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HIST 1161 - India Before Europe

Primary Sources

South Asia Open Archives (JSTOR)
SAOA is the product of a collaborative initiative of a broad consortium of 26 current member research libraries in South Asia and around the world.

Gale Primary Sources This link opens in a new window
Newspapers, books, manuscripts, maps, and photographs. Simultaneously search: 17th-18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers, 19th Century U.S. Newspapers, Sunday Times (London), Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO), Making of the Modern World, Times Literary Supplement, and Times Digital Archive, Financial Times (London).

British Library Resources for the Study of South Asia
National Archives of India
Also here: https://www.abhilekh-patal.in/jspui/
National Manuscript Mission

HathiTrust This link opens in a new window
Digitized collections of some of the nation’s great research libraries, established in this repository to archive and share their digital content.
Access Note: VU is a partner institution. Login is required for downloading. Vendor Tutorials: http://researchguides.library.vanderbilt.edu/HathiTrust

Historical Atlas of South Asia
Source: University of Chicago Digital South Asia Library.
Perry-Castañeda Library Historical Map Collection
Collection of historical maps for Asia and the world from the University of Texas.

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