Asia, South and Southeast

The AsiaPortal e-resources collection "focuses primarily on resources for  studies of modern and contemporary Asia defined as Central Asia, East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia and Oceania. There are databases, information rich websites, e-books and journals. Most resources are freely available, but some are licensed only for use by students and staff at Nordic NIAS Council"

Harvard Library E-Resources

South and Southeast Asian literature: classic and postcolonial writers in English, 1825 to present includes writers who were born in or identify themselves culturally with India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, the Maldives, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, and Fiji.  Includes the work of writers in Africa, the United Kingdom, North America, and the Caribbean. Focuses on literature of the late-colonial and postcolonial eras, but also includes earlier work.

U.S. intelligence on Asia, 1945-1991 offers declassified documents on U.S. intelligence community. Covers People's Republic of China, North Korea and North Vietnam, Japan, Taiwan, Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, and Australia.

South Asia

See also: 

Guide for South Asian digital libraries and resources for finding digital collections on South Asia in Finding Primary Sources Online

South Asia digital collections

Center for Research Libraries (CRL) Topic Guide: South Asia

Harvard Library E-Resources

Afghanistan and the US, 1945-1963: Records of US State Department Classified Files

Afghanistan in 1919: The Third Anglo-Afghan War. From the India Office records.

Area Studies India offers several collections previously only on microfilm: Colonial discourses: series 3: colonial fiction, 1712-1933 -- Curzon, India and empire: the papers of Lord Curzon (1859-1925) from the British Library, London -- The empire writes back: part one: Indian views on Britain and empire, 1810-1915, from the British Library, London -- India during the Raj: eyewitness accounts: diaries and related records describing life in India, 1712-1925 -- India in the age of empire: the journals of Michael Pakenham Edgeworth (1812-1881) from the Bodleian Library, Oxford -- Indian newspaper reports, c. 1868-1942.

Balochistan Archives includes a catalog of holdings of books, maps,and manuscripts, as well as finding aids to archival collections, together with a digital collection of books, manuscripts, maps, and genealogies concerning Balochistan Province, Pakistan.

East India Company. Module 1, Trade, governance and Empire, 1600-1947 offers documents from the India Office Records at the British Library.

Evangelism in India: Correspondence of the Board of Foreign Missions, 1833-1910

Foreign Office Files for India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan, Section II: South Asian Conflicts and Independence for Bangladesh, 1964-71. Sections on additional subjects will be added in the future.

Foreign Office Files for India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan, Section II (1947-1980) contains the DO 133, DO 134, FO 371 and FCO 37 files from The National Archives, Kew.

India from Crown Rule to Republic, 1945-1949: Records of the U.S. State Department

India-Pakistan Conflict: Records of the U.S. State Department, February 1963-1966

India, Raj and Empire

The Indian Army and Colonial Warfare on the Frontiers of India, 1914-1920 concerns the area between India and Afghanistan. Includes over 5,000 images and a wide variety of military records and regimental histories. From the British Library

South Asia open archives (SAOA) offers materials from the Center for Research Libraries Global Resources Network.  In English and South Asian languages.  Subset of the South Asia Materials Project (SAMP). Historical and contemporary content in the arts, humanities, and social sciences, in English and  South Asian languages.

Southeast Asia

See also: Library Research Guide for HIST 1037: Modern Southeast Asia

Guide for Southeast Asian digital libraries and resources for finding digital collections on Southeast Asia in Finding Primary Sources Online

Harvard Library E-Resources

 

Asia and the West: Diplomacy and Cultural Exchange (In: Nineteenth Century Collections Online).  To browse the Collections within Asia and the West, open menu in search box on upper left.  Click on image under Asia and the West.  You can search within a Collection, or in Advanced search you can limit to Collection.  Largely UK and US diplomatic and consular records with some missionary correspondence and publications.

European Colonialism in the Early 20th Century: Colonialism and Nationalism in the Dutch East Indies (1910-1930) offers US State Department documents, including correspondence, studies and reports, cables, maps, etc., related to U.S. consular activities.

Foreign Office files for South East Asia, 1963-1980

The International Women's Movement: The Pan Pacific / Southeast Asia Women

Online Burma/Myanmar Library is an index to over 30,000 full texts of individual Burma documents on the Internet. It also houses articles, conference papers, theses, books, reports, archives and directories. Includes the Burma Press Summary archive).

Southeast Asia Digital Library

Sukarno and the Army-PKI Rivalry in the Years of Living Dangerously, 1960-1963 includes US Department of State records consisting of memoranda, correspondence, telegrams, memoranda of conversations, reports, and news articles concerning U.S. relations with Indonesia, Indonesian internal affairs, and Indonesia’s foreign relations.