Reference Works
Handbooks
Handbook of Autobiography / Autofiction (2019)
Example entries: gender, gender studies, genre, history, india, social history
The Cambridge companion to Gandhi (2011)
The Cambridge companion to modern Indian culture (2012)
See especially: "Dalit life histories" by Debjani Ganguly
Routledge handbook of contemporary India (2016)
Routledge handbook of gender in South Asia (2014)
Encyclopedias
Brill's encyclopedia of Hinduism (2012)
India today an encyclopedia of life in the Republic (2011)
The Oxford encyclopedia of Islam and women (2013)
Bibliographies & Other Reference Works
Dalit studies : a bibliographical handbook - print only
Example entries: Children and Childhood in Hinduism, Dalit Studies, Geographic Methods: Life Writing Analysis
*Tip: Reference works that are part of a publisher's or aggregator's collections, e.g., from Gale or Oxford, can be searched together with other works in their collections.
Further Reading
Secondary Scholarship
Dalit Studies (2017)
Domesticity in colonial India : what women learned when men gave them advice (2004)
Secluded scholars : women's education and Muslim social reform in colonial India (1998) - print only
South Asian Feminisms (2012)
Telling lives in India : biography, autobiography, and life history (2004) - print only
Women and social reform in modern India : a reader (2008) - print only
Women in modern India (1996)
Writing caste, writing gender : reading Dalit women's testimonies (2006) - print only