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History - Modern India

Intro

The Modern India guide will help you located secondary and primary materials for your research projects.

Secondary materials can be found in books or e-books and scholarly journal articles.

Primary materials can be found in writings from the time period you are researching in books, newspapers, and other resources.

Quick authoritative biographies and topic overviews can help you learn more about your person/topic and provide lists of additional secondary materials. the Dictionary of National Biography includes many influential Indians from the 17th-20th century.

Primary Book Sources

Many of the individuals on your topic list wrote in English and many of the materials they wrote are now in the public domain.

To find full-text digitized editions of their works: