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NOTE: This page was created to help a section of Freshman Seminar, Spring 2006, but will stay up for future reference for anyone researching issues pertinent to the country of India.

Contents

taj_mahal.jpgMaps
Political Map of India


Using the Internet

  1. Get in the habit of applying these evaluation criteria to any open web source you are considering using.
  2. Keep in mind the differences searching the "surface web" vs. the "deep web" (or "invisible web"). The surface web can be searched w/tools like Google and Yahoo. For more in-depth searching of the invisible web, use the licensed WSU Libraries' databases.


Resources on India

Reference Works:
Use these for general
background information
Statistics & Data
Photographs of India:
WSU Collection		WSU MASC's"Photographs of India"
eBook CollectionsNetLibrary
Oxford English Dictionary
University of California ebooks (public titles)



Gender and Caste Systems / Global Caste Discrimination (Apartheid)

Reference books:

Databases (for current information):

Other terms:

  • Social Stratification, outcaste, class, status, social classes, cliques, mobility, ethnic stratification, minority groups, race prejudice, discrimination, religious persectuion, ethnocentrism.

Slavery and Human Trafficking

Reference Books

Databases :

  • CQ Researcher (map of human trafficking and other useful graphics and information)
  • Human Rights Watch
  • ProQuest Newspaper, magazine, and journal articles from the 1990s+
  • JSTOR historical journal articles from 1890s to 1990s

Government Documents

This is a rather long document, but there is some good information in it! You can use the Adobe "search" option to look for specific words or terms ("India," or "Trafficking Victims Protection Act." On pages 126-151, they have inserted a National Geographic article on the topic. For more government documents, search the GPO Monthly Catalog.

Bride burning/gender in Indian Society

eHRAF - Online collection of ethnography studies. This database has very authoritative information from first-hand anthropological studies. Of particular interest may be this article on West Bengali women:

      Introduction to second Indian impression: Some contemporary issues in context / Fruzzetti, Lina M.

      Abstract: This is new introduction to the second Indian impression of Fruzzetti's 'Gift of a Virgin' (see document no. 23). She discusses how the commoditization of Indian society has impacted negatively on women's rights and status, in the most extreme circumstances leading to dowry deaths, in which brides are brutalized in an effort to exact higher dowry payments.

Other Indian ethnic groups covered in eHRAF include: Andamans, Badaga, Garo, Khasi, Lepcha, Santal, Sherpa

Child Marriage in India

Media

  • Saheri's Choice [videorecording] : Arranged Marriages in India (2002) WSU Media Material Svs DVD 713
  • Desert of silk [videorecording] (1993) WSU Media Material Svs VHS 15873

Search for other media, films, and recordings from the Griffin catalog.

Griffin keyword searches:

  • Marriage and India
  • Dowry and India
  • Women and India


Religious Conflict in India

Books


E-Books


Multimedia

  • Spiritual India [videorecording]: a guide to Jainism, Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism, 1995 WSU Multimedia Services VHS 19741


Databases


Griffin and database keywords and searches

  • India and religion
  • Hinduism and politics and India
  • India and Muslim
  • Religion and politics and India
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