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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.
Digital Dictionaries of South Asia: Searchable
digital dictionaries for each of the twenty-six modern literary languages of South Asia.
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.
Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi: Scanned pdf files from the 100 volumes/50,000+
pages of Gandhi's writings. The original collection was published between 1958 and 1994
by the Publications Division, Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, Government of India.
The British Library: A catalogue of
thousands of documents and scanned images of South Asia from the library's vast collections
and the archives of the India Office.
Digital Bodleian: Over a million images of
rare books, manuscripts, and other treasures from the Bodleian Libraries and Oxford college
libraries.
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.
Modern History Sourcebook:
Imperialism: Imperialism: analyses, motives & attitudes, celebrations & objections; India
under British rule.
Modern History Sourcebook:
Decolonization: Retreat from Empire, the Non-Aligned Movement.
South Asian Literary Recordings: Managed
by the US Library of Congress office in New Delhi; contains literary recordings by prominent
authors in multiple languages.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Road
to Partition, 1939-1947: Government documents relating to the partition of India and
Pakistian from the National Archives of Britain.
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.
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.
IRFCA: Information about the Indian Railway: history,
photographs, articles, technical data, etc.
Planet Bollywood: Indian cinema and film
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