Collection Development Policy Statement

South Asian Studies

Selector: John Rawlings

Date 9/16/01 rev. 2006

I. Programmatic Information

This is an English language collection of books published in South Asia (primarily India and Pakistan) and elsewhere, to support study and teaching and some faculty research at Stanford.

II. Coordination & Cooperative Information

There are no formal agreements between Stanford and Berkeley for South Asia. Stanford has relied de facto on Berkeley’s strong collections. South Asia Library Resources (http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/SSEAL/SouthAsia/)

III. Subject & Language Modifiers

Geographical: India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and the Himalayan region.

Chronological: Largely colonial period and independence to the present.

Language: 95%+ of all purchases are English language. Vernacular publications are not currently selected except for Buddhist studies; see the Religious Studies Collection Development Policy.

IV. Description of Material Collected

Types of material collected: Primarily books. Other formats upon request. Government documents highly selectively owing to Berkeley’s strong collection.

Publication date: Current material is almost exclusively acquired.

Conspectus of the Field:

Anthropology      3E

Art (in Art Library)   2F

Buddhist Studies see the Religious Studies statement  4W

Economic Studies (rural development inc. intermediate technologies, migration, demographics, natural resources, agricultural economics, environmental issues only)     3E

Environmental Studies (public policy & social aspects only)  3E

Film, including movie DVDs                                               3F

Geography (human ecology and rural development only)     3E

Government and Politics                                                    3E

Hinduism                                                                         3E

History (include substantial scholarly collections of primary sources; peasant and caste studies, women/gender in Indian history; Himalayan region history & exploration)                                              3E

Islam see Middle East Collection Development Policy             3E

Literature (studies of Anglo-Indian writers, of British literatures’s role in Indian culture, of Indian perspectives on American, British, and on non-European literatures. Creative writing in English by Indian authors.)    3E

Music & Popular Culture (i.e., cultural significance of popular music -- scholarly studies only)   3E

Journalism & Mass Media (scholarly studies on popular culture and of women; television and politics  3E

Linguistics (sociolinguistics, language planning; grammars, dictionaries and linguistic studies of individual living languages) 3E

Philosophy and Religion   3E

Sanskrit                          3W

Sociology and Anthropology (particularly women/caste/minority issues; human rights; ethnologies; folk culture)   3E