Research Guides: South Asia Cross-Regional Resources: Media (Video) South Asia Multiregional

Media (Videos/Audio)--South Asia Multi-Region Collections

Cambridge Centre of South Asian Studies : film collections
University of Cambridge. Approximately 50 individual collections totaling in the region of 80 hours of footage. Most of the material is 16mm or 8mm home movies, taken between 1911 and 1956, which give a unique perspective of life in South Asia towards the end of the British Empire and in the first years of independence. The collection covers a broad range of topics - the rescue of civilians and soldiers trapped inside Burma by swollen rivers after the country's fall to the Japanese in World War II, repairs on the railway line from Quetta to the Khyber Pass after the Quetta earthquake of 1935, relief work and disturbing scenes of the removal of bodies during the Partition period, the social lives of the Raj, children playing and going to school, royal weddings, Indian festivals and rites - the list is very long. The film collection is now available online in its entirety (with one or two omissions for copyright purposes).
Centre of South Asian Studies Archive: Audio
University of Cambridge oral history archive; political leaders, journalists and educators who witnessed and shaped history.
Colonial film : moving images of the British empire
Detailed information on over 6000 films showing images of life in the British colonies. Over 150 films are available for viewing online. You can search or browse for films by country, date, topic, or keyword. Over 350 of the most important films in the catalogue are presented with extensive critical note.
CrossAsia
Multi-regional resources in Asian studies
Culture Unplugged
An online film archive to watch films (documentaries, short films, talks & more). This platform debuted in May 2008 with Asia + Middle East's first online festival followed by fifteen festivals since then. Cultureunplugged.com presents short length + feature length documentary / film content from independent film-makers and grassroot productions to a global audience, to not only promote the art of film-making, but above all to spread awareness and promote the collective contemplation over global/local challenges. It is an online venue that hosts a festival 6 months every year. With volunteer teams in India, USA, Indonesia and New Zealand.

EHRAF archaeology This link opens in a new window
A collection of full-text information (e.g. books, journal articles, and dissertations) on archaeological traditions from around the world. The eHRAF Collection of Archaeology is unique in that the text is subject-indexed for quick retrieval of information. Every year more archaeological traditions are added to the eHRAF Collection of Archaeology.

Ethnomusicology: Global Field Recordings
The audio recordings, videos, field notebooks and journals in this resource document musical traditions and how music interacts with different societies and cultures all over the globe. There are recordings from Alaska to the Pacific Islands, West Africa to Indonesia, including religious music, secular music, celebrations and funerals. There are interviews with musicians, slides and photographs of field sites and photographs of instruments being played and in isolation. This resource provides a wealth of materials for the interdisciplinary study of ethnomusicology; whether the focus is on music, anthropology, dance, religion or spirituality.
Google Arts & Culture
Discover exhibits and collections from museums and archives all around the world.

International bibliography of theatre & dance This link opens in a new window
International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance with Full Text contains all of the content available in International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance as well as full text for 100 titles, including Canadian Theatre Review, Dance Chronicle, Dance Teacher, Modern Drama, PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, Research in Dance Education, Research in Drama Education, Studies in Theatre and Performance, TDR: The Drama Review, Theater, and many more. Additional full text available includes more than 50 books & monographs.
Oral history online This link opens in a new window
"Oral history online is a landmark index to English language oral histories. Working with archives, repositories and individuals we've indexed oral histories that are publicly available on the Web and that are held by repositories and archives around the world. Our intent is to make it possible to find and explore the voices of more than 300,000 individuals."--Introd.

Radio Free Asia
RFA is a private, nonprofit corporation that broadcasts news and information to listeners in Asian countries where full, accurate, and timely news reports are unavailable. Covers Cambodia, China, Laos, Myanmar, North Korea, Tibet, Uyghur, Vietnam.
Reconceptualizing the Cold War: On-the-ground Experiences in Asia
An online archive of oral history collections concerning the Cold War and decolonization in Asia, with a particular focus on East, Southeast, and South Asia.
Shakespeare Performance in Asia
Videos of Asian Shakespeare performances including interactive maps and timelines, interviews, biographies of directors and actors, for understanding intercultural Shakespeare. See also The MIT Global Shakespeares Video & Performance Archive.

South Asia commons. This link opens in a new window
The South Asia Archive is a fully searchable digital archive encompassing millions of pages of valuable research and teaching materials, providing online access to documents ranging from 1700 through to 1953. The Archive covers the Indian subcontinent, including India, Pakistan, Burma, Afghanistan, and Bangladesh, and contains both serial and non-serial materials, including reports, rare books, and journal runs from noteworthy, rare publications. The documents in the Archive are interdisciplinary, reflecting the varied range of knowledge production in colonial and early post-colonial India in fields such as culture & society, industry & economy, science, technology & medicine, urban planning & administration, and politics & law. Most of the material is in English, about 30% of the documents are in vernacular languages, including Bengali and Sanskrit. Comprising material sourced from collectors and archivists in India by the South Asia Research Foundation (SARF), this Archive brings together a wealth of content relevant to both teaching and research.

South Asian Digital Collection
Library of Congress. Features selected books, serials, and manuscripts related to the present-day countries of Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka.
The South Asian Literary Recordings Project, Library of Congress New Delhi Office
Launched in April 2000, the project has captured the readings of prominent South Asian poets, novelists, and playwrights. The authors recorded so far represent more than fifteen of the languages of India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.
South Asian Oral History Project
University of Washington Libraries. Interviews (videos and transcripts) with individuals who immigrated to the Seattle region from the 1950s to the 1980s and later.

World cinema video collection. This link opens in a new window
The World cinema video collection provides access to online streaming titles from Africa, America, Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Middle East, including films from the silent era, from the mid-20th century, as well as award-winning contemporary works.