India: Reference
Resources for Indian studies
Madras Literary Society Library
Dictionaries and Encyclopedias--India
- Digital BhagwadgomandalRatilal Chandaria's Gujaratilexicon Team has digitized Bhagwadgomandal and created its digital avatar.
- Digital Dictionaries of South AsiaOngoing project from the Digital South Asia Library. Languages include Assamese, Baluchi, Bengali, Divehi, Dogri, English (Hobson-Jobson), Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Khowar, Konkani, Lushai, Maithili, Malayalam, Manipuri, Marathi, Nepali, Newari, Pali, Panjabi, Pashto, Oriya, Pali, Panjabi, Pashto, Persian, Prakrit, Rajasthani, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Sinhala, Tamil, Telugu, Torwali, and Urdu. Also includes two comparative (Indo-European and Dravidian) dictionaries.
- Encyclopedia of Indian PhilosophiesBibliography of the philosophical literature of India during its classical phase, and the secondary material on this literature that is available (for the most part) in English. Online version of Karl Potter's book compilation.
- Europa world plus This link opens in a new windowEconomic, political, historical, and geographic profiles of 250+ countries and global regions. Contact information for political, business, media, and cultural agencies and officials, including 1,900 international organizations. Search or browse by country, region, organization, or people.
Reference Guides--India
- Archivportal Deutsche Digitale BibliothekDigital archival material and information on digital facilities from all over Germany
- Digital South Asia Library This link opens in a new windowThe Digital South Asia Library, a project of the Center for Research Libraries, is a global collaborative effort to make important and rare South Asian resources available to the international community. Includes: reference resources, bibliographies and union lists, indexes, books and journals, statistics, image collections, maps and catalogs of maps.
- French books on India: an open access multilingual discovery tool with book data from 1531 to 2016 and ebooks before 1939The site covers books from 1531 to 2015, with full-text copies of hundreds of titles that appeared before 1939 and short critical summaries of the most important items written by international experts. The books published after 1954 included here, all relate back to the period before that year, including to the 267-year period between 1668 and 1954 when the French nation had a trading presence in India. Presenting them in chronological order, this site shows books in history and fascinating recurring tropes in French-language representations of India.
- Indology : Resources for Indological ScholarshipAn adjunct to the INDOLOGY online discussion forum for Classical South Asian studies. The forum was founded in 1990 by Dominik Wujastyk as a medium for exchange and debate by university-level research scholars. Includes archives search back to 1990.
- Library of Congress (online search)Online materials on South Asia topics available at the Library of Congress. This link is to a keyword search for "South Asia." To locate many other materials, try other Asia region-specific keyword searches for online materials.
- New catalogus catalogorum : an alphabetical register of Sanskrit and allied works and authorsUniversity of Madras. Sanskrit Department
Based on Theodor Aufrecht's Catalogus catalogorum.
South Asian Studies Reading Room (601 Butler) Z6605.S3 U54 1949 - Perso-Indica : an analytical survey of Persian works on Indian learned traditionsEncompassing the treatises and translations produced in India between the 13th and the 19th century.
- Public Library of IndiaCollection containing resources relevant to India. The former Digital Library of India site was the source of many of these 312,986 text items.
South Asia Reference Guides
For a list of multiregional bibliographic reference resources on South Asian Studies, see this Bibliographic Reference Guides Multiregional guide.