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South Asian History

Research guide for sources in South Asian history

Library Catalogue: Sofia

 

Search the Sofia Discovery tool for McGill's collection of resources: books, journals & articles, multimedia, and other resources, in both print or electronic format.

Tips for Searching the Catalogue

The monograph (a specialist book) is the primary means of scholarly communication in history as a discipline. Search the Sofia Discovery tool for McGill's collection of resources including books and eBooks.

You can search using words like - India, Hinduism, hist*, etc.

Search tips for the library catalogue:

Truncation symbol: * e.g., hist* will retrieve catalogue records containing the words history, historical, historically, histoire, etc.
Phrase searching: "___" e.g., "South Asia" will retrieve catalogue records containing the phrase South Asia
Boolean operators: (...), AND, OR, NOT
default: AND
e.g., Bangladesh AND (sixties OR revolution) will retrieve catalogue records containing the word Bangladesh AND either sixties OR revolution
Subject headings: su:(___) e.g., su: Nationalism - Bangladesh - History - 20th Century will retrieve catalogue records assigned this subject heading

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