Journalism in South Asia: Electronic Resources

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)

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

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.

Collection 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.

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.

"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

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 features titles published in India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. Languages include English, Bengali, Gujarati, and others. Titles include such key publications as: Amrita Bazar Patrika (Calcutta), Bankura Darpana (Bankura, India), Madras Mail (Madras), Tribune (Lahore, Pakistan) and the Ceylon Observer (Sri Lanka) ... The collection will provide more than 400,000 fully searchable pages of newspapers published in South Asia between 1864 and 1922."--Center for Research Libraries.