#Course hero c269 task3 series

Areas Not Primarily under British Controlġ. Students of the history of India and Pakistan can only say of the small but devoted band of bibliographers now at work on South Asian source materials: 'May their tribe increase!' University of California, Santa BarbaraĪ. More such aids to research are needed, both to bring order into the immense body of unreferenced sources already extant and to cope with the increasing flow of new publications being issued in all parts of the world. Is compiling a guide to reference works on modern South Asian history. Joshi of the National Archives of India is preparing a guide to archival collections in India and Katharine S. Pearson of the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, has in view a complete index to the periodical literature relating to all periods of South Asian history Henry Scholberg of the University of Minnesota has in press a bibliography of the gazetteers of India V. To name only a few of the bibliographic projects now under way: J. Case has done for periodicals, disser tations, and newspapers other scholars have done and are doing for mono graphs, reference works, government documents, archival holdings, and pamphlets. We have here a Guide in the best sense of the word: not a complete inventory, but a careful selection, evaluation, and arrangement of those items of a particular kind which the researcher should be aware of from the outset of his inquiry. Case's preliminary listing provides a solid foundation. Such efforts at preservation will be greatly aided by the future, complete census of South Asian newspapers for which Mrs.

To halt this irreparable loss, these newspapers must be microfilmed-an immense task now being under taken by various institutions, but most actively by the Inter Documenta tion Company of Zug, Switzerland.

Tragically, many if not most of these newspapers no longer exist in complete files, and even now the climate and vermin of South Asia are steadily reducing to powder innu merable unique pages of newsprint. The listing of nineteenth and twentieth century South Asian newspapers which concludes the volume draws our attention to a still larger, and even less-explored, body of source material.

#Course hero c269 task3 series

Case is in effect opening up a series of Pandora's boxes, whose contents will force research scholars to consider many ques tions and problems hitherto overlooked. By guiding us to these sources of information and interpretation Mrs. Many scholars using this book may experience the same mixture of delight and dismay with which I discovered, even in those sections closest to my own research interests, important articles of which I previ ously had no knowledge. The principal portions of the work, systematically arranged under twelve major headings and one hundred forty-four sub-headings, refer us to over six thousand articles and dissertations, most of them little known. Because modern South Asian history is a relatively new field of historical study, and be cause the sources for it are widely scattered, reference works such as this Guide are of unusual value. H A Y This volume greatly extends our bibliographical control over several types of source material important for the study of the history of the IndiaPakistan subcontinent during the past two centuries. Printed in the United States of America by Princeton University PressįOREWORD BY S T E P H E N N. PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY 1968Ĭopyright © 1968 by Princeton University Press ALL RIGHTS RESERVED L.C. SOUTH ASIAN HISTORY 1750-1950 A Guide to Periodicals Dissertations and Newspapers MARGARET H.