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South Asian Studies

Resources to help you in researching topics within South Asian studies.

Primary Sources

 

This page provides links to some online primary source materials on South Asia. Primary sources are original documented evidence from a given historical period, such as official correspondence, government publications, diaries, images and photographs, drawings, letters, books, films, posters, play scripts, speeches, songs, sheet music, and first-person accounts. 

 

Bhagat Singh Internet Archive a small collection of documents pertaining to Bhagat Singh (1907-1931)

Echoes of freedom: South Asian pioneers in California, 1899-1965

Imperial Gazetteer of India (1908-1931)

Medical History of Brirish India  official full text documents realting to the medical history of India in the 19th and 20th centuries.

South Asian Migration Histories

Mutiny at the Margins: the Indian upsrising of 1857

Statistical Abstract Relating to British India (1840-1920)

Women in World History -- Primary Sources on South Asia