India: Reference
Resources for Indian studies
Dictionaries and Encyclopedias--India
- Digital Bhagavadgomaṇḍala = BhagwadgomandalOnline searchable Gujarati dictionary/encyclopedia. Digitized version of Bhagavadgomaṇḍala, authored by Bhagavat Siṃhajī
- Digital Dictionaries of South AsiaOngoing project from the Digital South Asia Library. Languages include Assamese, Baluchi, Bengali, Divehi, Dogri, English (Hobson-Jobson), Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Khowar, Konkani, Lushai, Maithili, Malayalam, Manipuri, Marathi, Nepali, Newari, Pali, Panjabi, Pashto, Oriya, Pali, Panjabi, Pashto, Persian, Prakrit, Rajasthani, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Sinhala, Tamil, Telugu, Torwali, and Urdu. Also includes two comparative (Indo-European and Dravidian) dictionaries.
- Encyclopedia of Indian Philosophies BibliographyBibliography of the philosophical literature of India during its classical phase, and the secondary material on this literature that is available (for the most part) in English. Online version of Karl Potter's book compilation.
Reference Guides--India
- Digital Art and Manuscript Images from pre-modern South AsiaPart of Indology: resources for indological scholarship
- Digital South Asia Library . This link opens in a new windowThe Digital South Asia Library, a project of the Center for Research Libraries, is a global collaborative effort to make important and rare South Asian resources available to the international community. Includes: reference resources, bibliographies and union lists, indexes, books and journals, statistics, image collections, maps and catalogs of maps.
- French books on India: an open access multilingual discovery tool with book data from 1531 to 2016 and ebooks before 1939The site covers books from 1531 to 2015, with full-text copies of hundreds of titles that appeared before 1939 and short critical summaries of the most important items written by international experts. The books published after 1954 included here, all relate back to the period before that year, including to the 267-year period between 1668 and 1954 when the French nation had a trading presence in India. Presenting them in chronological order, this site shows books in history and fascinating recurring tropes in French-language representations of India.
- National Digital Library of IndiaNDL India is designed to hold content of any language and provides interface support for leading Indian languages (currently Hindi and Bengali). It is being arranged to provide support for all academic levels. It is being developed at IIT Kharagpur.
- New catalogus catalogorum : an alphabetical register of Sanskrit and allied works and authorsUniversity of Madras. Sanskrit Department
Based on Theodor Aufrecht's Catalogus catalogorum.
South Asian Studies Reading Room (601 Butler) Z6605.S3 U54 1949 - Perso-Indica : an analytical survey of Persian works on Indian learned traditionsEncompassing the treatises and translations produced in India between the 13th and the 19th century.
- Public Library of IndiaCollection containing resources relevant to India. The former Digital Library of India site was the source of many of these 312,986 text items.
Multi-Region Digital Repositories
- Archivportal Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek
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Digital archival material and information on digital facilities from all over Germany - Library of Congress (online search)Online materials on South Asia topics available at the Library of Congress. This link is to a keyword search for "South Asia." To locate many other materials, try other Asia region-specific keyword searches for online materials.
Madras Literary Society Library
Encyclopedias--Multiregional
- Europa World PlusEuropa World Plus, the online version of the Europa World Year Book and the nine-volume Europa Regional Surveys of the World series.
Bibliographic Reference Guides--Multiregional
- Bibliography of Asian studies . This link opens in a new window
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This online version of the Bibliography of Asian studies (BAS) contains more than 850,000 records on all subjects (especially humanities and social sciences) pertaining to East, Southeast, and South Asia published 1971 to the present. It contains the full data of all printed editions of the BAS issued from 1971 up to the 1991 ed. (published 1997), as well as thousands of entries published since. For 1941 through 1970, see print subject bibliography and author bibliography in the South Asian Studies Reading Room; additional print issues are Offsite.
- Genamics JournalSeek"The largest completely categorized database of freely available journal information available on the internet. The database presently contains 104870 titles [as of 11/1/2016]. Journal information includes the description (aims and scope), journal abbreviation, journal homepage link, subject category and ISSN. Searching this information allows the rapid identification of potential journals to publish your research in, as well as allow you to find new journals of interest to your field."
- Guide to the Indexing of South Asian Studies PeriodicalsIdentifies and lists indexed South Asian periodical titles. Hosted by University of Wisconsin Digital Collections
- Indica et Buddhica Publishers : Materials for Indology and Buddhology.
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Includes Scholiast (a bibliographic database for Asian and Buddhist Studies), Tabulae (journals with Buddhist Studies material), Lexica (definitions from two Sanskrit-Tibetan word lists and a Sanskrit-English dictionary), and Repositorium (materials for Indology and Buddhology).
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Provides page images of back issues of the core scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences from the earliest issues to within a few years of current publication. Users may browse by journal title or discipline, or may search the full-text or citations/abstracts. New issues of existing titles and new titles are added on an ongoing basis.
- Online Museum Resources on Asian Art (OMuRAA)An initiative of the Asia for Educators Program at Columbia University. Identifies online visual resources and indexes them in ways that are familiar to teachers and students in world history, world literature, and general art courses.
- PANDiT : Prosopographical Database for Indic TextsA digital humanities project with a unique and ambitious task: to create a database for the vast world of South Asian letters. PANDiT seeks to store, curate, and share reliable data on works, people, places, institutions, and manuscripts from premodern South Asia, in addition to relevant secondary sources, and to do so across period, language, discipline and subject matter. It is designed as an interactive web-based repository that scholars of every South Asian specialty and interest can contribute to and as a basic tool on which they will routinely come to rely.
- PARADISEC CatalogPacific And Regional Archive for DIgital Sources in Endangered Cultures curates digital material about small or endangered languages.
- Royal Asiatic Society's Digital LibraryRoyal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. The site features archives, manuscripts, artwork, photographs, and more, from a variety of Asian cultures, as well as materials showing some of the ways Europeans have responded to Asia over the centuries.
- SALToC: South Asian Language Journals Cooperative Table of Contents ProjectA cooperative project among participating libraries to provide browsable tables of contents of journals in South Asian languages. Hosted and archived with permanent URLs by NYU Libraries.
- Siddham: the South Asia inscriptions databaseA resource for the study of inscriptions from South and Central Asia, which focuses on the period of the Guptas (circa 320 to 550). The project is based at the British Museum, British Library and the School of Oriental and African Studies.
- South and Southeast Asian literature : classic and postcolonial writers in English, 1825 to present. This link opens in a new window
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The collection comprises literature written originally in English by writers who either were born in or identify themselves culturally with India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, the Maldives, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, and Fiji. Because the South and Southeast Asian Diasporas are so widely cast, the collection also includes the work of writers living or working in Africa, the United Kingdom, North America, and the Caribbean. The collection will focus upon literature written during the late-colonial and postcolonial eras, but it will also include earlier work that is essential to scholarship in this area.
- Vaz̤āḥatī Urdū kitābiyāt (ʻimrānī ʻulūm) = Annotated Urdu bibliography (social sciences)tartīb va tahz̲īb, Anvar Muʻaẓẓam, Ashhar Farḥān.
Offsite Z7161.A22 2008g (v. 1-4) - South Asian Manuscripts at the Library of CongressProvides information about rare manuscripts in various South Asian languages (e.g., Sanskrit, Urdu, Tamil, Sinhalese) available for research in the Asian Division of the Library of Congress.
- The Treasury of lives : a biographical encyclopedia of Himalayan religion
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A biographical encyclopedia of all known past masters of Himalayan religion, both Buddhist and Bo
- Worldwide political science abstracts This link opens in a new window
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The database provides access to citations and abstracts of journal articles appearing political science journals. Years of Coverage: 1975 to the present.
- The WWW Virtual Library Asian StudiesSubcategories include Asian and Pacific Studies electronic journals, Burma (Myanmar), Papua (Indonesia), Philippines, Tibetan Studies