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Asian History: India

Reference Materials: Indian History

South Asia

South Asia
Main Ref DS331 S6518 2007

Cambridge Encyclopedia of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka
Main Ref DS334.9 C36 1989

Historical Atlas of South Asia
Main Ref G2261 S1 H5 1992

India

Encyclopedia of India
Main Ref DS405 .E556 2006

Historical Dictionary of India
Main Ref DS405 .M27 2006

Cultural Atlas of India
Main Ref DS421 .J6 1996

Encyclopaedia of Indian culture
Main Ref DS423 .S218 1985

Manas: History & Politics of India

South Asian Studies, Princeton University Libraries
"Selected links to South Asia related resources at Princeton University Libraries, and on the World Wide Web."

Section on "Asia, South" in Open and Free Access Materials for Research, School of Advanced Study University of London, Institute for Historical Research.

Primary Sources: Indian History

National Digital Library of India

South Asia Open Archives (SAOA) "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 currently contains hundreds of thousands of pages of 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, University of Chicago and the Center for Research Libraries.

The Avalon Project: Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy, Yale Law School
Laws, treaties, commentary from all countries; search by keyword or browse by century

Times (London) Archive (1785-1985) Full text newspaper articles.

Periodical Archives Online  (1685-2000) Full text journal articles.

The Days of John Company : selections from Calcutta Gazette, 1824-1832
Main Libr DS428 .D39 1959

Nineteenth Century
An online index to our microfiche collection of British books and pamphlets published in the 19th century. Bowdoin owns the 'general collection' only which has a subset of books on British colonization. Microfiche General collection shelved as Fiche 1151

Nineteenth Century [microform]
Main Micro Fiche 1151

The parliamentary debates (Hansard) (U.K.)
Govt Doc J301 .H22
Debates on the floor of Parliament relating to legislation; some will be relevant to India. See British History: Primary Sources - Government.

Statistical abstract relating to British India
From 1840 to 1920.

Indian History Sourcebook
A collection of mostly primary source links.

The Imperial Gazetteer of India
In 26 digitized volumes, published between 1908 and 1931.

The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian (Nirad C. Chaudhuri)
Main Libr DS421 .C47

Growing up in British India: Indian autobiographers on childhood and education under the Raj
Main Libr DS428 .W34 1983

See also the Newspapers & Periodicals tab (this guide).