Welcome to the What's New page of the Digital South Asia Library. Look here for periodic updates about new resources, on-going projects and other news.National Endowment for the Humanities funds South Asian Union Catalogue, Phase II
The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded a three year grant of $248,976 to the University of Chicago for the South Asia Union Catalogue, Phase II. Among the collaborators, the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, will play an important role in the development of this essential resource. A brief abstract of the project is available at, http://dsal.uchicago.edu/sauc/sauc-neh-2005.pdf.
New Resources
Schwartzberg. Joseph E. A Historical Atlas of South Asia. 2nd impression, with additional material. New York ; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992.
India. Department of Education. The Indian copyright regulations, 1914. Delhi, 1914.
New dictionaries at the Digital Dictionaries of South Asia. During the past six months two new dictionaries have been added: Samsada Bangala Abhidhana and The Aryabhusan school dictionary, Marathi-English.
Coleman, F.M., Typical Pictures of Indian Natives.
A selection from the illustrations which have appeared in the Oudh Punch from 1877 to 1881.
South Asia Union Catalogue, an historical bibliography describing books and periodicals published in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, colonial Burma, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka from 1556 through the present and a union catalogue of holdings. This is a beta version.
Nearly 100 images of South Asia during WWII in the Keagle Photograph Library.
Over 600 images of South Asia during WWII in the Bond Photograph Library.
A further 7381 images were added to the American Institute for Indian Studies Photo Archive.
Resources in Development
Nearly 1500 images in the Tamil Cinema Photograph Library.
Tamil Cinema Journals from the University of Michigan.
Maps from the atlas volume of the Imperial Gazetteer of India.
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