South Asia Archive

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    South Asia Archive is a fully searchable digital archive of materials relating to South Asia, providing online access to documents ranging from the mid-18th to the mid-20th Century. The interdisciplinary collection (covering culture & society, industry & economy, science, technology & medicine, politics & law, and other subjects) includes reports, rare books, and journal runs sourced from collectors and archivists in India by the South Asia Research Foundation.
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    South Asia Archive (http://www.southasiaarchive.com/) is a fully-searchable digital archive of materials relating to South Asia, providing online access to documents ranging from the mid-18th to the mid-20th Century. According to the publisher, the archive makes accessible 4.5 million pages of research material across a wide range of disciplines. 

    With content selected from the collection of the South Asia Research Foundation (SARF), the South Asia Archive represents a diverse collection of materials relating to South Asian culture and society; politics and government; industry and urban planning; science, technology & medicine; and other subjects. According to the publisher's website, the collection includes complete runs (where possible) of more than 200 journals in a range of subjects; books and series; reports and government publications; and a collection of Indian film booklets produced 1930–1949. Content is primarily in English, though as much as thirty percent of the content may include vernacular languages, particularly Bengali and Sanskrit. 

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    CHOICE January 2014, vol. 51  no. 05

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