South Asian studies  

University of Toronto Centre for South Asian Studies (CSAS) is a key international hub for critical conversations across the humanities and social sciences on South Asian worlds, both inside and outside the subcontinent.

CSAS publications reflect an interface of approaches that has distinguished South Asia research in recent years, weaving deep specialist and empirical knowledge, transnational methods, gendered readings and cutting-edge theoretical investigation.

Most CSAS Publications are available at the University of Toronto Libraries, as well as for purchase from CSAS .

• City, countryside and society in Maharashtra / ed. D. W. Attwood, M. Israel and N. K. Wagle, 1988
• Canada and South Asia : issues and opportunities / ed. Arthur G. Rubinoff, 1988
• Sikh history and religion in the twentieth century / ed. Joseph T. O'Connell, Milton Israel, Willard G. Oxtoby ; with visiting editors: W.S. McLeod, J.S. Grewal, 1988
• Canada and the states of South Asia/ed. Arthur G. Rubinoff, 1990
• Nehru and the twentieth century / ed. Milton Israel, 1991
• Canada and South Asia : political and strategic relations / ed. Arthur G. Rubinoff, 1992
• Studies on Buddhism in honour of Professor A.K. Warder / ed. N.K. Wagle and F. Watanabe, 1993
• Ethnicity, identity, migration : the South Asian context / ed. Milton Israel and N.K. Wagle, 1993
• The Indira-Rajiv years : the Indian economy and polity, 1966-1991 / ed. Nanda K. Choudhry and Salim Mansur, 1994
• Goa : continuity and change / ed. Narendra K. Wagle and George Coehlo, 1995
• Beyond boundaries : a report on the state of non-official dialogues on peace, security & cooperation in South Asia/Navnita Chadha Behera, Paul M. Evans, Gowher Rizvi, 1997
• Dance of India: history, perspectives, and prospects / ed. David Waterhouse, 1998
• India's crisis resolution : the nuclear issue / ed. Ajit Jain, N.K. Wagle, 1998
• Approaches to Jaina studies : philosophy, logic, rituals and symbols / ed. N.K. Wagle and Olle Qvarnström, 1999
• Pudgalavāda Buddhism : the reality of the indeterminate self / Leonard C.D.C. Priestly, 1999
• Jain doctrine and practice : academic perspectives / ed. Joseph T. O'Connell, 2000
• Rights and privileges : fifty years of the Indian constitution/ed. Ajit Jain, Jesse S. Palsetia and N.K. Wagle, 2003
• Uganda South Asians exodus : Kolobian perspectives/ed. Narendra Wagle, 2002
• Buddhist art of Pakistan and Afghanistan : the Royal Ontario Museum collection of Gandhara sculpture / David Jongeward, 2003
• Economic development in Nepal: issues and strategies / A.P. Adhikari, K.M. Sharma, 1994
• Politics and the economy of Burma today / B. Gulati & N.K. Wagle
• The Indian general election of 1998: a discourse / A. Jain & N. K. Wagle

This guide will help you with your research in South Asian studies.

• Books
• Articles
• Newspapers
• Cultural resources
• Language resources
• Diaspora resources
• Government resources, including statistics

Remember, you can always get help from University of Toronto Libraries staff.

For guide suggestions and broken links, please contact Lana Soglasnova.

SARAI: South Asia Resource Access on the Internet (Columbia University)

Digital South Asia Library (University of Chicago)

South Asianist Information

• created by retired University of Florida scholar, Gene R. Thursby

Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library (Australian National University)

• no longer maintained as of January 2011
• includes area resources for Sri Lanka, Tibet, Nepal, India, and Pakistan

Tibetan and Himalayan Library

For languages with non-roman scripts (such as Devanagari, Arabic, and others), most library materials use transliteration. Library transliteration follows "Library of Congress Romanization Tables" for each language. To search the library materials for words in these languages, use LC tables to transliterate the original non-roman script for each language, such as Bengali ; Gujarati ; Hindi ; Marathi ; Panjabi (Punjabi) ; Sinhalese ; Sanskrit and Prakrit ; Tamil ; Tibetan ; Urdu.

The South Asian studies LibGuide was created by Judith Logan and Lana Soglasnova