region: South Asia

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Census of India

Database

“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 […]

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Pakistan Bureau of Statistics

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Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) is the prime official agency of Pakistan, responsible for collection, compilation and dissemination of reliable and timely statistical information to the policy makers, planners and researchers. It publishes a variety of reports, based on primary and secondary data, especially on economics and social aspects of the country. Main Activities of […]

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Bibliography of Asian Studies

Database

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.  

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South Asia Open Archives (SAOA)

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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, […]

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Pakistan Research Repository (PRR)

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PRR is a repository hosted by the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan providing full-text access to doctoral theses produced in the country in a wide range of academic disciplines. The interface is in English and contains RSS feeds to alert users to new content.

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Elections in India

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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.  

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Karl Reinhold Haellquist’s Memorial Collection

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In the year 2000 Karl Reinhold Haellquist, a historian and South Asia specialist working at the Nordic Institute for Asian Studies (NIAS) in Copenhagen, passed away leaving behind a large private collection of books, journals, videotapes and pamphlets on various aspects of South Asian studies. Parts of the collection, approximately 600 volumes, are now available […]

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Times of India (1838-2010)

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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 […]

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Asian newspaper – Sri Lanka

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Via PressReader’s collection you can read a number of Asian newspapers and magazines on the day they are published. In the new version PressReader it is possible to set your own account and customize the outlook of PressReader by choosing specific countries, newspapers and topics. You can also set up e-mail alerts. PressReader user guide […]

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Asian newspapers – Pakistan

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Via PressReader’s collection you can read a number of Asian newspapers and magazines on the day they are published. In the new version PressReader it is possible to set your own account and customize the outlook of PressReader by choosing specific countries, newspapers and topics. You can also set up e-mail alerts. PressReader user guide […]

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