region: South Asia

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Historical maps of Southeast Asia and Singapore

Database

“On August 30, the online platform Historical Maps of Southeast Asia was launched. The platform provides access to over 1,400 digitised maps of Southeast Asia from the collections of the National Library Board Singapore (307 maps), Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library – Yale University (150 maps), Bodleian Libraries – University of Oxford (387 maps) […]

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E-books from ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute

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ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute is a leading research centre dedicated to the study of socio-political, security, and economic trends and developments in Southeast Asia and its wider geostrategic and economic environment. ISEAS Publishing disseminates important research and analyses from and about Southeast Asia to the rest of the world and is the largest publisher […]

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Transcultural Research – Heidelberg Studies on Asia and Europe in a Global Context

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“Transcultural Research ­– Heidelberg Studies on Asia and Europe in a Global Context presents peer-reviewed books by members of the Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context: The Dynamics of Transculturality” as well as scholars from historical and empirical disciplines who are working on emerging fields that cross disciplinary boundaries. The book […]

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DOAB – Directory of Open Access Books

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DOAB is a discovery service for  peer reviewed open access books and book publishers that indexes and provides access to over 65.000 high quality, open access, peer-reviewed books. TERMS OF USE: All books listed in DOAB are freely accessible and therefore free to read, but this does not mean readers are free to do anything […]

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Global China

E-book

Ivan Franceschini and Nicholas Loubere have co-authored a short book titled Global China as Method. The book argues that even after four decades of integration into the global socioeconomic system, discussions of China continue to be underpinned by a core assumption: that the country represents a fundamentally different ‘other’ that somehow exists outside the ‘real’ world. […]

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South Asian Newspapers

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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 […]

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Shodhganga – Reservoir of Indian Electronic Theses and Dissertations

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“Shodhganga” is a digital repository of Indian electronic theses and dissertations containing over 444.000 theses . Submission of an electronic version of PhD theses and dissertations by researchers in Indian universities is mandated since 2016 in order to facilitate open access to Indian theses and dissertations to the academic community world-wide. The word “Shodh” originates […]

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National Archives of India

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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 […]

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