Nepal: History
Rani of Nepal, 1920
Textual Databases (Nepal)
- Rare Books & Manuscripts--Digital HimalayaBooks in pdf format in English and Nepali on Bhutan, India, Nepal and Tibet.
- Tamang Historical DocumentseCommons, Cornell University. The documents in this collection are the result of ethnographic field research by David Holmberg, Kathryn March, Mukta Singh Lama Tamang, and Suryaman Tamang in the regions of ethnic Tamang residence in Nepal. Included in this collection are 113 documents both in Tibetan and in Nepali. They come from both private and monastic holdings and pertain to clan histories, land and labor obligations, and relations between local Tamang communities and the Nepal Government over the last 200 years.
Textual Databases (multi-regional)
- CrossAsia-RepositoryCrossAsia platform for publishing and archiving research literature in Asian Studies. Search or browse by country.
- Ethnologue: languages of the worldA comprehensive reference work cataloging all of the world’s known living languages, since 1951. 19th edition. Browse by languages or countries.
- GRETIL - Göttingen Register of Electronic Texts in Indian Languages and related Indological materials from Central and Southeast AsiaA cumulative register of the numerous download sites for electronic texts in Indian languages.
- Library of Congress: South Asia CollectionsHosted on the Internet Archive
- Literatur zu Südasien – digitalThe Library of the South Asia Institute of the University of Heidelberg offers access to digital full text versions of selected works of literature from the 18th to the early 20th century.
- PANDiT : Prosopographical Database for Indic TextsA digital humanities project with a unique and ambitious task: to create a database for the vast world of South Asian letters. PANDiT seeks to store, curate, and share reliable data on works, people, places, institutions, and manuscripts from premodern South Asia, in addition to relevant secondary sources, and to do so across period, language, discipline and subject matter. It is designed as an interactive web-based repository that scholars of every South Asian specialty and interest can contribute to and as a basic tool on which they will routinely come to rely.
- South and Southeast Asian literature : classic and postcolonial writers in English, 1825 to present. This link opens in a new windowThe collection comprises literature written originally in English by writers who either were born in or identify themselves culturally with India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, the Maldives, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, and Fiji. Because the South and Southeast Asian Diasporas are so widely cast, the collection also includes the work of writers living or working in Africa, the United Kingdom, North America, and the Caribbean. The collection will focus upon literature written during the late-colonial and postcolonial eras, but it will also include earlier work that is essential to scholarship in this area.
- South Asian American Digital Archive (SAADA)SAADA creates a more inclusive society by giving voice to South Asian Americans through documenting, preserving, and sharing stories that represent their unique and diverse experiences.
- South Asian Manuscripts at the Library of CongressInformation about rare manuscripts in various South Asian languages (e.g., Sanskrit, Urdu, Tamil, Sinhalese) available for research in the Asian Division of the Library of Congress.