2705, 2014

The intellectual and religious traditions of South Asia revealed in Cambridge University’s Sanskrit manuscripts Project

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|May 27, 2014|History, Literature, Religions, South Asia|0 comments

In late 2011 Cambridge University Library began its AHRC funded project to survey, catalogue and digitize its collection of Sanskrit manuscripts. Since then 1500 manuscripts have been catalogued, including 150 in great detail (most of which are illuminated). Significant items in the collection have been digitized and are available via the University’s digital library. Amongst the manuscripts are rare items on a wide range of subjects including, religion, philosophy, grammar,

2005, 2014

War and Colonies – rare photos available online

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|May 20, 2014|History, South Asia|0 comments

Image courtesy of War and Colonies 1914-1918 Project In February this year the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh was the host for a conference and exhibition organized by the Alliance Française de Dhaka focusing on War and Colonies 1914-1918. The exhibition which showed 35 rare photographs of colonial troops in the Great War, (from the collections of the French Ministry of Defence and the German Historical Museum), is now available to

1305, 2014

South Asia – April 2014

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|May 13, 2014|South Asia|0 comments

E-Books South Asian Feminisms / Ania Loomba, & Ritty A. Lukose. Public administration in South Asia : India, Bangladesh, and Pakistan / edited by Meghna Sabharwal and Evan M. Berman. Books Reform and productivity growth in India : issues and trends in the labour markets / Dibyendu Maiti. Development and public health in the Himalaya / edited by Ian Harper. Participolis : consent and contention in neoliberal urban India /

1305, 2014

Over 2.5 million British India records digitized and searchable online

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|May 13, 2014|History, South Asia|0 comments

A partnership between the British Library and ‘Findmypast’ has made over 2.5 million family history records from the India Office Records accessible online. The digitized documents reveal a vast amount about the lives of the British in India from 1698 to 1947 including: careers and domestic life, the lives of women in India, records of baptisms, marriages, wills and burials and civil and military pensions. The indexes can be accessed

0605, 2014

Rabindranath Tagore goes online

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|May 6, 2014|South Asia|0 comments

The Ministry of Culture, Government of India has sponsored a new online variorum of the works of Rabindranath Tagore; a project undertaken by the School of Cultural Texts and Records, Jadavpur University, Calcutta. The website has digitized all of Tagore’s writings in both Bengali and English, whether manuscript or printed format and made them freely available online. The website can be navigated in English, Bengali and Hindi and includes a

2504, 2014

Twenty libraries in Delhi you’ve never visited

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|April 25, 2014|South Asia|0 comments

A recent post on the South Asia Archive and Library Group (SAALG) blog highlighted an article which will be of interest for anyone planning a research trip to Delhi. Daniel Majchrowicz, a PhD candidate at Harvard University, has reviewed twenty libraries in Delhi and provided information about opening times, location and collections as well as lots of helpful tips and links to websites (where possible). The review is published by

2304, 2014

South Asia – March 2014

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|April 23, 2014|South Asia|0 comments

e-books Conflict and Peacebuilding in Sri Lanka : Caught in the Peace Trap? / Goodhand, Jonathan, Spencer, Jonathan & Korf, Benedikt South Asia Across the Disciplines : Document Raj : Writing and Scribes in Early Colonial South India / Raman, Bhavani Islamic Civilization in South Asia : A History of Muslim Power and Presence in the Indian Subcontinent / Avari, Burjor Everyday ethnicity in Sri Lanka : up-country Tamil identity politics

0704, 2014

Journal back-files on open access, including Journal of the American Oriental Society

By Mary Fisk|April 7, 2014|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica, Art and Archaeology, China and Inner Asia, History, Linguistics, Literature, Middle East, Central Asia & Islamica, Religions, South Asia, South East Asia|0 comments

(via the AWOL blog) – http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.co.uk/ The prestigious Journal of the American Oriental Society has made its out-of-copyright material available on open-access. Content covers research by American scholars and Orientalists on the literatures and civilizations of the Near East, North Africa, South and Southeast Asia, Inner Asia, the Far East and the Islamic World. Open-access volumes cover Vol.1 (1843) to Vol. 42 (1922) Click here to go to Journal of the

2803, 2014

SOAS Blog about Indian Elections

By Victoria Bird|March 28, 2014|Politics and International Relations, South Asia|0 comments

The South Asia Institute has started a blog to share information, analysis and expertise of SOAS academics on the world’s biggest ever election. Follow what is going on here.

2403, 2014

Some recent reviews of new books in SOAS Library

By Mary Fisk|March 24, 2014|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica, Art and Archaeology, History, Middle East, Central Asia & Islamica, Religions, South Asia|0 comments

Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica QLB415 / 755495 – An introduction to Ugaritic / John Huehnergard (reviewed in Marginalia) QI221.12 / 743308 – The formation of the Jewish canon / Timothy H. Lim (reviewed in Marginalia) QB930 / 737342 – Predicting the past in the ancient Near East : mantic historiography in ancient Mesopotamia, Judah, and the Mediterranean world / by Matthew Neujahr (reviewed in Review of Biblical Literature) [ON ORDER] – Anti-Judaism :