FYS 101-06: Indian Cinema

Fall 2008

Anita Mannur

Starting Points

Encyclopedia of India
Entries on all aspects of Indian history and culture. Entries include bibliographies for further reading.

Encyclopedia of Modern Ethnic Conflict / DEN Ref GN 496.E56 2003
See pages 93-100

The Territories and States of India / DEN Ref DS 445.T47 2002
Cultural and historical information broken down by States and Territories

Finding Books

Use the OhioLINK Catalog in one of the following ways. Check the  record to see where materials are available:

• SUBJECT Search
  --A person's name (Mehta, Deepa)
  --A concept or term (India History Partition)
  

• KEYWORD Search
  Use this type of search to combine several terms into one search,
  For Example: diaspora and (asia* or india*) and (britain or england or "united kingdom" or uk)

  KEYWORD Searching Options:
  ... AND (fewer results)
  ... OR (expanded results)
  ... NOT (eliminates words)
  ... * truncation symbol
  ... "quotation marks" to search a phrase
  ... (parentheses) to make one portion of search string operate together
  ... Use the "Modify Search" button to weed out videos and retrieve only books (or vice versa).

Finding Articles

Databases help you find articles that have been published in magazines, journals, and newspapers. For this project, try the following:

Lexis Nexis
Full text articles from newspapers around the world.

Academic Search Complete
General purpose database covering periodicals from many disciplines.