Digital Collections

Digital Libraries and Collections:

Archives of Economic life in South and Southeast Asia: Short Guide to Online Archives for Students

Abhilekh Patal accesses the National Archives of India’s Online Reference Media and its Digitized Collections.

Afghanistan: The Arthur Paul Afghanistan Collection at the University of Nebraska-Omaha

Afghanistan Digital Library 1870-1930

Basic documents in the development of modern India and Pakistan, 1835-1947, by Christine Dobbin. London, New York, Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1970, 167 p.

Central Secretariat Library Digital Collections (a Government of India library)

Digital Repository of Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics is an enormous collection

Digital South Asia Library

Endangered Archives Programme.  Explore the Archives, then narrow by Related Places or Project Country on left.

Foundations of Pakistan : All-India Muslim League documents, 1906-1947, ed. by Syed Sharifuddin Pirzada. Islamabad : National Institute of Historical and Cultural Research Center of Excellence, Quaid-i-Azam University, 2007-
--v. 1. 1906-1924 -- v. 2. 1924-1947 -- v. 3. Documents, 1906-1947

Harappa: The Indus Valley and the Raj in India and Pakistan offers images, audio files, etc. on the Indus Valley 2000 BCE to the 1947 partition. Hard to navigate.

Internet Indian History Sourcebook

The Long Emergency: Media and Democracy in India (1975-1977) offers oral history interviews documenting journalism.  Also includes films, cartoons, news clippings, government documents, and court judgements.

Medical History of British India (19th-20th century) includes veterinary medicine and animal husbandry.

Qatar Digital Library includes South Asian material.  Explore yields Filters on left, including Filter by Place

SOAS Digital Collections (School of Oriental AND African Studies, Univ. of London)

Urban History Documentation Archive of the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta (CSSSC) includes:
a) printed literature in the vernaculars relating to social and cultural history, mostly periodicals from Eastern India printed from the inception of printing until the 1950s and in Bengali and Assamese.
b) visual documents, mainly early popular visual forms of productions in Bengal, modern academic art forms and photographs
c) advertisement and commercial art in Bengali from 1800 to –1950.

World Digital Library. Pakistan. To refine your set open View all 252 items, then Narrow results on top left

Wilson Center Digital Archive