Caste in South Asia: A Gateway to Internet Resources

URL: http://www.hawaii.edu/csas/caste_index.html

"The UHM Center for South Asian Studies has accordingly developed this small project to introduce junior and non-specialist members of the UH and broader research community to the notion of 'caste' as a critical and contested concept. We hope these preliminary resources will prove useful to those who want to take caste into the classroom.

The resources provided fall into three categories:

Internet Resources
Recent Scholarly Perspectives on Caste
Sample Passages from Primary Texts"

Afghanistan Digital Library

URL: http://afghanistandl.nyu.edu

"The immediate objective of the Afghanistan Digital Library is to retrieve and restore the first sixty years of Afghanistan’s published cultural heritage. The project is collecting, cataloging, digitizing, and making available over the Internet as many Afghan publications from the period 1871–1930 as it is possible to identify and locate. In addition to books, this will eventually include all published serials, documents, pamphlets, and manuals. Phase 1 of the project, undertaken in 2005, has drawn materials from the collections of several private collectors as well as from the holdings of New York University Library and the British Library. Phase 2, undertaken in 2006, has trained a staff at the National Archives in Kabul in conservation and digitization and is engaged in the cataloging and digitization of materials held in various public and private collections inside Afghanistan. In time the project plans to carry the dissemination of Afghan publications through the period between 1931 and 1950. Providing universal availability to this broad historical span of Afghanistan’s published history, and in the process constructing a national bibliography for the country, the Afghanistan Digital Library will reconstruct an essential part of Afghanistan’s cultural heritage."

Soviet Archives at Info-Russ

URL: http://psi.ece.jhu.edu/~kaplan/IRUSS/BUK/GBARC/buk.html

"Ideology and Politics of Soviet Communist Party (KPSS); Ideology and Propaganda; Media: newspapers, radio, TV; Cultural events, science, economy; Internal Affairs; KPSS and Terror in the USSR; Prior to 1975; 1975 - 1991; Suppression of Dissisdents; 1960-1969; 1970-1979; after 1980; Sakharov; Solzhenitsyn; Use of Psychiatry for Political Purpose; Perestroika; KPSS and Communist World; KPSS and Non-Communist World; Communist Terror in the World; Europe, North America; Asia; Africa; Central and South America; KPSS and Peace Propaganda; Some Aspects of Soviet International Politics; USA; Soviet invasion of Afghanistan; Poland; Olympic Games, 1980; Chronological List of All Documents with section cross-references (in Russian)"

Documents Related to Jammu and Kashmir

URL: http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/sasia.htm

"English translation of the Persian text of the treaty signed at Leh on second of Asuj 1899 Bikrami - September 1842 - between the Government of Maharajah Gulab Singh and the Government of Tibet

Treaty of Amritsar, March 16, 1846

Excerpts of telegram dated 26 October, 1947 from Jawaharlal Nehru to the British Prime Minister, Clement Attlee.

Text of Lord Mountbatten 's letter dated 27 October, 1947 to signify his acceptance of the Instrument of Accession signed by the Kashmir Maharaja.

Letter from Maharaja Hari Singh to Lord Mountbatten in 1947

The National Archives: The Road to Partition 1939-47

URL: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/topics/the-road-to-partition.htm

"The end of the British Empire in India in August 1947 resulted in the creation of two separate states of India and Pakistan. The division was based on religious lines, a Muslim majority in Pakistan and a Hindu majority in India. Pakistan itself was split into two parts in the east (East Bengal, which became Bangladesh in 1971) and in the west (western Punjab). This event was to result in the biggest mass migration in history. Over 18 million people migrated to join their particular religious majority. At least a million people died in communal violence in the process.

1947 Partition Archive: An Indus Heritage Project

URL: http://www.1947partitionarchive.org

"The 1947 Partition Archive is a grassroots, volunteer run effort to document and preserve eye witness accounts from the partition of British India into present day India, Pakistan and Bangladesh in 1947.

We are proactively seeking and collecting video testimonies and extensive surveys of eye witness accounts related to the events of 1947. We are also collecting written testimonies from relatives and/or friends of survivors who are no longer with us.

SARAI: South Asia Resource Access on the Internet

URL: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/southasia/cuvl/

"E-Journals
E-News
E-Books
E-Images (Online Image Archives)
e-Text Collections
Culture of South Asia - Past and Present
The South Asian Diaspora (U.C. Berkeley)
Maps & Geography
Government and Politics
Health Information

Digital South Asia Library

URL: http://dsal.uchicago.edu

"The Digital South Asia Library provides digital materials for reference and research on South Asia to scholars, public officials, business leaders, and other users.

Reference Resources: Scholarly reference books and a link to full text dictionaries at Digital Dictionaries of South Asia (DDSA).

Bibliographies and Union Lists: Electronic catalogs and finding aids for dispersed resources and collections.

Images: Photographs are arranged in databases organized by the original collections.

Indexes: Includes periodical indexes and document delivery mechanisms.

Internet Women's History Sourcebook

URL: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/women/womensbook.html

"How are historians to remedy the silence about women in many traditional accounts of history? This question has received a number of distinct answers.

The first solution was to locate the great women of the past, following the lead of much popular historiography that focuses on "great men". The problem here is that just as the "great men" approach to history sidelines and ignores the lives of the mass of people, focusing on great women merely replicates the exclusionary historical approaches of the past.

The next solution was to examine and expose the history of oppression of women. This approach had the merit of addressing the life histories of the mass of women, but, since it has proved to be possible to find some degree of oppression everywhere, it tended to make women merely subjects of forces that they could not control. On the other hand, historians' focus on oppression revealed that investigating the structures of women's lives was crucial.