HIST 302: Ghandi

Use the Library Catalog, The CAT to search for materials (books, videos, maps, etc.).

• The CAT  (Penn State's catalog)
• WorldCat (OCLC) (Libraries worldwide)
  

A primary source gives the words of the witnesses or the first recorders of an event. Primary sources include manuscripts, archives, letters, diaries, and speeches. ... Secondary sources are 'descriptions of the event derived from and based on primary sources'. The line between primary and secondary sources is often indistinct, for example, a single document may be a primary source on some matter and a secondary source on others." (Helen J. Poulton, The historian's handbook (Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1972), p.175-76).

• Collected Works of Gandhi, Call # DS481.G3A1, Pattee Stacks Level 1
• Documents of the History of the Communist Party of India,  Call # JQ298.C6A744, Social Sciences Library, 2^nd Floor Paterno
• Indian Nationalist Movement, 1885-1947: Selected Documents, Call # JQ215 1979.I52, Social Sciences Library, 2nd Floor Paterno
• Selected Works of Govind Ballabh Pant, Call # DS480.45.P367, Pattee Stacks Level 1
• Tuskegee Institute News Clippings File, Call # Film A401, News and Microforms Library, Ground Floor West Pattee. Guide: Call # Z1361.N39K58

To locate other primary sources in The CAT try searching for the following:

• Sources
• Documents or Documentary
• Letters or Correspondence
• Works (for collections of individuals' writings)
• Speeches
• Memoirs
• Autobiography
• Eyewitness or Narratives (for personal accounts of historical events)

• Chronology of World History, Call # D11.M39, Arts & Humanities Reference, Pattee Level 2
• Encyclopaedia of India, Call # DS405.E53 1992, Arts & Humanities Reference, Pattee Level 2
• Historical Dictionary of India, Call #DS405.M27 1996, Arts & Humanities Reference, Pattee Level 2
• International Historical Statistics, 1750-1993: Africa, Asia, Oceania, Call # HA4675.M551, Social Sciences Reference, 2^nd Floor Paterno
• Who was Who in British India, Call # CT1503.R53, Arts & Humanities Reference, Pattee Level 2
• Index to Biographical Sources: Biography and Genealogy Master Index

British Documents

• British Parliamentary Papers Relating to India, 1662-1947,  Call # JQ231.B75 1992
• Great Britain. House of Commons. Sessional Papers, Microprint.G798s, Social Sciences Library, 2^nd Floor Paterno
• House of Commons Journals (Debates in the British Parliament) 1547-1900, 1950-1996, Call # Microprint G798j, Social Sciences Library, 2^nd Floor Paterno

United States Documents

• Checklist of U.S. Public Documents (1789-1976),  Call # Z1223.Z7C47, Social Sciences Reference Coll., 2nd Floor Paterno
• Congressional Hearings Index, Call # KF40.C58, Social Sciences Legal Alcove, 2^nd Floor Paterno
• Congressional Record (debates in the U.S. Congress), Call # J11.G5 Location: 2nd Floor Paterno
• United States Serial Set (Congressional documents), Social Sciences Library, 2^nd Floor, Paterno.
• Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, Call # J80.A283, Social Sciences Library, 2^nd Floor Paterno

• International Index to Periodicals, 1911-1964, Call # A19.B7, Arts and Humanities Reference, Pattee Level 2
• JSTOR (full text from selected journals in history, Asian Studies, Economics, etc.)
• New York Times Index, 1851-present, Call # AI21.N44, News and Microforms Library, Ground Floor Pattee
• Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature, 1900-present, Call # AI3.R4, Arts and Humanities Index Tables, Pattee Level 2
• Times of London, (Palmer Index), 1790-1905 online, 1905-present in print, For articles published after 1905 use the paper index to the London Times, Call # AI 21.T46

• Bibliography of Asian Studies (Publications on all aspects of Asia)
• Comprehensive Annotated Bibliography on Mahatma Gandhi, Call # DS481.G3P36 1995, Reserves 1 ^st Floor Paterno
• Historical Abstracts (Articles published since 1954 in history journals)
• International Bibliography of Historical Sciences, Call # Z6205.I61, Arts and Humanities Reference, Pattee Level 2
• JSTOR  (full text from selected journals in history, Asian Studies, Economics, etc.)
• Project Muse (Recent years of articles from selected journals in all fields)
• South Asian History, 1750-1950: A Guide to Periodicals, Dissertations, and Newspapers, Call # Z3185.C3, Arts and Humanities Reference, Pattee Level 2

• Internet Indian History Sourcebook. Collection of online documents
• Mahatma Gandhi Foundation  (website under construction)
• M.K Gandhi 
  

Eric Novotny
History Librarian
Arts & Humanities Library
W321 Pattee Library
Penn State University
814-865-1014
ecn1@psu.edu

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