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"

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.