Sri Lanka: Maps-Media
Resources related to Sri Lanka
Atlases and Maps of Sri Lanka
- A Historical Atlas of South Asiaby Joseph E. Schwartzberg, 2nd impression, 1992. Digital South Asia Library
- Sri LankaEiu.com country report.
- Sri LankaUnited Nations Geospatial Information Section map
South Asia (multi-region) Map Collections
- Asia MapFrom the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas. Mostly U.S. Central Intelligence Agency produced political and reference maps, including Afghanistan, Asia (general), Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Cambodia, India, Indochina, Kashmir, Laos, Malaysia, Philippines, Sikkim, Singapore, Southest Asia, Southern Asia, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam, and other regions.
- David Rumsey Map CollectionOver 65,000 maps and images online. The collection includes rare 16th through 21st century maps of America, North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Pacific and the World.
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"This database is a unique online archive of the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU)'s quarterly country reports, from their beginning in 1952 up to 1995. The reports combine detailed statistical information with expert commentary and analysis from the EIU's analysts, providing high quality summaries of political, economic and commercial developments in almost 200 countries. Reports are reproduced in full and made available as page images with fully searchable text. In addition, figures and tables within each report are captured as separate objects and the data from each statistical table can be downloaded as a spreadsheet. Countries are indexed consistently, making it easy to find the relevant reports despite changes to the nomenclature and grouping of countries across the period. There is one record per report; a single report may cover two or more countries. The reports were produced by the Economist Intelligence Unit's country analysts drawing on a global network of contributors, with data selected and carefully scrutinized from national and international sources. They follow a consistent format for each country, although that structure has evolved over time." - EIU viewpoint This link opens in a new window
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Provides access to several EIU publications including Country Reports, Country Monitor, Country Commerce, Country Finance, and EIU ViewsWire. Information is presented as analysis, briefings, commentary, or forecasts. - Geodata@Columbia / Columbia University Libraries/Information Services. This link opens in a new windowSearch, discover, preview, and retrieve geospatial data.
- Historical Maps of AsiaPerry-Castañeda Library Map Collection. Includes maps from Afghanistan, Asia, Bombay, Burma, Calcutta, Cebu, Ceylon (Sri Lanka), India, Indo-China, Kashmir, Lahore, Lingayen (Philippines), Malacca [Melaka], Manila, Nederlandisch-Indie, Oriental Empires, Persia and Persian Empire, Philippine Islands, Ports in China, Japan and the Philippines, The Portuguese Colonial Dominions in India and the Malay Archipelago, Rangoon, Srinigar, Tibet, Zamboanga (Philippines), and other regions.
- Making Britain: Discover how South Asians shaped the nation,1870-1950The Open University. Information about South Asians in Britain from 1870 to 1950, the organizations they were involved in, their British connections, and the major events in which they participated.
- Mapping Buddhist Monasteries 200-1200 CE ProjectWork in progress, copyright (c) 2009-present by S. Gordon, T. M. Ciolek, L. H. Piel & G. Gunatilleke. Covers Central Asia, East Asia, South Asia, and Southeast Asia.
- Migration Information Resource--Country ResourcesAsia/Pacific country resource pages include Afghanistan, Australia, Bangladesh, Burma, Cook Islands, East Timor, Fiji, India, Indonesia, Micronesia, Nepal, New Zealand, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, and Vietnam (among others).
- Old Maps OnlineGatewary to historical maps in libraries around the world
- Old Survey of India MapsA collection of historical maps produced by the Survey of India from 1750 to the present day, with scales ranging from 1:1,000,000 to 1:50,000.
- Royal Geographical Society (with Institute of British Geographers)Digitized archives of the Royal Geographical Society from 1478 to 1953. Contains a range of primary sources, searchable manuscripts, correspondence, reports, conference papers, proceedings, maps, charts, atlases, photographs, surveys, data and ephemera produced by the researchers and members of RGS. Highlights include Mount Everest archive.
- South AsiaUnited Nations Geospatial Information Section map
- United Nations Geospatial Information Section (formerly Cartographic Section)Links to general maps, mission maps, and geographic resources and information documentation. Use menus to selection region.
- World Almanac of IslamismAmerican Foreign Policy Council. Resource designed to track the rise or decline of radical Islam on a national, regional and global level
- World Countries -- AsiaSelect a region from the menu or visit a country by clicking on its flag.
Sri Lanka--History
- Asian Economic History Series One: The Opium Trade and the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs, 1945-48Butler microforms, 4 reels. Foreign Office Files relating to the Opium Trade and the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs. The material is truly international with memoranda, papers and correspondence reflecting activity in Burma, Syria, the Lebanon, Cyprus, the Middle East, the Persian Gulf, India and Ceylon, Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia, the Philippines, North Borneo and Sarawak. See online guide.
- Indian and Sri Lankan records from colonial missionaries, 1770-1931. This link opens in a new windowThe documents in this resource come from the archives of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (SPG). Some are true archives, arising from the work of the Society in India; some are manuscripts which cover the period when the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (SPCK), founded in 1698 was working with the Royal Danish (Lutheran) Mission, founded in 1705. They chart the history of Anglican Protestant engagement in the region from shortly after the strategic turning point in the fortunes of the East India Company wrought by Colonel Robert Clive in the 1750s, through to the toppling of Tipu Sultan in 1799, the controversial changes to the EIC's charter in 1813, the Sepoy Rebellion of 1856-1857, and on right through to Partition in 1947. As with the Society's missions elsewhere in the world, the documents also trace the gradual shift that began in the early 19th century from a church dependent on English priests to one increasingly led by indigenous clergy. Accompanied by an online guide to the collection by Isobel Pridmore, formerly the archivist at the USPG, whose archives are now held at Rhodes House Library in Oxford.
- Lachlan and Elizabeth Macquerie Archive (LEMA)An interlocking series of historical websites devoted to examining Lachlan Macquarie's travels, experiences, and achievements in the period 1787-1824. These projects include documentary transcripts, photographs, and research findings associated with Australia, India, Sri Lanka, Middle East, Russia, Denmark and Scotland.
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Sri Lanka Media (Images)
- Art Sri LankaThe Serendib Gallery. Includes online exhibitions of artists. "Latest update" is 2006.
- British Library Ceylon ImagesBritish Library Ceylon images, available on flickr
- Depicting the Sri Lankan vernacular
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This collection of original photographs and drawings is drawn from ethnographic research on architecture and traditional domestic life in Sri Lanka, conducted in various periods between 1965 and 2012, by Bonnie and Robert MacDougall. These original images, as well as other visual records, pertain to lifeways and hereditary practices in the Central Highlands, and more particularly to a single remote Sinhala community, Mimure, in the hinterlands of the Kandy District - Furniture and Decorative Arts of Sri Lanka (FDASL)An image database of approximately 1,000 images of 400 unique items that were photographed by the project's principal researcher, Ayesha Abdur-Rahman, from 2006 to 2009. The first collections to be described were the furniture collections of the National Museums of Sri Lanka in Colombo, Galle, Kandy, and at Pettah. These collections primarily consist of furniture from the Portuguese, Dutch and British Periods (17th to 19th centuries). The second collection is a collection of small brass objects from the late 19th and early 20th century belonging to Sheeraz Sellamuttu.
Media (Images)--South Asia Multi-Region Collections
- AGSL Digital Photo Archive: Asia and Middle EastOver 20,000 images from the holdings of the American Geographical Society (AGS) Library. Coverage includes Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Thailand (among other countries).
- Alka Patel: South Asian and Cuban Art and Architecture
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Documents Islamic art and architecture from 12th to the 18th centuries in India and Pakistan. . From ARTstor collections.
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Browse by "geography" to locate country specific images.
- American Council for Southern Asian Art (ACSAA) Collection (University of Michigan)
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From ARTstor collections. - Ames Library of South Asia--ImagesSearch selected digitized photographs from the Ames Library of South Asia, University of Minnesota. Or browse the general collection and stereoscopic images of India. Includes maps, illustrations and photographs dating from the 18th through the 20th century.
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Associated Press archive of over photographs from 1844 to the present, audio files of radio broadcasts, text of wire stories, and info-graphics.
- Art ProjectGoogle Cultural Institute. The Art Project is a unique collaboration with some of the world’s most acclaimed art institutions to enable people to discover and view artworks online in extraordinary detail.A wide range of institutions, large and small, traditional art museums as well as less traditional settings for great art are represented in the expanded Art Project.
- Asian Cultures CollectionMaterials in the Earlham collection are drawn from a broad spectrum of Asian cultures and includes materials both historic and contemporary
- Asian Historical ArchitectureA photographic survey of Asia's architectural heritage in 21 countries. Multiple contributors, webmaster: Timothy M. Ciccone
- Asianart.comThe on-line journal for the study and exhibition of the arts of Asia
- ASIANetwork-Luce Asian Art in the Undergraduate Curriculum ProjectSeeks to tap the Asian art and items of visual culture that exist on selected ASIANetowork college campuses and help faculty who are teaching about Asia integrate these resources into their courses.
- Beyond the Taj: Architectural Traditions and Landscape Experience in South AsiaCornell University Library. The visual core of the collection consists of approximately 7000 photographs of works of architecture, pilgrimage locales and domestic life taken in India and Sri Lanka by Professor Robert D. “Scotty” MacDougall (1940-1987), an anthropologist and an architect.
- Beyond the Taj: Architectural Traditions and Landscape Experience in South Asia (Cornell University Library)
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From ARTstor collections. - British Library--Asia, Pacific & Africa CollectionsBegun by the East India Company in 1801, this fascinating survey of the landscape and architectural heritage of South Asia spans the late-18th to mid-20th centuries. Online gallery.
- Huntington Archive of Asian ArtCountries covered in the collection include Afghanistan, Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Myanmar (Burma). Contains predominantly Buddhist material, but also includes Hindu, Jain, and Islamic works as well. Also includes the largest photographic archive of Nepali art and architecture in the world. Also see The Huntington Archive of Buddhist and Asian Art--Database.
- Indira Gandhi National Centre for the ArtsThe arts are here understood to comprise the fields of creative and critical literature, written and oral; the visual arts, ranging from architecture, sculpture, painting and graphics to general material culture, photography and film; the performing arts of music, dance and theatre in their broadest connotation; and all else in fairs, festivals and lifestyle that has an artistic dimension. Digital resources include manuscripts, online books, photographs, slides, music/performance, Ganjifa cards, etc.
- International Collections DatabaseShowcases some of the visual materials held by the Special Collections Division of University of Washington Libraries. Feature selected photographs and postcards from Asia and South America including scenes from China, India, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Japan, 1870s-1930s. Represented are historical events, typical street scenes and native people in traditional dress.
- Mountains of Central Asia digital dataset
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PAHAR. Consists of a collection of books, journals and maps related broadly to the Himalayas and its outlying attached ranges including the Hindu Kush, the Karakorams, the Pamirs, the Tian Shan and the Kuen Lun as well as the Tibetan highlands and the Tarim basin. - 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.
- South Asian and Himalayan ArtFreer Sackler collections. Browse artworks online.
- South Asian art photo collectionMicrofiche reproduction of original photographs in the American Committee for South Asian Art Archive. Avery and Offsite. Part three accompanied by printed guide.
- South Asian Diaspora Literature and Arts ArchiveThe SALIDAA digital archive covers five subject areas: literature, visual arts, theatre, dance and music. It features a wide variety of text-based and visual material such as excerpts of fiction, poetry and plays, manuscripts and writers' notes, art works, photographs, leaflets, programmes of events, stage and costume drawings of theatre and dance performances, lyrics, CD and record covers, and music scores relating to the substantial body of work produced by South Asian writers, artists, performers and musicians in England from 1947 to the present.
- Tasveer Ghar: A Digital Network of South Asian Popular Visual CultureDocuments materials produced by South Asia’s exciting popular visual sphere including posters, calendar art, pilgrimage maps and paraphernalia, cinema hoardings, advertisements, and other forms of street and bazaar art.
- Trans Asia Photography ReviewDevoted to the discussion of historic and contemporary photography from Asia.