India: Media

From ARTstor collections.

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"An almost unique series of archaeological and architectural photographs taken in South Asia between the 1850s and the 1920s" Online guide.

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Cornell University Library Digital Collections

DSAL, University of Chicago. Photographs taken during World War II by Frank Bond while serving in the Army Air Corps, 40th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron, stationed in India and Burma.

Deepanjana Danda Klein and Arno Klein. From ARTstor collections.

An initiative by art curator and critic Gayatri Sinha. This website is intended to fill in the lacuna caused by an absence of publishing in the arts, a lack of reprints and a shortage of institutional infrastructure to support knowledge in the domain of the arts.

Institut Français de Pondichéry. The multi-media "Digital Tēvāram" program, was initiated in july 1997, with the purpose of being a continuation to a long-pending translation project of Tēvāram, that had been started in Pondicherry in the seventies and that had resulted in an unpublished ca. 3500 pages manuscript, containing an English rendering of the Tēvāram, in the talamuṟai order, authored by the late V.M. Subrahmanya Ayyar (1905-1981). The multi-media "Digital Tēvāram" program, was initiated in july 1997, with the purpose of being a continuation to a long-pending translation project of Tēvāram, that had been started in Pondicherry in the seventies and that had resulted in an unpublished ca. 3500 pages manuscript, containing an English rendering of the Tēvāram, in the talamuṟai order, authored by the late V.M. Subrahmanya Ayyar (1905-1981).

Online exhibition drawn from the University of California, Berkeley collections. Curator: Suzanne McMahon

Focuses on the religious festivals of the Minaksi-Sundaresvara Temple in Madurai, Tamilnad

Digital Himalaya. Photographs and films from Sikkim, Bhutan and Tibet taken by Frederick and Margaret Williamson between December 1930 and August 1935.

27 photographic images of and related to Mohandas Gandhi created by and for the Press Information Bureau (PIB) of the Government of India, capturing moments in his life from 1886-1948.

The major website on the ancient Indus Civilization (3500-1700 BCE) since 1995. Leading scholars from India, Pakistan, the US, UK, and Europe have published their work in slideshow, essays and articles that cover the basic facts and the latest research. The site was founded by Omar Khan. It went online in November 1995 and was relaunched in December 2015 on the open-source Drupal platform. Links to essays, books, slideshows, and videos.

Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg. South Asia repositories include EXC Sontheimer, SAI Benares-Exkursion 2010, SAI South Asian Archaeology, SFB-619 A2 Übergangsrituelle in Nepal, SFB-619 A4 Rituelles Theater in Uttarakhand, and SFB-619 Hofrituale in Rajasthan.

A comprehensive education and research database and virtual museum of Himalayan art from throughout the world.

A hobby group for discussing all aspects of railways in India. Links to articles, photo gallery, trip reports, and technical documents.

DSAL, University of Chicago. Photographs taken during World War II by an American serviceman.

"Presently as a part of the digitization efforts of the Ministry of Culture, Government of India the digitized collections of 10 selected Museums are placed in the digital repository. Subsequently, it will be our endeavour to make available the digitized collections of the remaining museums under the Ministry of Culture/Archaeological Survey of India also on the National Portal."

Historical postcards of India, Ceylon and Pakistan. Part of the Harappa website.

Presidency plaques project

This Lake Forest College collection contains images of three sites in the west Indian state of Maharashtra

Microfiche reproduction of original photographs in the American Committee for South Asian Art Archive. Avery and Offsite. Offsite MICFICHE FX3 1882 For guide see Avery MICFICHE FX3 1882 Guide

Princeton University Library. An openly accessible repository of items that spans a variety of subjects and languages. Highlights include Dissidents and Activists in Sri Lanka, 1960s to 1990s; and Hindu Nationalist Ephemera: Collection of Arvind Rajagopal, 1960s to 2000s

More than 6000 photographs spanning 30 years of Tibet's history. This site provides access to the photograph collections of two important British museums - the Pitt Rivers Museum (Oxford) and the British Museum (London).

A collection of life stories recorded on video (and sometimes audio) from those who witnessed the 1947 Partition of South Asian States.

Project focuses on conducting oral histories with leading senior intellectuals of West Bengal and Bangladesh, born between c. 1920 and c. 1950. This interactive web archive will provide audio, text, images and links through a synchronized interface.

Designed by Alan Macfarlane and Mark Turin as a strategy for archiving and making available ethnographic materials from the Himalayan region. Based at the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge, the project was established in December 2000. From 2002 to 2005, the project moved to the Department of Anthropology at Cornell University and began its collaboration with the University of Virginia. From July 2014, the project has relocated to the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, and is engaged in a long term collaboration with Sichuan University.

Digital Himalaya. Includes various trailers, and some complete films including the Lepcha film Tendong Lho Rum Faat, Glance of Genius: The Life and Work of B.H. Hodgson, the Minhe Mangghuer Torch Festival, images from Danba, the Alama Ritual, and the Wutu Collection. Locations include China/Tibet, India and Nepal.

The Films Division of India was established in 1948 to articulate the energy of a newly independent nation and holds, in its archives, more than 8000 titles on documentaries, short films and animation films. Includes links to a films database (requires free registration) and videos (under "archives"). Also see Films Division YouTube Channel. Also see Films Division catalogue of films, 1949-1972 published 1974.

Digital Himalaya. Selected film clip excerpts, including Alan Macfarlane's 1987 interview with Fürer-Haimendorf, excerpts from The Land of the Gurkhas depicting Gurung girls in trance during the gato ritual (filmed 1957), excerpts from a field trip to the Apa Tani Valley in Arunachel Pradesh depicting rope swinging, sacrifice, shamanic rituals, and village life (filmed 1944-1945), and an excerpt from Among the Sherpas of Nepal (filmed 1971). The Fürer-Haimendorf film collection is located in the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS).

Digital Himalaya. Williamson was a British Colonial Officer based in Gangtok, Sikkim, from 1930 to 1935, during which time he took a great number of photographs and 23 reels of 16mm cine film. The quality of the footage is variable.

Material acquired from the Kanu Gandhi estate

Digitized recordings originally collected in South Asia during a period from 1913 until 1929. Intended as a supplement to Sir George A. Grierson's Linguistic Survey of India published between 1904 and 1927, the recordings of stories, songs and poems were collected by provincial and presidential governments of British-ruled India in cooperation with Grierson and the Gramophone Company, Calcutta.

The major website on the ancient Indus Civilization (3500-1700 BCE) since 1995. Leading scholars from India, Pakistan, the US, UK, and Europe have published their work in slideshow, essays and articles that cover the basic facts and the latest research. The site was founded by Omar Khan. It went online in November 1995 and was relaunched in December 2015 on the open-source Drupal platform. Links to essays, books, slideshows, and videos.

BBC Radio. The history of India told through the lives of 50 people

Alexander Street. Includes just a few South/Southeast Asia films, including (from Bangladesh) The Clay Bird, (from India) One Track Heart: the Story of Krishna Das; Short Cut to Nirvana; West is West, (from Indonesia) Gods of Bali; Legong: Dance of the Virgins, and (from Thailand) Chang: a Drama of the Wildnerness

A range of documentary films which have been commissioned by the Ministry of External Affairs over the last three decades. These documentary films showcase different facets of India and focus on India's rich cultural and civilizational values, its democratic and pluralistic society, its secular values, its vibrant economy, the innovativeness and enterprise of its people.

Digital Himalaya. includes songs from Laya, Bhutan; Thangmi songs from Nepal; Yari Aso's songs, the Mangghuer Folktale Literature, and songs from Gcig sgril County, from Qinghai Province; the Jizong and Minyak collections from Sichuan and songs from Tha Rgyas in Tibet.

PARI is both a living journal and an archive. It will generate and host reporting on the countryside that is current and contemporary, while also creating a database of already published stories, reports, videos and audios from as many sources as we can.

Sound & Picture ARchives for Research on Women. Women's Archives including papers, videos, and oral history recordings.