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History - Asia

A guide to Asian history resources recommended by the library.

Primary Sources Online

South Asia Open Archives
Books, journals, newspapers, census data, magazines, and documents, with particular focus on social & economic history, literature, women & gender, and caste & social structure.

Digital South Asia Library
Maps, statistics, images, and other research resources

The Long Emergency
Oral history interviews documenting journalistic praxis around the time of the Indian emergency, 1975-1977.

Images from the Indian Office (British Library)

Panjab Digital Library

 Centre of South Asian Studies Oral Histories Collection

South Asians in Britain (British Library)

Maps of Asia (British Library)

The Imperial Gazetteer of India

South Asian American Digital Archive
A community-driven online archive of South Asians in the United States.

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Dominique Daniel
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