South Asia
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All users on-campus; SOAS students and staff only off-campus
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Cambridge Histories Online
Includes The New Cambridge History of India
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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
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Web Resources
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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