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Watzek Library's Subject Research Guide for History
and Digital Primary Sources
contain hundreds of online research resources searchable by title and subject.
Digital South Asia Library: Information about
contemporary and historical South Asia including full-text documents, statistical data,
electronic images, cartographic representations, and language instruction.
Murty Classical Library of India: This series from
Harvard University Press includes classic Indic and Indo-Islamic literary works translated into
English alongside the original text in such languages as Bangla, Hindi, Kannada, Marathi, Pali,
Panjabi, Persian, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu, and Urdu. Printed copies of most of these
works are held in Watzek Library.
Digital Dictionaries of South Asia:
Searchable digital dictionaries for each of the twenty-six modern literary languages of
South Asia.
The Huntington Archive of Buddhist and Asian Art:
This image archive at Ohio State University contains forty years of field photography by John
and Susan Huntington. It is devoted to providing pan-Asian documentation and resources for
scholarly research about Buddhism and Asian civilization.
National Archives of India: The
repository of the non-current records of the Government of India holding them in trust
for the use of administrators and scholars. Originally the Imperial Record Department
founded in 1891 and transferred to New Delhi in 1926.
Virtual Museum of Images and Sound (VMIS): Managed by the American
Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS); a digital resource for using material from the AIIS
Center for Art and Archaeology and the
Archives and Research Centre for
Ethnomusicology.
South Indian Paintings. Murals and other paintings
from South India, many endangered, that focus on religion, the epics, rulers, and monuments
(mostly in Goa, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, and Tamil Nadu.
Old Maps of India: Contains antique maps
of the Indian subcontinent, Central Asia, the Indian Ocean area, and regions and localities.
Historical maps of India: Contains antique maps of towns and cities in British India from
1893 to 1924.
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection: This
open-access database of more than 150,000 high resolution images focuses on rare 16th through
21st century maps, charts, atlases, globes, school geographies, books of exploration, and a
variety of cartographic materials and manuscripts from across the world.
The British Library: A catalogue of
thousands of documents and scanned images of South Asia from the library's vast collection
and the archives of the India Office.
Early English Books Online (EEBO): Contains digital
facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in the British Isles and works in English
printed elsewhere from 1473-1700. Earliest English-language works on India.
Eighteenth-century Collections Online (ECCO): Over 180,000 titles (200,000 volumes)
including books, pamphlets, essays, broadsides.
The Minassian Collection: This site
contains hundreds of images of Mughal, Persian, and Indian miniature paintings from the
John Hay Library at Brown University.
Eastern
Encounters: Four centuries of paintings, photographs and manuscripts from the Indian
Subcontinent in Britain's Royal Collections Trust.
Sarmaya: Online Museum of South Asian history, cartography,
photography, culture and art.
Mughal and Early Modern Metalware: An archived catalog from the outstanding collection
at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. For more examples of Mughal art and artifacts search
the collections in the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, the
Arthur M. Sackler Gallery of the Smithsonian
Instutition, the
Victoria & Albert Museum, the
Walters Art Museum, and the National Gallery of Victoria.
Silk Road Project: A public education
project that explore cultural interaction across Eurasia from the beginning of the Common
Era (CE) through the Seventeenth Century
Indian History Sourcebook: The
Mughal Empire, Western expansion, Indian nationalism, India since Independence, Pakistan
since Independence.
Islamic History Sourcebook: Sufism,
Islamic nationalism, Islam & liberal democracy, Islam & 19th-century European imperialism; maps.
South Asian Literary Recordings:
Managed by the US Library of Congress office in New Delhi; contains literary recordings by
prominent authors in multiple languages.
Harappa (#1): Hundreds of articles, photos, lithographs and
postcards of the Indus Valley Civilization.
Manas: A scholarly yet readable resource from UCLA for
Indian history, politics, culture, and religion.
SAADA: South Asian American Digital Archive: resources
that reflect the vast range of experiences of the South Asian diaspora in the United States
and in communities across the globe.
Gerritsen Collection: The largest online
resource for documents and primary sources relating to women's history (access only from
LC server).
British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia
(BACSA): This UK organization raise funds to maintain British gravesites in South
Asia and is a valuable resource for family research and historians of British India.
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