In order to have off-campus access to all of the databases that will be useful for this assignment, make sure that you follow the instructions on how to connect to the library from home.
A keyword search is probably the easiest way to get started. Remember that you might have to use more than one spelling of a word or try terms in different languages (ie: bharat mata OR Mother India ). Once you find some titles that are useful, click on the Library of Congress subject headings to search further.
For this assignment, the following subject headings might be useful--they are just a sample of relevant subject headings that you might want to look at:
The list below represents a sample of options, use Cruzcat to find more.
Women - India - Drama
Women - India - History
Women - India
Women - India - Painting
Women - India - Pictorial Works
Sex Roles - India
Painting - India
Search Cruzcat, then Melvyl and Worldcat using the subject headings that best match your topic.
Listed below are some of the books found in McHenry Reference that were discussed in our Library session -- You might also want to browse the reference and regular stacks in the N73900-N7415 and DU ranges:
Devi : goddesses of India/ edited by John S. Hawley Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996.BL1216.2 .D48 1996. (available online via escholarship)
Women's lives, women's rituals in the Hindu tradition/ edited by Tracy Pintchman. Oxford; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007. BL1237.46 .W67 2007.
Pop culture India!: media, arts, and lifestyle/ Asha Kasbekar. Santa Barbara: 2006. DS428.2 .K38 2006.
Encyclopedia of India/ Stanley A. Wolpert, editor in chief. Detroit: Charles Scribner's Sons: Thomson Gale, 2006. DS405 .E556 2006.
India : a global studies handbook / Fritz Blackwell. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, 2004. DS407 .B63 2004.
Cultural atlas of India: India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh & Sri Lanka/ Gordon Johnson. New York : Facts on File, c1996. DS421 .J6 1996.
India 2001: reference encyclopedia. Columbia, MO: South Asia Publications, c1995- DS405 .I62 1995.
The Cambridge encyclopedia of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, SriLanka, Nepal, Bhutan, and the Maldives/ editor, Francis Robinson. Cambridge [ England]; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989. DS334.9.C36 1989.
Women and religion in India: an annotated bibliography of sources in English, 1975-92/ Nancy Auer Falk.
Kalamazoo , Mich.: New Issues Press, College of Arts and Sciences, Western Michigan University, 1994. BL2015.W6 F35 1994.
Women at work in India: a bibliography / compiled by Suchitra Anant, S.V. Ramani Rao, Kabita Kapoor ( Institute of Social Studies Trust New Delhi; Beverly Hills: Sage, c1986-. HD6189.A52 1986.
Women of India : an annotated bibliography/ Harshida Pandit. New York: Garland Pub., 1985. HQ1742.P36 1985.
Encyclopaedia of women in South Asia/ editors, Sangh Mittra, Bachchan Kumar. Delhi, India: Kalpaz Pub., 2004. HQ1735.3 .E53 2004.
Encyclopaedia of Hindi cinema/ editorial board, Gulzar, Govind Nihalani, Saibal Chatterjee. New Delhi: Encyclopaedia Britannica ( India) Pvt. Ltd., 2003. PN1993.5.I8 E539 2003.
Women's studies in India: information sources, services, and programmes/ compiled by Anju Vyas, Sunita Singh. Newbury Park: Sage Publications, 1993. HQ1181.I4V93 1993.
Once you have browsed the print reference materials, you will be better prepared for searching the electronic databases. Some of the databases listed below contain bibliographic citations, others contain full-text.
In order to have off-campus access to all of the databases that will be useful for this assignment, make sure that you follow the instructions on how to connect to the library from home.