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The Evolution of State and Politics in Colonial India © Professor
Peter Robb, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Aspects
of Social Change in South Asia, c.1860 to the present © Faculty of Modern
History, Oxford University
South Asia Websites: Contains
numerous websites, primary sources and related articles on South Asia
South Asian Resource Access
on the Internet: A list of South Asia scholar directories, libraries, country information,
governments, and NGOs
Digital South Asia Library: Information about
contemporary and historical South Asia including full-text documents, statistical data,
electronic images, cartographic representations, and language instruction.
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.
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: Contains over
56,000 biographies of people who shaped the history of Britain and its empire (including India)
from earliest times to the 2003. (access from college server only.)
Project South Asia: A digital library
of resources on South Asia for colleges and universities
India WWW Virtual Library: Thousands of weblinks
to sites relating to all aspects of contemporary South Asia
Lahore: City of Gardens: A photo gallery of the
major historical and architectural sites of Lahore, capital of the Pakistani Province of
Punjab.
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
Harappa: Educational website with hundreds of articles,
photos, lithographs, and postcards from British India
Manas: South Asian culture and
history
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).
Historical maps of India: Contains
antique maps of British India; links to Internet sites related to British India
Postcolonial Web
(Indian Architecture): High resolution photographs of British buildings and monuments in India.
Background information on the British
in India: Contains genealogical information on the British in India - part of the Family
History in India Website
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
Documents and news articles relating to Jammu
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