Useful Links

Tips to navigate publication in scholarly journals for early scholars

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• Bioscope: South Asian Screen Studies
• Caste: A global journal on social exclusion
• Contemporary South Asia
• Contemporary Voice of Dalit
• Contributions to Indian Sociology
• Critical Pakistan Studies
• Dastavezi: The audio-visual South Asia
• Economic and Political Weekly
• European Bulletin of Himalayan Research
• History and Sociology of South Asia
• India Review
• Indian Economic and Social History Review
• Indian Historical Review
• Indian Journal of Gender Studies
• Indian Journal of Social Work
• Indo-Iranian Journal
• Interdisciplinäre Zeitschrift für Südasienforschung
• International Journal of Hindu Studies
• Journal of Bangladesh Studies
• Journal of Indian Philosophy
• Journal of South Asian Development
• Journal of the Indian Ocean Region
• Nidan: International Journal for Indian Studies
• Pakistan Journal of Historical Studies
• SAMAJ (South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal)
• Sikh Formations: Religion, Culture, Theory
• Society and Culture in South Asia
• South Asia Research
• South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies
• South Asian Diaspora
• South Asian History and Culture
• South Asian Popular Culture
• South Asian Review
• South Asian Studies
• South Asian Survey
• Studies in History
• Studies in Indian Politics

• South Asia Open Archive


• www.ideasofindia.org is a free database of 315 000 entries from 255 English language periodicals from 1837-1947.


• Some papers in the NMML have been digitised: http://www.nehrumemorial.nic.in/en/digital-archives.html


• Central Secretariat Library


• National Archives of India has some digital files and handlists for private papers online.


• The Centre for Studies in Social Sciences in Kolkata has a great website with lots of resources: http://www.cssscal.org/archive.php


• The Cambridge University Centre South Asian Studies Archive http://www.s-asian.cam.ac.uk/archive/


• The variously-named ‘Indian Owned Newspapers’, ‘Reports from the Vernacular press’) are held in the British Library’s Asian & African Studies section, Shelfmark IOR/L/R/5. Some of these are available at South Asia Open Archive: https://www.jstor.org/site/south-asia-open-archives/saoa/?refreqid=excelsior%3A0671a76c3e554c0354b8eefd7510b0a7


• Some libraries subscribe to ‘South Asian Newspapers’ from the World Newspaper Archive (from the Center for Research Libraries (CRL)). These allow text searches which are particularly useful.


• The Priya Paul Archive has been digitised and is available in the Digital Repository of Heidelberg University https://heidicon.ub.uni-heidelberg.de


• Archive.org


• Wilson Centre Digital Archive


• Indiankanoon.org for Caselaw and legislation from the 1870s


• Abhilekh-Pathal : Portal for access to archives and learning.


• Cambridge Digital Library


• Commonwealth Secretariat Library and Archive


• Film History https://indiancine.ma


• Colonial Film Archive http://www.colonialfilm.org.uk/home


• Pathé Film https://www.britishpathe.com


• Digital Colonial Documents https://arrow.latrobe.edu.au/store/3/4/5/5/2/public/census.htm


• Digital South Asia Library http://dsal.uchicago.edu


• South Asian American Digital Archive https://www.saada.org


• Indian British Connections: the Making Britain Project http://www.open.ac.uk/arts/research/asianbritain/making-britain


• Films Division India on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/user/FilmsDivision


• Lahore University of Management Sciences Digital Library https://archive.lums.edu.pk


• National Digital Library of India https://ndl.iitkgp.ac.in


• University of Tubingen Hermann Gundert Portal (Indian Language Printed Material and Manuscript Collections) https://www.gundert-portal.de


• Kerala Sahitya Akademi Portal (Malayalam Language) http://keralasahityaakademi.org/online_library/index.html


• University of Wisconsin Bhopal Disaster Archive https://repository.law.wisc.edu/s/uwlaw/page/bhopal-collection


• Gokhale Library (Maharashtra, India) Printed Reports https://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/


• The Asiatic Society of Mumbai Digital Collections https://granthsanjeevani.com/jspui/


• Shiju Alex Kerala History Archive (mainly consisting of printed texts in Malayalam but also including several English language Missionary papers) https://shijualex.in


• West Bengal Public Library Network http://dspace.wbpublibnet.gov.in:8080/jspui/


• Harvard University Stuart Cary Welch Islamic and South Asian Photograph Collection https://library.harvard.edu/collections/stuart-cary-welch-islamic-and-south-asian-photograph-collection


• Indian Indenture Project https://indianindenture.wordpress.com


• Digitized Visual Materials for South Asian Studies - Emory University Libraries: https://guides.libraries.emory.edu/c.php?g=1025687&p=7430557


• Emory University Libraries https://guides.libraries.emory.edu/?group_id=20355


• Collection of Japanese propaganda prints aimed at India at the National Army Museum (London) https://collection.nam.ac.uk


• Asiatic Society of Mumbai https://collection.nam.ac.uk


• Media and Democracy in India https://www.longemergency.demx.in


• Digital Law Reports - South Asian Legal History Resources https://salh.law.wisc.edu/2020/07/21/digital-law-reports-research-you-can-do-during-the-pandemic/


• Archives of Economic Life in South and Southeast Asia https://www.histecon.magd.cam.ac.uk/archives-asia/guide.html


• Raul Pacheco-Vega, Phd - Resources http://www.raulpacheco.org/resources/


• Indian Memory Project https://www.indianmemoryproject.com


• Nepal Picture Library https://www.nepalpicturelibrary.org


• Museum of Material Memory http://www.museumofmaterialmemory.com


• Frances Pritchett - Resources http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00fwp/#fwp


• Photo Kathmandu https://photoktm.com/


• Photo Circle https://www.photocircle.com.np/#


• Pakistan Quaterly


• Iniquilab: partly digitised Urdu newspaper


• The 1947 Partition Archive: Survivors and their Memories


• SWAY project on the Nepali Earthquake 2015, SOAS Digital Collections: Survivors and their Memories


• Naval Kishore Press Bibliography


• Cinema Qawwali Archive


• An additional list of Open Access Sources can be found under the South Asia Heading at the Institute of Historical Research (School of Advanced Study University of London): COVID Open Access materials

• The University of Heidelberg has a collection of digital newspapers: http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/de/sammlungen/suedasien.html
  
  
  
  • Hicky's Bengal gazette, or The original Calcutta general advertiser
  • Himalayan Times
  • The Oriental annual: containing a series of tales, legends and historical romances.
  • The Oriental annual or scenes in India: comprising engravings from original drawings by William Daniell and a descriptive account.
  • Zeitschriften aus Bengalen
  • Zeitschriften aus Assam
  
  

• Bengali Oral Histories https://archives.tufts.edu/repositories/2/resources/659


• Making History: British historians reflect on historiography http://www.history.ac.uk/makinghistory/resources/interviews/ and https://winterconference.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2013/02/19/video-interviews-with-historians/


• Handlist for the IIAS’s South Asian Oral history collection in Leiden https://socialhistory.org/sites/default/files/docs/south_asia_oral_history.pdf


• The NMML has an excellent collection of transcripts, which can only be consulted on-site: http://www.nehrumemorial.nic.in/images/pdf/List-of-Finalise-Transcript.pdf


• Gandhian oral histories at: http://gandhiserve.org/activities/research/oral_history.html


• British Voices from South Asia: https://www.lib.lsu.edu/oralhistory/collections/britishvoices


• Partition accounts by survivors at http://www.1947partitionarchive.org


• Oral histories of the Narmada https://oralhistorynarmada.in


• The Roberts Oral History Tapes (1965-69): https://digital.library.adelaide.edu.au/dspace/handle/2440/83263

• See the South Asia databases collection, which has numerous free but some licensed databases, such as:
  
  
  • East India Company
  • Empire Online
  • Foreign Office Files for India, Pakistan and Afghanistan
  • India, Raj and Empire


• There are also licenced databases via CrossAsia, at https://crossasia.org/ressourcen/datenbanken/. These are accessible after registration with CrossAsia. So students have to register first with CrossAsia and then they can access ALL licensed resources available on CrossAsia. For South Asian history these are:
  
  
  • Indian Communists and Trade Unionist on Trial
  • Taking India, how the military established Company rule, 1752-1774
  • Indian and Sri Lankan records from colonial missionaries, 1770-1931
  • India, business and control, 1806-1814
  • India, uprising and reform, 1879-1910
• The South Asian Newspapers collection via Chicago Research Libraries


• Selected works of Jawaharlal Nehru

• Check out the Archives Made Easy page and also Dinyar Patel's blog.


• See also Dinyar Patel’s four-part series on Indian archives in 2012: https://india.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/20/in-india-history-literally-rots-away/


• Resources put together by James Nye, South Asia librarian at U. Chicago: http://guides.lib.uchicago.edu/southernasia


• Archives in Pakistan: http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/12520


• Dissertation Reviews has a section on archives (all around Asia, but includes South Asia) http://dissertationreviews.org/fresh-from-the-archives


• Archives of Economic Life in South and Southeast Asia https://www.histecon.magd.cam.ac.uk/archives-asia/blog.html

• In North America: Annual South Asia Conference, in Madison, Wisconsin


• In Britain: British Association for South Asian Studies (BASAS)


• In Europe: European Conference on South Asian Studies (ECSAS)

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