About
particular topics...
==ALEXANDER
THE GREAT==
His world-conquering journey ended along the Indus: [site]
==ALPHABETS OF
SOUTH
ASIA== The personal website of Eden Golshani, who must be one
remarkable
eighteen-year-old: [site]
=="BANDIT
QUEEN"== The
life and death of the (in)famous Phoolan Devi: [site]
==BRITISH== The
Imperial
Gazetteer of India. W. W. Hunter, J. S. Cotton, R. Burn,
and
W. S. Meyer, eds. New edition, published under the authority of His
Majesty's
secretary of state for India in council. Oxford, Clarendon Press,
1908-1931
[v. 1, 1909]: [site].
Particularly helpful are Vol. 1 [site]
and Vol. 2 [site],
with their extensive overview essays on many basic topics.
==BRITISH==
"British
Voices from South Asia"-- an archive of oral histories: [site]
==BUDDHISM==
The Huntington Archive of Buddhist and Related Art-- a collection with
great variety and depth: [site]
==CALENDARS== "India
Through
its Calendars," a lively and informative overview by Amartya
Sen:
[site]
==CENSUS INDIA
1871
on== Lots of interesting material: [site]
==CENSUS INDIA
NOW ==
The latest, from an Indian government website: [site]
==CHILD LABOR==
An informative overview article: [site];
and a recent example: [site]
==CHILD LABOR IN
PAKISTAN==
An Atlantic article, 1996, on how bad the problem is: [site]
==CLOTHING==
A women's artisan cooperative in Bombay makes jackets that I love, and
many other items that you might love too: [site]
==COINS OF INDIA
AND
CENTRAL ASIA== A good site for comparisons: [site]
==COINS OF SOUTH
ASIA==
A good, sophisticated research site [site];
and
the excellent "Virtual Museum of Indian Coins" : [site]
==COLONIALISM
BEGINS==
Robert Kerr, ed. General History and Collection of Voyages and
Travels,
Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the
Origin
and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land,
from
the Earliest Ages to the Present Time (1811): [on
this site]
==COWS, SACRED==
Historian D. N. Jha presents evidence of cow-sacrifice and beef-eating
in ancient India: [site]
==DALITS==
"Broken
People: Caste Violence Against India's Untouchables" [site],
a
Human Rights Watch report, March 1999
==DALITS==
The
most comprehensive single site I've found: [site]
==DALITS==
"Untouchable." National
Geographic, June 2003: [site]
==DALITS==
A
special issue of Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the
Middle East, 18,1 (1998): [site]
==DIASPORA==
On the South Asian diaspora in the United States: [site]
==DIASPORA==
An overview issue on the subject, with many thoughtful opinions: Seminar
538,
June 2004: [site]
==EDUCATION==
An overview page of recent articles from Outlook India: [site]
==ELECTIONS== Phil
Oldenburg
of the Southern Asian Institute at Columbia University
presents
some of his slides of recent South Asian election scenes, with
commentary
and other useful information: [site]
==EMERGENCY== "Emergency
Special"
(1975), from the Indian Express: [site]
==EMOTIONS== Owen
M.
Lynch, Divine Passions: The Social Construction of Emotion in
India
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990): [site]
==FABRICS==
A
resource page on fabrics, textile designs, block-printing, etc.: [site]
==FILMS==
Philip
Lutgendorf's delightful and increasingly comprehensive website on
popular
Hindi films: [site]
==FILMS==
"Bollywhat.com,"
an overview site devoted to Bollywood film culture, maintained by
Meredith
McGuire: [site]
==GAY RIGHTS==
An unexpected perspective on being gay in Pakistan: [site]
==GLOBALISM==Some
intelligent
thoughts on the cultural, political, and human-rights
aspects
of globalism from Amartya Sen: [site]
==GODDESSES==
"Devi, the Great Goddess," a wide-ranging, beautifully organized
exhibit
sponsored by the Sackler Museum: [site]
==GODDESSES==
"A Superhit Goddess: Jai Santoshi Maa and Caste Hierarchy in
Indian
Films," by Philip Lutgendorf: [on
this
site]
==HINDU-MUSLIM
CONFLICT==PBS
presents a show, "Soul of India," about the Bajrang Dal and violence in
Gujarat; click on show title for more resources: [site]
==HINDU-MUSLIM
RELATIONS==
Many useful links on another page of this
site.
==HUMAN RIGHTS==
The UN Declaration of Human Rights, a special analytical website by
CCNMTL,
at Columbia University: [site]
==HUMAN RIGHTS==
Links to relevant sites for all the countries of South Asia from the
Univ.
of California Library: [site];
and from Derechos: [site]
==HUMAN RIGHTS==
Alliance for a Secular and Democratic South Asia-- a useful research
site
full of links to good material: [site]
==INDEPENDENCE
MOVEMENT==
Interviews with Princess Abida Sultan of Bhopal (d.2002), who knew
everybody
and remembered a lot: [site]
==INDEPENDENCE
MOVEMENT==
Historical film clips of Gandhi and others, and much much more: [site]
==INDIA IN 1904==Modern
India (1904), a travel-guide overview by an American, William
Eleroy
Curtis: [site]
==INDIA AT 50== Frontline
14,16 (Aug. 9-22, 1997): India Independent-- 50 Years. A
special
issue full of very significant articles: [site]
==INDIA
OVERVIEW==
"We're all Indians Now," by Siddhartha Deb, The Observer, Nov.
26,
2006: [site]
=="THE INDIAN
OCEAN:
CRADLE OF GLOBALIZATION== A lovely study site for teachers and
students:
[site]
== "INDIA'S
BANDIT QUEEN"==
On the criminal career of Phoolan Devi: [site];
and on her Parliamentary career: [site]
==INDIRA
GANDHI'S ASSASSINATION
and its aftermath== "The Winter in Delhi, 1984," by Aseem
Shrivastava:
[site]
==INDUS VALLEY
CIVILIZATION==
The Harappa website, as good as it gets-- superb on the Indus Valley
Civilization,
early photos, and much more: [site]
==INDUS VALLEY
CIVILIZATION==
The famous "Horseplay in Harappa" controversy, exposing fraudulent
Hindutva
claims about the Indus Valley civilization: [site]
==INDUS VALLEY
CIVILIZATION==
An overview of the "Hindutva" approach, with many useful cross-cultural
parallels (in PDF format): [site];
or [on this site]
==JAINISM==
"Jain
History-- an Outline": [site]
==JOURNALISM== SAJA,
the
South Asian Journalists' Association, maintains an extensive,
wide-ranging,
and very helpful set of links: [site
]
==JOURNALS== Himal,
a
magazine that takes an intelligent interest in all the countries of
South
Asia: [site]
==JOURNALS== Manushi,
(Delhi)
an indispensable "journal about women and society": [site]
==KRISHNA==
An
interactive exploration of his life from the Seattle Art Museum: [site]
==LANGUAGES==
An overview of the "Languages and Scripts of India": [site]
==LANGUAGES==
The Proto-Indo-European language site, with much information and many
fascinating
illustrations: [site]
==MUGHAL EMPIRE==
A somewhat gimmicky but interesting new site by the British Library: [site];
it
will be fun for students to play with
==NGO
information==
"Pro-poor.org," the most comprehensive source, and documentation
center,
on the work of South Asian NGO's: [site]
==NGO
information==
"Social Movements in South Asia," a site maintained by the U.C.
Berkeley
library: [site]
==NUMBERS==
"The
Hindu-Arabic Numerals," a description of our own numbering system: [site]
==OVERVIEW==
"MANAS," a general historical/cultural overview site: [site]
==OVERVIEW==
An intricate, idiosyncratic website of great diversity and mixed
quality,
"Kamat's Potpourri": [site]
==PEACE AND
SECULARISM==
"South Asia Citizens Web, helping people connect across borders and
work
for social justice" [site]
==PEACE AND
SECULARISM==
"Alliance for a Secular and Democratic South Asia" [site]
==PEACE AND
SECULARISM==
"Eqbal Ahmad." Many articles by him, including a tribute by Noam
Chomsky
to him as a "secular Sufi": [site]
=="PEASANTS AND
MONKS"==
William R. Pinch, Peasants and Monks in British India
(Berkeley:
University of California Press, 1996). An unusual and fascinating
perspective
on colonial social history: [site]
==PHOTOS==
A
collection of fine, well-organized 19th-century photos, and much else
as
well, at Harappa: [site]
==PHOTOS==
Many
wonderful photos by the first well-known Indian photographer, Lala Deen
Dayal (1844-1905): [site]
==PHOTO TOUR==
A well-captioned album of photos taken by Prof. Paul Brians and friends
in a number of Indian cities in 1992: [site]
==PLATE
TECTONICS==
A wonderful site on plate tectonics, showing graphically how the South
Asian plate travelled north and the Himalayas were formed in a huge
collision:
[site]
==REBELLION OF
1857==
Much material *on
this site*
==RELIGIONS:
CENSUS
DATA== Numerical data on Indian religions, from the census of
2000:
[site]
==RELIGIOUS
FREEDOM==
The State Department's "International Religious Freedom Report" for the
countries of South Asia, December 2003: [site]
==RELIGIOUS SITE
VISITS==
Short videos of visits to important South Asian shrines, from Emory
Univ.:
[site]
==RITUALS==
"Cooking
for the Gods: the Art of Home Ritual in Bengal": [site]
==ROCK ART==
Many lovely examples of prehistoric rock art from all over South Asia:
[site]
==RULERS==
Worldwide
listings of names and dates of rulers, from 1700 onwards: [site]
==SARIS== Such
gorgeous
garments-- here's some information about them: [site]
==SHIVAJI==
Wry
commentary
on modern exploitation of his name, by Dilip Chitre: [on
this site]
==TANTRA==
A
very comprehensive and scholarly website: [site]
==TEMPLES== A
scholarly
look at the Hindu and Buddhist temples of the Salt Range
Mountains
in Pakistan, dating from the 6th to the early 11th centuries: [site]
==TEMPLES== "Templenet,"
an
encyclopedia of Hindu temples: [site]
==TIMELINES== A
neat
meta-historical timeline: [site]
==TIMELINES== A
very
convenient series of timelines at the Met, starting in 8000 BCE: [site]
==TIPU SULTAN==
"The Tiger and the Thistle: Tipu Sultan and the Scots in India," a
wonderful
site by the National Galleries of Scotland: [site]
==TRADE AND
ENVIRONMENT== A
series of well-documented analytical case studies, including many South
Asian ones: [site]
==TRIBES==
Christoph
von Fürer-Haimendorf, Tribes of India: The Struggle for
Survival (Berkeley:
University of California Press, 1982): [site]
==VEDAS==
A site
describing an elaborate "Vedic sacrifice" performed in 2003: [site]
==VEDAS==
For
a variety of scholarly materials, see the "Electronic Journal of Vedic
Studies" archives: [site]
==VILLAGE LIFE==
"A Virtual Village," an excellent website by Peter Gottschalk of
Wesleyan
University and Matthew Schmalz of Holy Cross, with much input from real
North Indian villagers, both Hindu and Muslim: [site]
==WOMEN'S
ISSUES==
South Asia Women's Network, the best overview: [site]
==WOMEN'S
ISSUES==
The excellent Manushi, "a journal about women and society": [site];
and its archives: [site]
==YOGA==
A classic
text of hatha yoga (the kind most popular in the West) with illustrated
English translation: [site]
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