P.
Parry, Death in Banaras. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1994.
Death and
Death Ceremonies. Karachi: Peermahomed Ebrahim Trust,
1972.
Christopher
Justice, Dying the Good Death: The Pilgrimage to Die in India's
Holy City. Albany: State University of New York Press,
1997.
Philip
Lutgendorf, The Life of a Text: Performing the
Råmcartmånas of Tulsidas. Berkeley: University
of California Press, 1991.
Study of
Religion
Wendy Doniger
O'Flaherty, Other People's Myths: The Cave of Echoes. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1988.
Paul Veyne,
Did the Greeks Believe in Their Myths? An Essay on the
Constitutive Imagination. Paula Wissing, trans. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1988 (1983).
Sufism
Richard
Eaton, The Rise of Islam and the Bengal Frontier, 1204-1760.
Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1994.
Regula
Burckhardt Qureshi, Sufi Music of India and Pakistan: Sound,
Context and Meaning in Qawwali. Chicago: The University of
Chicago Press, 1995 (1986).
Arthur
Buehler, Sufi Heirs of the Prophet: The Indian Naqshbandiyya and
the Rise of the Mediating Sufi Shaykh. Columbia: University of
South Carolina Press, 1998.
Asim Roy,
The Islamic Syncretistic Tradition in Bengal. Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 1983.
Michael
Gilsenan, Recognizing Islam. New York: Pantheon Books,
1982.
Clifford
Geertz, Islam Observed: Religious Development in Morocco and
Indonesia. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1968.
Society
S.P. Jain,
The Social Structure of Hindu-Muslim Community. Delhi:
National Publishing House, 1975.
Caste
Satadal
Dasgupta, Caste, Kinship and Community: Social System of a Bengali
Caste. Hyderabad: Universities Press, 1993 (1986).
Village
life
historical
William
Crooke, A Glossary of North Indian Peasant Life. New York:
Oxford University Press, 1989 (1879).
W. Crooke,
The Popular Religion and Folklore of Northern India, Vol. 1.
Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal, 1968 (1896).
George
Abraham Grierson, Bihar Peasant Life, Being a Discursive Catalogue
of the Surroundings of the People of that Province. Delhi: Cosmo
Publications, 1975 (1885).
non-fiction
Susan Wadley,
Struggling with Destiny in Karimpur, 1925-1984. Berkeley:
University of California Press, 1994.
"Looking
Behind Mud Walls: The Village of Karimpur, 1925 - 1998" (a slide show
based on 74 years of ethnography in a North Indian village)
http://www.maxwell.syr.edu/southasiacenter/karimpur/
Ronald Inden,
Imagining India. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Blackwell
Publishers, 1990.
fiction
Premchand,
The Gift of a Cow. Gordon C. Roadarmel. London: Lokamaya
Press, 1968 (1936).
Mudra
Rakshasa, The Hunted. Robert A. Hueckstedt, trans. New Delhi:
Penguin Books, 1992 (1987).
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