South Asia

Links to Asian Studies Resources

Brown University: South Asia Digital Collection. This site is a gateway to Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection, Digital South Asia Library of the University of Chicago, Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, Indian Census, Indian Stat, The Minassian Collection of Persian, Mughal, and Indian Miniature Paintings, The Asian Collection of the RISD Museum, Works of Mahatman Gandhi and The David E. Pingree Collection.

Digital South Asia Library. This digital library provides scholarly reference books and a link to full text dictionaries at Digital Dictionaries of South Asia (DDSA), photographs are arranged in databases organized by the original collections, catalogs of maps and maps themselves, ranging from historical to topographic, electronic catalogs and finding aids for dispersed resources and collections and statistical information from the colonial period through the present, available in a variety of formats.

SARAI (South Asia Resources Access to the Internet. South Asia Resource Access on the Internet (SARAI), also known as the South Asian Studies Virtual Library, was developed and hosted at Columbia University Libraries between 1994 and 2017.

South Asia Archive. The South Asia Archive provides an extensive resource for students and scholars across the humanities and social sciences.Focusing on South Asia, the Archive contains both serial and non-serial materials, including reports, rare books, and journal runs from noteworthy, rare publications. The documents in the Archive are truly interdisciplinary, reflecting the varied range of knowledge production in colonial and early post-colonial India

South Asian Manuscripts at the Library of Congress. South Asian Rare Book Collection in the Library of Congress numbers approximately 1,000 manuscripts in various languages (e.g., Sanskrit, Urdu, Tamil, Sinhalese). The majority of these manuscripts are in Sanskrit. Reference librarians in the Asian Division will update this guide periodically with further details of manuscripts in various languages.

South Asia Open Archives (SAOA). South Asia Open Archives is a free open-access resource for research and teaching - a rich and growing curated collection of key historical and contemporary sources in arts, humanities and social sciences, from and about South Asia, in English and other languages of the region. SAOA's collection currently contains hundreds of thousands of pages of books, journals, newspapers, census data, magazines, and documents, with particular focus on social & economic history, literature, women & gender, and caste & social structure.