region: India

South Asian Newspapers

East View has announced OA acces to a collection of South Asian Newspapers, including 9 titles from the period 1850-1992: Daily Business Post Dainika basumatī (দৈনিক বসুতী) Dnyānaprakāśa (ज्ञानप्रकाश : the daily Dnyan Prakash) Eastern Examiner  Kerala chronicle Lahore Chronicle Malabar Herald Pakistan Observer Samaja The 9 titles with language, location and available years can […]

Shodhganga – Reservoir of Indian Electronic Theses and Dissertations

“Shodhganga” is a common digital repository of Indian Electronic Theses and Dissertations set-up by the INFLIBNET Centre and containing over 383.000 full-text theses and dissertations from Indian acadmic institutions.  It provides a platform for research scholars to deposit their Ph.D. theses and make it available to the entire scholarly community in open access.

National Archives of India

The National Archives of India proides  free online access to some of their collections of historical material via the Abhilekh Patal portal for access to archives and learning.   There are 16 different collections incl. e g Education and health, home political, private records, public records. There is also the possiblity to ask for digitization on […]

Space and Culture, India

Indialogs. Spanish Journal of India Studies

Census of India

“The Indian Census is the largest single source of a variety of statistical information on different characteristics of the people of India. With a history of more than 130 years, this reliable, time tested exercise has been bringing out a veritable wealth of statistics every 10 years, beginning from 1872 when the first census was […]

Bibliography of Asian Studies

Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS) is the most comprehensive Western-language bibliographical database for research on East, Southeast and South Asia. Published by the Association for Asian Studies, it covers all subjects with special focus on the humanities and social sciences. Red more in this information leaflet on BAS.  

South Asia Open Archives (SAOA)

South Asia Open Archives is a free open-access resource for research and teaching – a rich and growing curated collection of key historical and contemporary sources in arts, humanities and social sciences, from and about South Asia, in English and other languages of the region. SAOA’s collection contains hundreds of thousands of pages of books, […]

Elections in India

Elections in India was launched by Datanet India in September, 2012 and parliament constituency-wise election data, since independence, for all the 543 parliament and 4120 state assembly constituencies in India. The company is a non-partisan company and offers free information to the research community with the website.  

Times of India (1838-2010)

The Times of India is an Indian English-language daily newspaper, the  third-largest newspaper in India by circulation and largest selling English-language daily in the world  It is the oldest English-language newspaper in India still in circulation with its first edition published in 1838 and the second-oldest Indian newspaper still in circulation. The Times of India issued its first […]