Context and Background

New Cambridge history of India

Banglapedia - the National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh is a comprehensive reference work on Bangladesh from high ancient period to date.

Historical dictionary of India, by Surjit Mansingh. 2nd ed. Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2006, 833 p.
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India today: an encyclopedia of life in the Republic, ed. by Arnold P. Kaminsky and Roger D. Long. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, 2011. 2 v.
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Historical dictionary of Pakistan, by Shahid Javed Burki. 4th edition. Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, 2015, 657 pages
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Historical dictionary of Sri Lanka, by Patrick Peebles. Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, 2015, 449 pages
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The Oxford companion to Pakistani history, ed. by Ayesha Jalal. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2012, 558 pages
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Brill's Encyclopedia of Hinduism

Oxford Islamic Studies Online includes the searchable content of several reference works including The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World, The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World, and other works. Also contains: The Koran Interpreted (a verse translation), The Qur'an (a prose translation), and A Concordance of the Qur'an.

Encyclopaedia of Islam Online offers over 13,000 articles on topics in Middle Eastern and Islamic studies.  Encyclopaedia of Islam, 3rd ed., offers enhanced coverage of 20th century Islam.