Subject Profile for India and Bhutan - English Publications

*00 General reference tools, including collective biography (specific reference titles are included under subject)

01 Museums, galleries

02 Library and information science

Humanities

03 Philosophy (non-South Asian), logic, ethics, psychology

04 Occult sciences, including astrology

05 Comparative philosophy and religion

* 06 Brahmanism, Hinduism, including philosophy (sacred books, history, general works, special topics, deities)

07 Brahmanism, Hinduism, including philosophy (individual sects and cults, and modern movements)

08 Jainism, including philosophy

09 Sikhism, including philosophy

10 Islam, including philosophy

11 Buddhism, including philosophy

12 Judaism

13 Christianity, Theosophy

14 Zoroastrianism, Bahaism

15 Religious sectarian literature, temple histories, folk religion, devotional literature and songs related to specific sects

16 Music (history, literature, performance, musical scores and notation, including folk music)

* 17 Architecture

* 18 Fine arts: Classical period, including painting, sculpture, and drawing

* 19 Fine arts: Modern period, including painting, sculpture, and drawing

* 20 Decorative arts, including jewelry, textiles, handicrafts, photography, metal working, wood working

* 21 Photo-essays, photo-journalism

* 22 Performing arts, including dance, theater

23 Linguistics, including grammars and dictionaries: about South Asian languages

24 Linguistics, including grammars and dictionaries: about English and non-South Asian languages

25 Translations of creative literature from South Asian languages into English

26 Creative Anglo-Indian literature: comprehensive collection

27 Creative Anglo-Indian literature: highly selective collection

* 28 Literary history and criticism: about South Asian literatures including Anglo-Indian literature

29 Literary history and criticism: about non-South Asian literatures

30 Folk literature, e.g., collections of and individual folk tales, texts of folk songs, qissas, etc.

31 Children's literature

Sciences

32 Engineering

33 Home economics, including cooking, nutrition

34 Science, general

* 35 Soil and water management, irrigation

36 Oceanography and marine biology

37 Biology (includes genetics)

38 Fisheries

* 39 Botany

40 Zoology

41 Microbiology

42 Medicine: clinical medicine

43 Medicine: tropical diseases

44 Medicine: materia medica, systems of medicine indigenous to South Asia and homeopathy

45 Mathematics

46 Computer science

47 Chemistry

48 Physics

Subject Categories with Geographic Area of Context subdivisions

Note: Books in the following subject categories are assigned a Geographic Area of Context (GAC) subdivision. Participants can chose to receive books that focus on any of 36 geographic areas. For a list of the Geographic Areas of Context available for selection in conjunction with the following subject categories please click above.

* 49 Ecology, environmental planning, conservation, social forestry

* 50 Energy and fuel, including issues, policy, exploration and production, nuclear power.

51 Forestry

52 Technical agriculture: Plants, technological advances

53 Technical agriculture: Animal husbandry, veterinary science and medicine, poultry, dairy industry, technological advances

54 Earth sciences (includes geology, climatology, meteorlogy and seismology)

History

55 History of countries and areas outside South Asia

* 56 Civilization and general cultural history (South Asia)

57 Auxiliary sciences of history, including chronology, numismatics, epigraphy, genealogy

58 Archeology

59 History; ancient and medieval (to ca. 1000)

* 60 History: Muslim period (ca. 1000-1765), including political, economic, constitutional, diplomatic, and military history; social conditions; politics and government

* 61 History: European occupation, including political, economic, constitutional, diplomatic, and military history; social conditions; politics and government

* 62 History: modern, 1947-, including political, economic, constitutional, diplomatic, and military history

Social Sciences

* 63 Political science, including politics and government since 1947, political theory, elections, defense/security issues, foreign affairs

64 Human rights and refugee issues

65 Geography, including cultural, political, economic, and physical geography

66 Sports and recreation, including Yoga

67 Travel and tourism

* 68 Anthropology and folklore studies, including. physical anthropology, ethnology, ethnography, caste, community, folklore studies, manners and customs

* 69 Sociology, including social conditions since 1947, family, marriage, methodology

70 Gender studies

Law

71 Law, general

72 Law, constitutional law

73 Law: laws, statutes, etc. (codes: subject, jurisdiction collections, excluding single acts)

74 Law: commentaries, notes on specific acts or groups of acts

75 Law: manuals, rules, regulations, compilations

76 Law: court decisions, rules, regulations - compilations

77 Law: personal and family law of various communities

Social sciences (continued)

78 Statistics, including collections of general and census statistics

* 79 Economics: general; including economic liberalization, planning and policy

* 80 Economics: Management, business, and public administration (incl. marketing and consumer behavior)

81 Economics: public finance, taxation

82 Economics: industry and commerce, private and public sectors

83 Economics: small industry, industrial cooperatives

84 Economics: trade, banking, finance

85 Economics: agri-economics, including land tenure, land reform, agri-cooperatives & labor

86 Economics: labor and labor organizations, employment (excluding agricultural labor)

87 Economics: transport, including infrastructure issues, roads, railroads, air travel

* 88 Social welfare, population control, public health

89 Rural community development

90 Urban and regional planning land use, etc.

+ 91 Demography, migration, immigration, Indians abroad

* 92 Mass media, mass communication, including radio, television, films and film industry, journalism, publishing, satellite communication

93 Education: general; including policy

94 Education: primary, secondary

95 Education: college, university, postgraduate

96 Education: non-formal, adult literacy

+ Subject category without Geographic Area of Context subdivision