Oxford LibGuides: South Asian Studies: Free online resources

E-resources

For e-resources on South Asia on the Bodleian's Databases A-Z listing, follow this link

Other useful online resources

Abhilekh Patal
Web portal for the National Archives of India
The Archives of Economic Life in South and Southeast Asia
A guide created by the Joint Centre for History and Economics at Magdalene College and King's College, Cambridge, offering an overview of archival materials on South and Southeast Asia available freely online and also useful information about physical archives in the region.
Bielefelt Academic Search Engine
Search engine especially for academic web resources. BASE provides more than 240 million documents from more than 8,000 content providers. You can access the full texts of about 60% of the indexed documents for free (Open Access)
Census of India
Website of the census of India, excellent source of statistics
Centre of South Asian Studies, University of Cambridge
Information about the Centre, and its library and archival holdings
CrossAsia
New home for - among other resources - SAVIFA, the virtual South Asian library created by Heidelberg University
Digital repository of the Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics
Digitised items from the Dhananjayrao Gadgil Library at the GIPE, particularly useful for historic South Asian government publications
Digital South Asia Library
Dictionaries, maps, statistical information and more
Districts of India
Site developed by the National Informatics Centre to provide district-level information and links to official district websites
Endangered Archives Programme
Website of the Endangered Archives Programme, hosted by the British Library; click on the "Explore the archives" tab to search holdings
ICRISAT District Level Data
District Level Database (DLD) for Indian agriculture and allied sectors, maintained by ICRISAT
India Data Portal
The India Data Portal (IDP) developed by the Bharti Institute of Public Policy (BIPP), Indian School of Business (ISB), provides a one-stop, open-access to data and information, curated from across government departments.
Indian Culture
Government of India platform that hosts data of cultural relevance from various repositories and institutions all over India, including digitised books
Indian District Database
District-level data from census and agricultural sources between 1961 and 1991
Indian Institute of Advanced Studies digital repository
Digital repository of the Indian Institute of Advanced Studies
Lahore School of Economics Digital Repository
A collection of digitized resources hosted by the Lahore School of Economics, including Pakistan census publications.
Medical History of British India, National Library of Scotland
Digitised government publications from the National Library of Scotland's collections, relating to disease, public health and medical research in South Asia, between around 1850 and 1950
National Mission for Manuscripts
The National Mission for Manuscripts was established in February 2003, by the Ministry of Tourism and Culture, Government of India. A unique project in its programme and mandate, the Mission seeks to unearth and preserve the vast manuscript wealth of India.
Naval Kishore Press Bibliographie
Bibliographic database for books and journals published or distributed by the Naval Kishore Press
Open Data Pakistan
Open Data Pakistan is a collaborative effort of the National Center for Big Data and Cloud Computing (NCBC), Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUSM) and Higher Education Commission (HEC)
Open Government Data Platform, India
Data portal of the Government of India
Panjab Digital Library
Digitised resources on Panjab
Perso-Indica
Perso-Indica is a research and publishing project that will produce a comprehensive analytical survey of Persian works on Indian learned traditions, encompassing the treatises and translations produced in India between the 13th and the 19th century.
Rajya Marathi Vikasa Sasthana
Organisation's website with links to digitised books
Sagar
South Asia research journal - as well as the online journal has interesting "review of archives" section
South Asian Ephemera Collection, Princeton Unviersity Library
The South Asian Ephemera Collection complements Princeton's already robust Digital Archive of Latin American and Caribbean Ephemera. The goal of the collection is to provide a diverse selection of resources that span a variety of subjects and languages and support interdisciplinary scholarship in South Asian Studies.
Surveying Empires: the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India
Online map resource giving information about the built heritage in West Bengal associated with the Great Trigonometrical Survey
Tasveer Ghar
Digital network of South Asian popular visual culture
Traces of South Asia - LSE Archives and Special Collections
An ongoing project that seeks to foreground some of the stories in LSE's archives and special collections that speak about South Asia.
War in Asia
Online platform for histories, heritage and memory of WW2 in Asia, website of the international and interdisciplinary network, the "War Memoryscapes in Asia Partnership" (WARMAP), led by the University of Essex and funded by the UK's Leverhulme Trust
West Bengal Secretariat Digital Library
Digitised items from the WB Secretariat Library, including many government titles