South Asia

See also:

South Asia subject guide

All users on-campus; SOAS students and staff only off-campus

• Cambridge Histories Online
  Includes The New Cambridge History of India
  On campus use / Off campus use
• Times of India digital archive (1838-2003)
  Search and browse content in this major newspaper from mid-19th century to the early 21st century to see reportage and comment on major events in the sub-continent’s history
  On campus use / Off campus use

Web Resources

• Centre for South Asian Studies: film collection (University of Cambridge)
  Collection of mainly amateur films made in India and Pakistan from the 1920s to the 1940s
• Centre for South Asian Studies: audio collection
  Digital recordings of interviews complementing the Centre’s film collection. Mainly in English, with some content in Hindi, Urdu etc.
• Colonial Film: moving images of the British Empire
  Bibliographic archive of over 6,000 films dating from the 19 ^th to mid-20 ^th centuries. 150 are available to view online
• Indian History Sourcebook
  A wide range of freely available online resources available through the Internet History Sourcebooks Project (Fordham University, New York)
• Medical history of British India
  From the National Library of Scotland’s India Papers series – 44 documents on public health measures and disease prevention dating from 1868 to 1920