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In 2000-2001, Emory joined the Library of Congress Cooperative Acquisitions Program for South Asia (the old PL480 program). The LC office in Delhi selects books recently published in India for their scholarly quality and ships to members based on the collection profile they submit. The profiles indicate which subject areas members want covered and in some cases to which of three levels (selective, representative, or comprehensive). Publishers include Indian branches of western publishers like Oxford and Sage as well as Indian academic, governmental, non-profit, and commercial publishers or republishers like Banaras Hindu University, Motilal-Banarsidass, Centre for Science and Environment, etc. Discounts compare favorably with other vendors. Aside from publications in English, they offer publications in Hindi, Sanskrit, and Tibetan. You are invited to make suggestions for the next revision of the profile (updated in August of each year). The following table represents our current profile based on their subject categories and codes which are found on their website. It is currently not possible to see a complete list of all items collected by the LC in New Delhi. The Accessions list, South Asia recorded all acquisitions 1981-1998 and the South Asian Bibliographer which listed all the acquisitions after 1998 was discontinued by Sage Publishers in 2002.

Subject Subject Code Area Code Language
Brahmanism, Hinduism, including philosophy (sacred books, history, general works, special topics, deities) *6 0 English
Brahmanism, Hinduism, including philosophy (individual sects and cults, and modern movements) 7 0 English
Jainism, including philosophy 8 0 English
Sikhism, including philosophy 9 0 English
Islam, including philosophy 10 0 English
Buddhism, including philosophy 11 0 English
Judaism 12 0 English
Christianity, Theosophy 13 0 English
Religious sectarian literature, temple histories, folk religion, devotional literature and songs related to specific sects 15 0 English
Architecture *17 0 English
Fine arts: Classical period, including painting, sculpture, and drawing *18 0 English
Fine arts: Modern period, including painting, sculpture, and drawing *19 0 English
Performing arts, including dance, theater *22 0 English
Linguistics, including grammars and dictionaries: about South Asian languages 23 0 English
Translations of creative literature from South Asian languages into English 25 0 English
Creative Anglo-Indian literature: highly selective collection 27 0 English
Literary history and criticism: about South Asian literatures including Anglo-Indian literature *28 0 English
Folk literature, e.g., collections of and individual folk tales, texts of folk songs, qissas, etc. 30 0 English
Medicine: materia medica, systems of medicine indigenous to South Asia and homeopathy 44 0 English
Civilization and general cultural history (South Asia) *56 13 English
Archeology 58 13 English
History: Ancient and medieval (to ca. 1000) 59 13 English
History: Muslim period (ca. 1000-1765), including political, economic, constitutional, diplomatic, and military history; social conditions; politics and government *60 13 English
History: European occupation, including political, economic, constitutional, diplomatic, and military history; social conditions; politics and government *61 13 English
History: Modern, 1947-, including political, economic, constitutional, diplomatic, and military history *62 13 English
Political science, including politics and government since 1947, political theory, elections, defense/security issues, foreign affairs *63 13 English
Human rights and refugee issues 64 13 English
Anthropology and folklore studies, including. physical anthropology, ethnology, ethnography, caste, community, folklore studies, manners and customs *68 13 English
Sociology, including social conditions since 1947, family, marriage, methodology *69 13 English
Gender studies 70 13 English
Law: personal and family law of various communities 77 13 English
Economics: general; including economic liberalization, planning and policy *79 13 English
Demography, migration, immigration, Indians abroad 91 13 English
Mass media, mass communication, including radio, television, films and film industry, journalism, publishing, satellite communication *92 13 English
Selective literature 11 0 Hindi
Selective South Asia Religions 04 0 Sanskrit
Selective literary 11 0 Sanskrit
Eastern medicine 20 0 Sanskrit
Law 24 0 Sanskrit
* = Of three levels offered (comprehensive, representative, selective), we have selective. 
 


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