Indian Council of World Affairs

SERVICES AVAILABLE FOR SCHOLARS & STUDENTS

Library Services

• Web OPAC (Accessible through ICWA Website)
• Bibliographic Service - Bibliographies on specific topics are provided to the researchers on request.
• Reference Service - Information is collected from the library against specific requests from researchers.
• Photocopying at nominal charges.
• Post-Graduate/ Undergraduate students of any discipline are allowed to bring two personal books inside the library.

Online Resources (Accessible within ICWA Library)

• DELNET Online
• JSTOR
• Project MUSE

List of Subscribed Journals

1. African Affairs.
   
2. African Security Review.
   
3. British Journal of Politics and International Relations.
   
4. China Report.
   
5. Chinese Journal of International Politics.
   
6. Contemporary Southeast Asia.
   
7. Daedalus.
   
8. Defence Studies.
   
9. Economic and Political Weekly.
   
10. Economist, The.
    
11. Energy Manager.
    
12. European Security.
    
13. Far Eastern Affairs.
    
14. Foreign Affairs.
    
15. Foreign Policy.
    
16. Frontline.
    
17. Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies.
    
18. India Strategic.
    
19. India Today.
    
20. International Affairs. (Moscow)
    
21. International Affairs. (London)
    
22. International Journal of Middle East Studies.
    
23. International Journal on World Peace.
    
24. International Journal: Canada’s Journal of Global Policy Analysis.
    
25. International Organization.
    
26. International Political Science Review.
    
27. International Relations.
    
28. Issues and Studies.
    
29. Journal of Military History.
    
30. Journal of Modern African Studies, The.
    
31. Journal of Palestine Studies.
    
32. Mainstream.
    
33. Middle East Journal.
    
34. Orbis.
    
35. Oxford Energy Forum.
    
36. Palestine-Israel Journal.
    
37. Political Quarterly, The.
    
38. Political Science Quarterly.
    
39. Review of International Studies.
    
40. Russia in Global Affairs.
    
41. Seminar.
    
42. South African Journal of International Affairs.
    
43. South Asia Research.
    
44. South Asian Studies.
    
45. SRELS Journal of Information Management.
    
46. Time.
    
47. Washington Quarterly, The.
    
48. World Affairs.
    
49. World Focus.
    
50. World Politics.
    
51. World Today.
    
52. Yojana. 

Special Collection:

Heritage of Diplomacy- It is a bouquet of books and memoirs written by Ambassadors and senior diplomats of India. This special collection is available in the ICWA Library. Anecdotes, short stories, autobiographical accounts and India's relations with other countries looked through the prism of our Ambassadors are some of the uniqueness of this collection.

Treasure Trove of Antique titles- The library possesses thousands of invaluable books. Few of them are worth mentioning;

1. The History of Japan, giving an account of the ancient and prefent states and government of that Empire; Its Temples, Places, Caftles and other Buildings; of Its Metals, Minerals, Trees, Plants, Animals, Birds and Fishes etc. [By Scheuchzer, F.G.. London: S.N., 1727.]
2. The General History of China, containing a geographical, hiftorical, chronological, political and phyfical defcription of the Empire of China, Chinefe-Tartary, Corea and Thibet. [By Du Halde, P. London: S.N.1736, ]
3. Historical Account of Discoveries and Travels in Asia: from the earliest ages to the present time. [By Murray, Hugh. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Browm, 1820]
4. History of the Political and Military Transactions in India, during the Administration of the Marquess of Hastings (1813-23). [By Princep, Henry T. London: Kingsbury, Parbury, & Allen. 1825]
5. Journey to the North of India: overland from England through Russia, Persia and Afghanistan. [By CoNolly, Arthur. London: Richard Bentley, 1838.]
6. Sepoy War in India. [By Kaye, J.W. London: S.N.1858, ]
7. India in 1858: a summary of the existing administration, political, fiscal and judicial of British India. [By Mills, Arthur. London: John Murray, 1858]
8. Manual International for the use of Navies, Colonies and Cosulates. [By Ferguson, Jan Helenus. London:S.N.1884,]
9. The Modern World. [By Dutt, Shoshee Chunder. Gilbert and Rivington, London, 1884]
10. The Imperial Gazetteer of India. [By Hunter, W.W. London: Trubner, 1886.]
11. A Historical Geography of the British Colonies. [By Lucas, C.P. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1890]
12. The History of China. [By Boulger, Demetrius Charles. London: W. Thacker, 1898.]
13. A History of the Law of Nations. [By Walker, Thomas Alfred. Cambridge University Press, 1899.]
14. A Diplomatist's Wife in Japan: letters from home to home. [By Fraser, Hugh. London: Hutchinson & Co., 1899.]