Research Guides: HIS 436/SAS 436: Working Class Lives on the Indian Subcontinent: Reference Resources

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Reference works are useful for orienting yourself to a given topic and for pointing you toward other resources that can help with your research.

Works on class, caste, and labor:
- Oxford Bibliographies Online:
  - Political Economy of India
    - Annotated bibliographies by experts in the field about particular topics.
  - Child Labor
    - On the left side, scroll to the regional studies for Asia.
  - State-Society Relations in South Asia
    - On the left side, scroll to Labor-State Linkages.
  - Indian Indentured Servitude in the Atlantic World
  - Caste by Deepa Reddy (anthropologist)
  - Caste by Surinder S. Jodhka (sociologist)
- Oxford Research Encyclopedias
  - See the entry for Contemporary Perspectives on Labor History in India.
  - See the entry for Unfree Labor in Colonial South Asia.
  - There are many other relevant entries that you can find by Boolean searching, e.g. labor AND India.
- Routledge Handbooks Online
  - For caste, see the following:
    - "Caste in India" in the Routledge International Handbook of Diversity Studies.
    - "Caste and political parties in India" in the Routledge Handbook of Indian Politics.
    - "Caste: why does it still matter?" in the Routledge Handbook of Contemporary India.
    - "Caste and The Conundrum Of Religion And Development In India" in the Routledge Handbook of Religions and Global Development.
    - "Communal and caste politics and conflicts in India" in the Routledge Handbook of South Asian Politics.
  - See the chapter "Labor" in the Handbook of Contemporary Bangladesh.
  - See the chapter "The Market for Mobile Labour in Early Modern North India" in the Handbook of the South Asian Diaspora.
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HIS 436/SAS 436: Working Class Lives on the Indian Subcontinent

Getting Started

Works on class, caste, and labor:

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