Useful Links
Digital Archives & Repositories
A one-stop portal that collates and provides links to various digital archives pertaining to South Asian studies, including the National Archive of India, The Roja Muthiah Research Library, People’s Archive of Rural India, 1947 Partition Archive, Indian Memory Project, etc.
A multimedia repository of a million plus items related to India, hosted by the Internet Archive; especially rich in texts – both in English and in Indian languages – from the colonial era.
An amazing open-access archive of documents from all over the Indian subcontinent, digitized by the British Library.
An open-access archive of audio/visual recordings from the repositories of Prasar Bharathi – India’s apex public broadcasting agency – including audio recordings of the Constituent Assembly debates.
An archive of press releases by Government of India’s various ministries
The online archive of the National Centre for Biological Sciences; particularly useful for history of bio-science research in India.
An audio archive of field recordings of Bengali folk musicians from West Bengal, Bangladesh and the Bengali diaspora
A splendid multimedia archive and website featuring audio/visual recordings of various practitioners in the Kabir traditions of of the north Indian Bhakti; a part of the Kabir Project, conceived and helmed by Shabnam Virmani.
An open-access archive of historical newspapers from all over the world, including India
An audio-visual archive of pre-television news reels pertaining to India from the Reuters collection.
Documents from the National Archive of Pakistan
Public History Online
- EXPLORING INDIA’S GANGA-JAMUNI TEHZEEB: This website cum blog platform is curated by the historian and littérateur, Rana Safvi, focusing on the syncretic cultures of the Gangetic plains in north India.
- SAHAPEDIA: An open-access, multimedia, multilingual online portal exploring different aspects of subcontinental peoples and cultures.
- SCROLLS AND LEAVES: An audio podcast that presents lesser-known stories from the storied worlds of the Indian Ocean (check out an interview with History faculty-member, Dr. Tarangini Sriraman, on plague control regimes in colonial Bombay on the site).
- HISTORY OF INDIA PODCAST: An engaging podcast on ancient India by our own Dr. Kit Patrick, a philosophy faculty member at SAS.
- AUGTRAVELER: A virtual reality touring experience of India’s historical monuments.
- INDIAN OCEAN IN WORLD HISTORY: An excellently curated, accessible resource website for the long history of the Indian Ocean Trade Network.
- THE SILK ROADS PROGRAM: An UNESCO initiative to bring different aspects of the history and the present of this legendary Silk Road trade network to the public.