R&I Librarian for Humanities and Digital Scholarship
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About South Asian spelling...
Words in South Asian languages can be transliterated several different ways when spelled using Roman characters, so try several ways of spelling people's names or other terms.
- Devanagari (Hindi/Sanskrit/etc) transliteration comparisonOver the years, the ways that languages like Hindi and Sanskrit have been transliterated have changed. When searching, always try "common misspellings"!
- Common Romanization errors in many South Asian languagesWhen searching, always try "common misspellings"!
- ALA-LC Romanization tablesThe official way that libraries will spell someone's name.
Use Reference Sources as a Guide
Third World Women's Literatures by Call Number: Online and PN849.U43 F58 1995ISBN: 0313289883Publication Date: 1995Includes many books by South Asian authors. Most are from the 20th century, but some date back to mid-19th century.
Dig Into Reference Sources
- Oxford Bibliographies This link opens in a new window
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This is a key starting place for research in several different fields, providing bibliographies on current scholarship on topics from the social sciences and humanities. - Reference Universe This link opens in a new window
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Searches the indexes of our library's print reference books. When you find an entry you'd like to read, click the "Locate this book" button or put the title of the reference book into Catalyst to find the book's location in the Reference Collection.
