Toolkit for David Campion's class "The British Raj - India 1858-1947"
HISA401-A Fall 2001

Sources for the modern history of South Asia
(3 Sept 2001, Philip McEldowney)

British Parliamentary Papers || Census || Gazetteers || Biographical || Government Reports || Newspapers || Theses and Dissertations || Internet or Databases || Print Indexes

British Parliamentary Papers

• Commisions - Local Government, reforms (Montegu-Chelmsford 1919, Simon Commission 1929), Banking Inquiry (1930), Famine commissions 1870s on through 1920s
• Bills - Ilbert, Widow remarriage
• Statistics - railway, industry (Drain)
  • Eg. John Sims' "A list and index of parliamentary papers relating to India, 1908-1947 (1981) [Z3208.A5 S55]
  • Gerald Barrier's "Punjab history in printed British documents" (1969) [Z3207.P8 B3]
  • India Office Library. "Catalogue of European printed books" (10 volumes, 1964) [Z3209 .G74 1964]
  • "Simon commsion report on India (Indian statutory commission)", 1930
  • Statistics for the late 19th century British India
    at http://dsal.uchicago.edu/statistics/index.html

  Census - from 1870s through 1940s in microfiche (see 3rd floor Periodicals Room, Micfich 12-20, for 1871-1951)

  Gazetteers - Imperial, Provincial, District

• Imperial (26 v. 1907-1909) [DS405 .H95 1907]
• District Gazetteers. "India District gazetteers" [Micfich 1]
• Henry Scholberg, "The district gazetteers of British India. A bibliography" (1970) [Z3201 .S36]

  Biographical

• "Dictionary of National Biography" (Siba Paada Sen, India" (1972) [CT 1502 .S46], Buckland's "Dictionary of Indian biography" (1906) [AldRef DS434 .B8 1906], John F. Riddick's "Who was who in British India" (1998) [CT1503 .R53 1998], Sharma's "National biolgraphical dictionary of India" [CT1503 .S48]
• Autobiographies - Temple ("Men and Events of my time in India," 1882 [DS479 .T28 1882]. "Journals kept in Hyderabad, Kashmir, Sikkim, and Nepal" 1887 [DS485.H9T43 1977]), Fraser (Among Indian rajahs and ryots" 1912 [DS479.1.F85 A3 1912]), etc
• Papers/letters, writings, speeches - Gandhi. See Clemons Library's CD-ROM of Gandhi's "Works" [DS 481 .G3 A133 1999]
  • Eg. Ian A. Baxter's "A brief guide to biographical sources" (at the India Office, 1979) Z5305 .I5 I53 1979

  Government Reports - Administrative annual, provincial departments

• On tribes and castes
• Land revenue settlement
  • Eg. Russell's "The tribes and castes of the Central Provinces of India" (1975 reprint of the 1916 4 volumes) [DS485.C3 R8]
  • Ibbertson's "Punjab Castes" (reprint 1974), Thoburn's "Musalmans and money-lenders in the Punjab" (1886, reprint 1974) [DS485.P19 I2 1974]
  • "Settlement reports of the Central Provinces, Bihar and Punjab." [Micfilm 106]
  • Clive Dewey's "The Settlement literature of the Greater Punjab: a handbook" (1991) [DS 485 .P16 D38 1991]
  • "Final report on the survey and settlement operations (revision) in the District of Champaran (1913-1919)." 1922. [Microfilm]

  Newspapers

• Vernacular press in British India
• Eg. "Selections from the vrnacular newspapers published in the Panjab, North-Western Provinces, Oudh, Central Provinces, Central India, and Rajuptana, received up to" (1882- This is not available in Alderman)
• British press - London Times

  Thesis and dissertations
  [Look at the bibliographies of these masters theses and doctoral dissertations. Search Keyword Anywhere in VIRGO for "thesis and india and history and Virginia"]

• Campion, David. "The Irish influence in the development of Indian nationalism 1870-1947" (1997, University of Virginia, Masters)
• Pinch, William. "Being Vaishnava, becoming Kshatriya : culture, belief, and identity in north India, 1800-1940." (1990, University of Virginia) [Turned into a book " Peasants and Monks"]
• Hill, Christopher. "History in motion : the social ecology of Purnia district, 1770-1960." (1987, University of Virginia)
• Leckey, Thomas Joseph. "Debt structure in rural Bihar, 1870-1930" (1986, University of Virginia, Masters)
• Hagen, James. "Indigenous society, the political economy, and colonial education in Patna District : a history of social change from 1811 to 1951 in Gangetic North India" (1981, University of Virginia)
• Anand Yang's "Control and conflict in an agrarian society : a study of Saran district, 1866-1920." (1976, University of Virginia)
• Philip McEldowney's "Colonial Administration and Social Doctoral University of Virginia)
  Chapters of this are at http://www.lib.virginia.edu/area-studies/SouthAsia/Ideas/CP/intro.html
• Philip McEldowney's "Pindari Society and the Establishment of British Paramountcy in India" (1966 Masters U of Wisconsin) At http://www.lib.virginia.edu/area-studies/SouthAsia/Ideas/pindaris.html

  Internet or databases

• Bibliography of Asian Studies
• Bibliographic sources at the Digital South Asia Libarary
• Search the British Library's Oriental and Indian Office Collections
  at http://dsal.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/oioc.py

  Print indexes

• Guide to Indian Periodical Literature AldRef Z6958.I4 G8
• London Times index. Palmer's 1785-1905 || Official Index 1906-1980 || Combined Indexes

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