Journalism in South Asia: Electronic Resources
Media and journalism in and about South Asia
Aggregator News Sites
- AP images. This link opens in a new window
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Associated Press archive of images, audio files, and wire texts, from 1844 to the present. Advanced search includes a country search facet
- Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS)National News Agency of Bangladesh
- CNN--AsiaCable News Network. Turner Broadcasting System
- Countercurrents.org"An alternative to the mainstream media" Based in Kerala, India
- Dunya TVPakistan private television channel
- freeTVAll.comAggregates third party TV links, many from South Asia
- Gale newsvault . This link opens in a new window
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Gale NewsVault delivers the definitive cross-searching experience for exploring Gale's range of historical newspaper and collections. Users can simultaneously search or browse across multiple products owned by their institution, including: 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers; 19th Century British Library Newspapers, Parts I and II; 19th Century UK Periodicals, Series I: New Readerships; 19th Century UK Periodicals, Series II: Empire; 19th Century U.S. Newspapers; Financial Times Historical Archive 1888-2006; Illustrated London News Historical Archive 1842-2003; Times Digital Archive 1785-1985; and Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive 1902-2005.
- Geo-TVTV news from Pakistan
- kafila.org"This team blog is a collaborative practice of radical political and media critique"
- Library PressDisplay
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Use "publications by country" links, or search for titles using the top toolbar - Newsline"Your hotline to Pakistan"
- Radio Free AsiaRFA 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.
- Reuters -- South AsiaSouth Asia headlines from Reuters
- World-newspapers--AsiaSearch news source by country
Blogs/Commentaries
- The changing role of the news media in contemporary IndiaIn this address given in Patiala on December 10, 2011, N. Ram, Editor-in-Chief of The Hindu and president of the Contemporary India section of the 72nd Session of the Indian History Congress, takes a critical look at the changing role of the news media in contemporary India.
- SAJA forumSouth Asian Journalists Association blog
- Sanhati"Fighting neoliberalism in Bengal and beyond." Aims to provide a platform for evolving news, analyses, debates pertaining to the political economy of India and the world, with special emphasis on West Bengal. Endeavours is to give a voice to progressive reporting that is often unrepresented in, and ignored by, the corporate media, with a cautious eye on the objectivity of reporting.
Mosquito Repellant Newspaper in Sri Lanka
Access World News
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Access World News is a comprehensive resource that includes a variety of news publications worldwide. These sources include major national and international newspapers, as well as local and regional titles as well as newswires, blogs, web-only content, videos, journals, magazines, transcripts and more. Access World News is updated daily. This database combines news articles from more than 12,000 sources and over 200 countries. Much of the material in non-English languages has been translated into English, but a significant amount of material is presented in the original language.
African Historical Newspapers
- South Asia Newspapers in Africa regionAfrica's historical newspapers provides full-text access to historical newspapers from Africa. Includes South Asia content such as Indian Opinion and Indian Voice of British East Africa.
Bengali Periodicals and Newspapers
- Periodicals and Newspapers from BengalThe Hiteshranjan Sanyal Memorial Archive is a huge collection of textual and visual materials mainly focused on colonial Bengal. Starting in 1993, the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta (CSSSC) has undertaken the task of microfilming and digitising a huge amount of textual sources, including all the major journals of colonial Bengal. The textual part of this collection is from now on going to be made available on CrossAsia-Repository.
Eighteenth Century Newspapers
- Eighteenth century journals : a portal to newspapers and periodicals, c1685-1835. This link opens in a new window
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Offers access to the British Newspaper Library at Colindale, London and to the Hope Collection at the Bodleian Library, Oxford. View listing by place of publication or use advanced search to locate newspapers from:- Bombay (Bombay Courier 1793-1812, Bombay Gazette 1792-1814)
- Calcutta (Asiatic Mirror and Commercial Advertiser 1793-1798, Bengal Lottery 1793, Calcutta Chronicle and General Advertiser 1787-1790, Calcutta Friday Morning Post and General Advertiser 1793, Calcutta Gazette or, Oriental Advertiser 1793, Calcutta Gazette 1791-1794, Calcutta Gazette or Oriental Advertiser 1784-1791, Calcutta Morning Post Extraordinary 1793, Hicky's Bengal Gazette or Calcutta General Advertiser 1780-1782, India Gazette or Calcutta Public Advertiser 1780-1793, World 1794)
- Madras (Hircarrah 1794, Madras Courier 1790-1792, Madras Gazette 1795-1809, The Phoenix 1797)
Foreign Broadcast Information Service
- Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) daily reports . This link opens in a new window
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FBIS provides daily coverage of non-U.S. radio broadcasts and other media. Coverage ranges from 1941 to 1996. It is organized by region. Search by location using the interactive map. South Asian countres include Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka
World News Connection (back file)
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Offers translated and English language news and information compiled from non-United States media sources. Coverage includes political, environmental, scientific, technical, and socioeconomic issues and events. Contains information derived from full-text and summaries of newspaper articles, conference proceedings, television and radio broadcasts, periodicals, and non-classified technical reports.
For South Asia specific material click on the "Near East & South Asia" button in the region column. Note that this is a back file; covering Nov. 1, 1995 through December 31, 2013. Eastview is no longer updating this resource.
Himalayan newspapers
- Himalayan times (Kalimpong, India, 1947-63)Provides online access to more than 90 percent of the issues of the newspaper from 1949 to 1963. Individual pages can be viewed in various file formats, and the system also features a full text search in all available issues.
Official Government News Sites
- Ministry of External Affairs, Government of IndiaIncludes latest news, video briefings, and media center among other resources.
Service Newspapers of World War Two
This database includes Fauji Akhbar, a visual publication for Indian troops, and Victory, another highly visual publication for British soldiers serving in India.
- Service newspapers of World War Two This link opens in a new windowCollection of newspapers produced by and/or for service members during and immediately after World War II (1939-1948), featuring titles from the major theatres, for both Allied and Axis forces.
Open Access Sites
- East View Global Press ArchiveEncompassing newspapers in more than 30 languages, GPA will ultimately include thousands of titles from across the globe, all presented in full-image and full-text format optimized for scholarly use.
- South Asia NewspapersGlobal Press Archive (East View). Daily Business Post (Karachi, Pakistan: 1963.08.01 to 1973.02.13); Dainika basumatī (দৈনিক বসুতী) (Kolkata, India: 1962.01.04 to 1992.08.31); Dnyānaprakāśa (ज्ञानप्रकाश : the daily Dnyan Prakash) (Pune, India: 1914.10.05 to 1938.08.27); Eastern Examiner (Chittagong, Bangladesh: 1962.01.18 to 1973.09.27); Kerala Chronicle (Thrissur, India: 1962.01.01 to 1963.12.31); Lahore Chronicle (Lahore, Pakistan: 1850.06.05 to 1868.11.28); Malabar Herald (Kochi, India: 1962.01.06 to 1972.12.23); Pakistan Observer (Dhaka, Bangladesh: 1962.01.01 to 1971.02.28); Payām-i mujāhid (Kabul, Afghanistan: 1997.03.05 to 2010.11.13); Samaja (Lalitpur, Nepal: 1978.06.15 to 1983.12.14)
- South Asia Open ArchivesA collection of open access materials, for the study of South Asia via the Center for Research Libraries Global Resources Network in partnership with JSTOR. Over 350,000 pages of historical and contemporary content in the arts, humanities, and social sciences, in English and a variety of South Asian languages.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers
- ProQuest historical newspapers. Hindustan times This link opens in a new window"This nationalist daily and one of the largest newspapers in India, was founded in 1924 by the leader of the Akali movement, Sunder Singh Lyallpuri. Introduced at the opening ceremony by Mahatma Gandhi and edited by his son, Devdas Gandhi, the Hindustan Times played an essential role in the Indian independence movement. Today this historical newspaper serves researchers interested in studying colonialism and post-colonialism, British and world history, class and gender issues, international relations, comparative religion, international economics, terrorism, and more. This paper is the second most widely read English newspaper in India (after The Times of India)."--Publisher information
- ProQuest historical newspapers. Times of India (1838-2002) . This link opens in a new window
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The Times of India (1838-2001) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue for the following titles: The Bombay times and journal of commerce (1838-1859), The Bombay times and standard (1860-1861), and The times of India (1861-current).
South Asian Newspapers (World Newspaper Archive)
- South Asian newspapers / from the World Newspaper Archive in partnership with the Center for Research Libraries. This link opens in a new window
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Includes titles published in India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka- Amrita Bazar Patrika (Bengali, English, Calcutta, India, 1895-1922)
- Amrita Bazar Patrika (Bengali, English, Calcutta, India, 1870-1921)
- Bankura Darpan (Bengali, Bankura, India, 1903-1908)
- Ceylon Observer (English, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 1864-1922)
- Indian People (English, Allahabad, India, 1903-1909)
- Kayasare hinda (English, Gujarati, Bombay, India, 1882-1922)
- Leader (English, Allahabad, India, 1909-1922)
- Madras Mail (English, Madras, India, 1868-1889)
- Pioneer (English, Allahabad, India, 1865-1903)
- Tribune (English, Lahore, Pakistan, 1881-1922)