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Charles Ball, "View of Lucknow" (engraving from History of the Indian Mutiny, London 1859)

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SOUTH ASIA ONLINE RESOURCES





SOUTH ASIAN HISTORY AND CULTURE ONLINE

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.

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.

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 music.




SOUTH ASIAN OFFICIAL GOVERNMENT SITES

Republic of India

Islamic Republic of Pakistan

People's Republic of Bangladesh

Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka

Government of Tibet in Exile

Government of Nepal

Kingdom of Bhutan

Republic of the Maldives




SOUTH ASIA RELATED ORGANIZATIONS

Indian Consulates in the US

UN Peacekeeking in South Asia

US State Department South & Central Asian Affairs

US Organizations related to South Asia

World Bank South Asia Page

Archaeological Survey of India

Asiatic Society, Calcutta

Association of Asian Studies

American Institute of Indian Studies

American Institute of Pakistan Studies

American Institute of Sri Lankan Studies

American Institute of Bangladesh Studies




SOUTH ASIAN POLITICAL ORGANIZATIONS

Congress Party (India)

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) (India)

Communist Party of India (CPI)

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) (India)

Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) (India)

Sri Lanka Freedom Party

United National Party (Sri Lanka)

Pakistan Muslim League

Pakistan People's Party

Tehreek-e-Insaf (Pakistan)

Bangladesh Nationalist Party

Awami League (Bangladesh)

Jamaat-e-Islami (Bangladesh)





SOUTH ASIAN MEDIA

Times of India

India Today

The Hindu

Indian Express

Pioneer (Delhi)

Hindustan Times

Financial Express

Dawn (Pakistan)

Telegraph (Calcutta)

Greater Kashmir News

Sri Lanka News

Doordarshan

Radio Pakistan

BBC South Asia

CNN South Asia


OTHER SOUTH ASIAN NEWSPAPERS ONLINE

India

Pakistan

Nepal

Sri Lanka

Bangladesh

Maldives

Bhutan

Afghanistan




SOUTH ASIAN UNIVERSITIES AND ACADEMIC CENTERS

University of Delhi

Jawaharlal Nehru University (Delhi)

Jamia Millia Islamia (Delhi)

University of Calcutta

University of Mumbai

Aligarh Muslim University

Banaras Hindu University

Quaid-i-Azam University (Islamabad)

University of Dhaka

Indian Institute of Advanced Study (Simla)

Centre for Studies in Social Sciences (Calcutta)

SOAS South Asia Institute (London)

Centre of South Asian Studies, Cambridge University

South Asia Center, University of Washington (Seattle)




SOUTH ASIA IN PORTLAND

Kalakendra (Performing Arts)

Rasika (Arts & Culture)

India Cultural Association of Portland





UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE SITES IN SOUTH ASIA

India

Pakistan

Nepal

Sri Lanka

Bangladesh

Afghanistan




CIA FACTBOOKS FOR SOUTH ASIAN COUNTRIES

India

Pakistan

Nepal

Sri Lanka

Bangladesh

Maldives

Bhutan

Afghanistan




U.S. EMBASSIES AND CONSULATES IN SOUTH ASIA

India

Pakistan

Bangladesh

Nepal

Sri Lanka & Maldives

Afghanistan




CDC HEALTH INFORMATION FOR TRAVELERS IN SOUTH ASIA

India

Pakistan

Nepal

Sri Lanka

Bangladesh

Maldives

Bhutan

Afghanistan




LONELY PLANET GUIDES FOR SOUTH ASIAN COUNTRIES AND CITIES

India

Pakistan

Nepal

Sri Lanka

Bangladesh

Maldives

Bhutan

Afghanistan

Tibet

Delhi

Goa

Kathmandu

Kolkata (Calcutta)

Mumbai (Bombay)

Chennai (Madras)





Pilgrims at the Kumbh Mela, Allahabad

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