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History: Suggested Readings: History 351

This guide contains links to suggested readings for various History classes. While these readings aren't mandatory, they can be useful for getting a better understanding of historical events.

South Asia Bibliography (books available at Wiggins Memorial Library)

Nehru : the making of India by Akbar, M. J.
Call Number: DS481.N35 1988
ISBN: 0140100830
Publication Date: 1988
Settlements of hope : an account of Tibetan refugees in Nepal by Armbrecht, Ann
Call Number: DS493.9.T53 F67 1989
ISBN: 0939521458
Publication Date: 1989
Science, technology, and medicine in Colonial India by Arnold, David
Call Number: DS436 .N47 1999 PT.3 V.5
ISBN: 0521563194
This book is also available as an ebook
Developing South Asia by Asian Development Bank Staff
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 9292540114
Publication Date: 2013-01-01
India against itself : Assam and the politics of nationality by Baruah, Sanjib
Call Number: DS485.A88 B355 1999
ISBN: 081223491X
Publication Date: 1999
Pakistan : a country study by Blood, Peter R.
Call Number: DS376.9 .P376 1995
ISBN: 0844408344
Publication Date: 1995
This book is also available online through the Library of Congress at http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/pktoc.html
Pakistan : the continuing search for nationhood by Burki, Shahid Javed
Call Number: DS384 .B878 1991
ISBN: 0813381002
Publication Date: 1991
Pakistan under Bhutto, 1971-1977 by Burki, Shahid Javed
Call Number: DS384 .B88 1980B
ISBN: 0312594712
Toward empowerment : women and movement politics in India by Calman, Leslie J.
Call Number: HQ1743 .C35 1992
ISBN: 0813381037
Essays in celebration of the CISRS silver jubilee by Chatterji, Saral Kumar
Call Number: HN687 .E83 1983
The Pakistan Army by Cohen, Stephen P.
Call Number: UA853.P3 C64 1984
ISBN: 0520049829
Publication Date: 1984
The South Asian religious diaspora in Britain, Canada, and the United States by Coward, Harold G.
Call Number: BL1055 .S68 2000
ISBN: 0791445097
Publication Date: 2000
This book is also available as an ebook
Anglo-Indian attitudes : the mind of the Indian Civil Service by Dewey, Clive
Call Number: JQ224 .D48 1993
ISBN: 1852850973
Publication Date: 1993
The forgotten army : India's armed struggle for independence, 1942-1945 by Fay, Peter Ward
Call Number: D767.63 .F39 1993
ISBN: 0472101269
Publication Date: 1993
Shadow over Afghanistan by Fazel, Fazel Rahman
Call Number: DS371.2 .F39X 1989
ISBN: 0936029110
Publication Date: 1989
India and the Indianness of Christianity : essays on understanding, historical, theological, and bibliographical, in honor of Robert Eric Frykenberg by Frykenberg, Robert Eric
Call Number: BV3265.3 .I525 2009
ISBN: 9780802863928
Publication Date: 2009
The East India Company: a history by Gardner, Brian
Call Number: DS465 .G34 1972
ISBN: 0841501246
Publication Date: 1971
Red flag over Afghanistan : the Communist coup, the Soviet invasion, and the consequences by Hammond, Thomas Taylor
Call Number: DS371.2 .H35 1984
ISBN: 0865314446
Publication Date: 1984
The saffron wave : democracy and Hindu nationalism in modern India by Hansen, Thomas Blom
Call Number: BL1214.P65 H36 1999
ISBN: 0691006709
Publication Date: 1999
The military in British India : the development of British land forces in South Asia, 1600-1947 by Heathcote, T. A.
Call Number: UA649.32.I4 H43 1995
ISBN: 0719035708
Publication Date: 1995
Bangladesh, a country study by Heitzman, James
Call Number: DS393.4 .B372 1990
Publication Date: 1990
This book is also available online through the Library of Congress at http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/bdtoc.html
India : a country study by Heitzman, James
Call Number: DS407 .I4465 1996
ISBN: 0844408336
Publication Date: 1996
This book is also available online throught the library of Congress at http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/intoc.html
High time by Hillary, Louise
Call Number: DS493.53 .H54 1974
ISBN: 0525124802
Publication Date: 1974
The great divide: Britain--India--Pakistan by Hodson, H. V. (Henry Vincent)
Call Number: DS480.45 .H57 1971
Publication Date: 1971
The nations of the Indian subcontinent by Isenberg, Irwin
Call Number: DS335 .I8
ISBN: 0824205219
Publication Date: 1974
Pakistan chronicle by James, Morrice, Sir
Call Number: DS384 .J365 1993
ISBN: 0312094752
Publication Date: 1993
Midnight's Descendants by John Keay
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 9780465080724
Publication Date: 2014-03-11
The magic mountains : hill stations and the British raj by Kennedy, Dane Keith
Call Number: DS412 .K46 1996
ISBN: 0520201884
Publication Date: 1996
This book is also available as an ebook
Nuclear risk reduction in South Asia by Krepon, Michael
Call Number: UA832.7 .N83 2004
ISBN: 1403967024
Publication Date: 2004
Poverty and development by Kurien, C. T.
Call Number: HC435.2 .K8817
Publication Date: 1974
Indians in Britain : Anglo-Indian encounters, race and identity, 1880-1930 by Lahiri, Shompa
Call Number: DA125.S57 L34 2000
ISBN: 0714649864
Publication Date: 2000
Afghanistan : mullah, Marx, and mujahid by Magnus, Ralph H.
Call Number: DS371.2 .M28 1998
ISBN: 0865315132
Publication Date: 1998
Jihad, Hindutva, and the Taliban : South Asia at the crossroads by Malik, Iftikhar Haider
Call Number: BP182 .M345 2005
ISBN: 0195977904
Publication Date: 2005
Colonialization of Islam : dissolution of traditional institutions in Pakistan by Malik, Jamal
Call Number: BP63.P2 M348 1996
ISBN: 8173041482
Publication Date: 1996
Hindu nationalists in India : the rise of the Bharatiya Janata Party by Malik, Yogendra K.
Call Number: JQ298.B55 M35 1994
ISBN: 0813388104
A military history of India and South Asia : from the East India Company to the nuclear era by Marston, Daniel
Call Number: DS442 .M55 2007
ISBN: 0275985709
Publication Date: 2007
Shift in Indian politics : 1983 elections in Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka by Mathew, George
Call Number: DS480.84 .S55
ISBN: 1984
Role of governor in non-Congress states by Mathur, P. L.
Call Number: JQ298.8 .M35 1988
ISBN: 8170330505
Publication Date: 1988
Death to life, Bangladesh : the experience of an American missionary family by McKinley, Jim
Call Number: DS395.5 .M27
ISBN: 1979
Violence and the quest for justice in South Asia by Mehta, Deepak
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 9789352806553
Publication Date: 2018
The Soviet intervention in Afghanistan by Monks, Alfred L.
Call Number: DS371.2 .M66
ISBN: 0844734314
Publication Date: 1981
Asian drama; an inquiry into the poverty of nations by Myrdal, Gunnar
Call Number: HC412 .M9 1972
ISBN: 0394470869
Publication Date: 1972
Bangladesh : reflections on the water by Novak, James J.
Call Number: DS393.4 .N68 1993
ISBN: 0253341213
Publication Date: 1993
Afghanistan : a country study by Nyrop, Richard F.
Call Number: DS351.5 .A34 1986
Publication Date: 1986
This book is also available online through the Library of Congress at http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/aftoc.html
Ethnicity and nation-building in South Asia by Phadnis, Urmila
Call Number: DS341 .P53 1989
ISBN: 0803996071
Publication Date: 1989
Divided Kashmir : old problems, new opportunities for India, Pakistan, and the Kashmiri people by Rahman, Mushtaqur
Call Number: DS485.K27 R33 1996
ISBN: 1555875890
Publication Date: 1996
Terrifying Muslims : race and labor in the South Asian diaspora by Rana, Junaid Akram
Call Number: BP52.5 .R363 2011
ISBN: 9780822348887
Publication Date: 2011
This book is also available as an ebook.
The fragmentation of Afghanistan : state formation and collapse in the international system by Rubin, Barnett R.
Call Number: DS371.2 .R8 1995
ISBN: 0300059639
Publication Date: 1995
Indian society and social institutions by Sharma, Ram Nath
Call Number: HN683.5 .S472 1980
Publication Date: 1980
Pakistan, China, and America by Sherwani, Latif Ahmed
Call Number: DS383.5.C5 S5
Publication Date: 1980
Gandhi's dilemma : nonviolent principles and nationalist power by Steger, Manfred B.
Call Number: HM1281 .S74 2000
ISBN: 0312221770
Publication Date: 2000
South Asia's Weak States by T. V. Paul (Editor)
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 9780804778534
Publication Date: 2010-01-01
Religion and society : the first twenty-five years, 1953-1978 by Taylor, Richard W.
Call Number: BL2010 .R357 1982
Publication Date: 1982
The break-up of Sri Lanka : the Sinhalese-Tamil conflict by Wilson, A. Jeyaratnam
Call Number: DS489.8 .W53 1988
ISBN: 0824812115
Publication Date: 1988
India, Pakistan, and the Kashmir dispute : on regional conflict and its resolution by Wirsing, Robert
Call Number: DS485.K27 W57 1994
ISBN: 0312084420
Publication Date: 1994
Pakistan's security under Zia, 1977-1988 : the policy imperatives of a peripheral Asian state by Wirsing, Robert
Call Number: UA853.P3 W57 1991
ISBN: 031206067X
Publication Date: 1991
The long partition and the making of modern South Asia : refugees, boundaries, histories by Zamindar, Vazira Fazila-Yacoobali
Call Number: DS480.842 .Z37 2007
ISBN: 9780231138468
Publication Date: 2007
This book is also available as an ebook.