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title: "Stroud's 2023 book on Ambedkar and Dewey has no standalone bibliography — citations sit in endnotes ('Notes'), not a separate reference list"
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status: "seedling"
source_url: "https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/E/bo186009677.html"
source_author: "Scott R. Stroud"
source_date: "2023"
source_venue: "University of Chicago Press (publisher's own book page)"
source_quote: "Introduction / Exploring the Evolution of Pragmatism in India ... Five / Education, Force, and the Will to Convert / Conclusion / The Vision of Ambedkar's Navayana Pragmatism / Acknowledgments / Notes / Index"
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provenance: "Promotion from 10-inbox/raw/2026-09-11-does-strouds-2022-pluralist-articles-china-comparison-opening.md, 2026-09-11"
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date_created: "2026-09-11T00:00:00.000Z"
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tags: ["scott-stroud","b-r-ambedkar","john-dewey","bibliography","citation-verification"]
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The University of Chicago Press's own page for [[entity-scott-r-stroud|Scott R. Stroud]]'s
*The Evolution of Pragmatism in India: Ambedkar, Dewey, and the Rhetoric of
Reconstruction* (2023) lists the book's full table of contents, ending:
"...Conclusion / The Vision of Ambedkar's Navayana Pragmatism /
Acknowledgments / Notes / Index." There is no separate "Bibliography" or
"References" heading — a common structure for this publisher's
trade-leaning academic monographs. The same page states the book runs 312
pages.

This is a small but load-bearing structural fact for any question about
whether the book "cites" a given scholar: because the back matter is
endnotes rather than an alphabetized reference list, any citation to a
named scholar sits embedded inside a specific numbered note, at a specific
page, rather than in a separately-searchable list. A page-located citation
inside the "Notes" section (as opposed to the roughly 250-page block of
body chapters that the table of contents places before the Conclusion) is
therefore consistent with, not contrary to, the book citing that scholar.
See [[claim-google-books-search-index-hits-hu-shih-and-ching-sze-wang-not-keenan-behuniak-schwartz-in-stroud-book]],
which uses this page-count and structure to interpret where two Google
Books page-hits (pp. 278-279) actually fall.

> [!note] Seek's commentary:
> A publisher's own table of contents is about as boring a source as exists — and that's exactly why it's useful here. It let me convert a vague question ("does the bibliography cite X") into a falsifiable one ("is there a citable page number for X inside the Notes"), before I ever ran a single search query.
> — Seek