For resources and library holdings relating to other areas of Asia (and Africa) see Asien-Afrika-Bibliothek (in German).

Index

• Agenda

• Holdings of the SUB Göttingen on South and Southeast Asian languages and cultures
  
  • Subject search for books relating to South and Southeast Asian languages and cultures (in German)
  • Manuscripts in South Asian languages (in German)
  • Rubbings of Indian inscriptions from the Franz Kielhorn bequest (in German)

• Guide to Electronic Information
  
  • Electronic Access Points
  • South Asia Research Institutions on the Internet
    
  • Search Engines
    
  • Online Bibliographies
  • Library Resources
    
  • Position Papers and Opinions
  • Electronic Texts
    
  • Electronic Journals and News
    
  • Discussion Groups
    
  • Languages
    
  • Scripts, Fonts, etc.
    
  • Geography etc.
    
  • Indian Religions
    
  • Philosophy
  • History
  • History of Asian / Indian Art
    
  • Internet Resources on Nepal
    
  • Internet Resources on Sri Lanka
    
  • Internet Resources on Tibet
    
  • Internet Resources on Central Asia
    
  • Internet Resources on Southeast Asia
    

Agenda

• Agenda Asia (IIAS Leiden via WWWVL Asian Studies)

  SARAI: Conferences and Events

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Electronic Access Points

• INDOLOGY-Homepage (see here for: Discussion Archive, e-texts, resources, etc.)
  After a closedown from April to June 2001, the INDOLOGY discussion list has now been reopened!
  For further information see below on discussion groups.
• SARAI: South Asia Resource Access on the Internet
• South & Southeast Asian Studies
• Asian Studies WWW VL
• Internet Resources for South Asian Studies
• South Asia Resources - University of Virginia Library
• Archive of Indological Resources Online (G. Bühnemann)
• South Asia Links (Timothy Lubin)
• Jambudvipa - Indology and Sanskrit Studies
• Links to Sanskrit Resources (Gérard Huet)
• Project South Asia
• India Virtual Library
• UC Berkeley Library: Electronic Resources South Asia
• Portal to Asian Internet Resources (PAIR)
• Asian Studies Network Information Center, UT Austin
• Webgrafia indo-tibetica, La Sapienza Orientale (Roma)
• Gateway to India (P. Arumugam, Univ. Giessen)
• Indology (Russian Server; in English)

• General Information Service Terminal National Informatics Centre (GISTNIC, Govt. of India)

• AsiaSource
• Indiatimes

• Webdunia: WWW-portals in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam

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South Asia Research Institutions on the Internet

Australia | Austria | Bangladesh | Belgium | Bulgaria | Canada | China (PR) | Czechia | Denmark | Finland | France | Germany | Great Britain | India | Israel | Italy | Japan | Mexico | Nepal | Netherlands | New Zealand | Norway | Pakistan | Poland | Russia | Scandinavia (NIAS) | Singapore | Sweden | Switzerland | Thailand | U.S.A.

Organisations | Directories

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Australia

• Australian National University:
  • Faculty of Asian Studies: South Asia Centre
  • Research School of Asian and Pacific Studies
• La Trobe University: Asian Studies
• Monash University: Monash Asia Institute
• Univ. of Queensland: Centre for Buddhist Studies
• Univ. of Sydney:
  • Dept. of Asian Studies:
    • Indian Subcontinental Studies
    • South East Asian Studies
  • Dept. of Studies in Religion

• Vienna Univ.:
  • Institut für Indologie
  • Institut für Südasien-, Tibet- & Buddhismuskunde
• Austrian Academy of Sciences:
  Institute for Asian Studies
  Projects: Index | Individual projects:
  
  Tantrikabhidhanakosa

For general information on universities in Bangladesh see
Google Web Directory - Reference > Education > Colleges and Universities > Asia > Bangladesh

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Belgium

• Ghent University: Department of Languages and Cultures of South And East Asia

• Univ. Sofia: Center for Eastern Languages and Cultures

• Univ. of British Columbia: Centre for India and South Asia Research (CISAR)
• Univ. of Calgary: Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute
• Univ. of Manitoba: Asian Studies Center
• Univ. of Ontario: South Asian Studies (SAS) portal
• Univ. of Saskatchewan: Dept. of Religious Studies
• Univ. of Toronto: Sanskrit

• Univ. Peking: Research Institute of Sanskrit Manuscripts and Buddhist Literatur

• Prague, Charles University: Institute of Indian Studies
  • Pandanus

• University of Copenhagen:
  • Indologi
  • Tibetologi

• Åbo Akademi: Dept. of Comparative Religion
• Univ. Helsinki: South Asian Studies

• Univ. de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris III:
  • Licence Etudes indiennes (sanskrit)
  • Mondes iranien et indien
• Univ. Lille 3: UFR Langues et Cultures Antiques
• Univ. de Provence, Aix-Marseille 1: Département des Sciences de l'Antiquité
  
• Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient
• Association française pour les Études Indiennes
• Centre de Sciences Humaines, New Delhi
  
  
• Centre d'Études de l'Inde et de l'Asie du sud
• Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO)
• France in India

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Germany

• Berlin, Freie Universität:
  • Institut für Sprachen und Kulturen Südasiens
    • Indoskript (in cooperation with Halle University, Indological Seminar)
  • Kunsthistorisches Institut: Abteilung Kunstgeschichte Südasiens
• Berlin, Humboldt-Universität:
  • Institut für Asien- und Afrikawissenschaften:
    • Seminar für Südasien-Studien
    • Seminar für Südostasien-Studien
    • Zentralasien-Seminar
• Berlin, Staatsbibliothek:
  • Oriental Department
  • Union Catalogue of Oriental Manuscripts in German Collections (KOHD)
• Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften:
  • Turfanforschung
    • Digitales Turfan-Archiv
• Bochum, Univ.:
  • Seminar für Orientalistik und Indologie
• Bonn, Univ.:
  • Indologisches Seminar
  • Seminar für Orientalische Kunstgeschichte
• Freiburg, Univ.:
  • Orientalisches Seminar / Indologie
• Göttingen, Univ.:
  • Seminar für Indologie u. Tibetologie
  • Centre for Modern Indian Studies (CeMIS)
• Göttingen, Akademie der Wissenschaften:
  • Union Catalogue of Oriental Manuscripts in German Collections (KOHD)
  • Sanskrit Dictionary of Buddhist Texts Found in Turfan
• Halle, Univ.:
  • Seminar für Indologie (Inst. f. Altertumswiss.) (Indoskript see FU Berlin)
    • The Moksopaya Project
    • Buddhistische Rechtsgeschichte
  • Südasieninstitut (Orientalisches Inst.)
  • Institut für Orientalische Archäologie und Kunst
• Hamburg, Univ.:
  • Institut für Kultur und Geschichte Indiens und Tibets
    • Nepal-German Manuscript Cataloguing Project (NGCPP)
    • Nepal Research Centre (NRC, Kathmandu)
    • Centre for Tantric Studies
    
    
  • Institut für Asienkunde (IFA)
• Heidelberg, Univ.:
  • South Asia Institute
    
    • Dept. of Classical Indology
    • Dept. of Modern Indology
    • Dept. of History (in German)
    • Dept. of Political Science
    • Dept. of Ethnology (in German)
    • Dept. of Geography
    • Dept. of Development Economics (in German)
    • Dept. of International Economics
• Heidelberg, Akademie der Wissenschaften:
  • Felsbilder und Inschriften am Karakorum-Highway
• Kiel, Univ.:
  • Seminar für Orientalistik, Abt. Indologie
  • Lehrstuhl für Asiatische Geschichte
    • Orissa Research Programme (ORP)
• Köln, Univ.:
  • Institut für Indologie und Tamilistik
• Leipzig, Univ.:
  • Institut für Indologie und Zentralasienwissenschaften
• Mainz, Univ.:
  • Institut für Indologie
• Marburg, Univ.:
  • Fachgebiet für Indologie und Tibetologie
• München, Univ.:
  • Institut für Indologie und Iranistik
• München, Bayer. Akademie der Wissenschaften:
  • Kommission für zentral- und ostasiatische Studien
• Münster, Univ.:
  • Institut für Indologie
• Tübingen, Univ.:
  • Seminar für Indologie und vergleichende Religionswissenschaft
• Würzburg, Univ.:
  • Institut für Indologie

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Great Britain

• University of Bristol:
  • Centre for Buddhist Studies
• University of Cambridge:
  • Centre of South Asian Studies
• University of Edinburgh:
  • Asian Studies: Sanskrit
  • Centre for South Asian Studies Scotland
  • Dept. of History: South Asian Studies
• University of London: School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)
• Univ. of Oxford:
  • Faculty of Oriental Studies: South and Inner Asia
  • Contemporary South Asian Studies
  • St. Antony's College: Asian Studies Centre

For general information on Indian universities see
"University Institutions in India" (Roy Mathew, Trivandrum), Information and Research (WWWVL) and Education and Research Network India (ERNET): Websites.

Indological directory: List of Sanskrit and Indological Research Institutes in India (without links)

• Banaras Hindu University
• Bangalore University:
  • Dept. of Hindi
  • Dept. of Kannada
  • Dept. of Telugu
  • Dept. of Urdu
• Baroda: The Maharaja Sayajirao University:
  • Oriental Institute
  • Sanskrit Mahavidyalaya
• Delhi: Jawaharlal Nehru University: Centre of Indian Languages
• Kerala University
• Madras: Institute of Asian Studies
• University of Madras | Departments:
  School of Sanskrit and Other Indian Languages
  • Sanskrit
  • Hindi
  • Arabic, Persian, Urdu
    
  • Centre for South and Southeast Asian Studies
  School of Tamil and Other Dravidian Languages
  • Tamil Language
  • Tamil Literature
  • Telugu
  • Kannada
  • Malayalam
  School of Philosophy and Religious Thought
  • Saiva Siddhanta
  • Vaishnavism
  • Jainology
  • Islamic Studies
  School of Historical Sciences
  • Dept. of Ancient History and Archaeology
  • Dept. of Indian History
  School of Fine and Performing Arts
  • Indian Music
• Melkote: Academy of Sanskrit Research
• Mumbai Univ.:
  • Faculty of Arts: Language, Linguistic and Literature Departments
    • Dept. of Sanskrit
    • Dept. of Marathi
    • Dept. of Gujarathi
    • Dept. of Hindi
    • Dept. of Urdu
    • Dept. of Sindhi
    • Dept. of Kannada
• Univ. of Mysore:
  • Dept. of Sanskrit
  • Dept. of Kannada
  • Dept. of Archaeology
  • Dept. of History
  • Dept. of Hindi
  • Dept. of Studies in Jainology and Prakrit
  • Department of Urdu
• Pondicherry: Institut Français de Ponchicherry (IFP)
• Univ. of Pune:
  • Centre of Advanced Study in Sanskrit
  • Dept. of Sanskrit and Prakrit Languages

• Central Institute of Indian Languages
• Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts
  
• Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan
• The Vipassana Research Institute, Igatpuri, Maharashtra.

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Israel

• Hebrew Univ., Jerusalem: Institute of Asian & African Studies
• Tel Aviv Univ.: East Asian Studies Department

• Istituto Italiano per l'Africa e l'Oriente (ISIAO, formerly ISMEO)

• Università degli studi di Bologna: Dip. Studi Linguistici e Orientali
• Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza": Facoltà di Studi Orientali
• Università degli Studi di Torino: CESMEO Instituto Internazionale di Studi Asiatica Avanzati
• Università Ca' Foscari di Venezia: Dipartimento di Studi sull'Asia Orientale

• Kyoto Univ.: Dept. of Indological Studies
• Tokyo University: Institute for the Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa

Mexico

• Centro de estudios de Asia y África, Colegio de México

• Nepal Research Centre (NRC, Kathmandu)
• Tribhuvan University
  
• Asha Saphu Kuthi (ASK, = Asha Archives), Kathmandu

• Univ. Amsterdam: Asia Studies in Amsterdam
• Univ. Groningen: Instituut voor Indische Talen en Culturen
• Univ. Leiden:
  • Instituut Kern (TCZCA) (Dept. of Indian and Tibetan Studies)
  • School of Asian, African, and Amerindian Studies (CNWS)
  • International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS)

• Univ. of Canterbury, Christchurch: Religious Studies
• Univ. of Otago: Religious Studies
• Victoria University, Wellington: Religious Studies

• Univ. Oslo
  • South Asian Studies
  • Dept. of History
  • Norwegian Forum for South Asia

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Pakistan

For general information on universities in Pakistans see
Pakistanpage > Colleges, Universities and Research Institutions

• Univ. Kraków: Instytut Filologii Orientalnej
• Univ. Poznan: Pracownia Azji Południowej
• Warsaw University: Institute of Oriental Studies

• EurAsian Orientalist Server

• SASNET (Swedish South Asian Studies Network): Institutions in Sweden
• Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (NIAS)

• National University Singapore:
  • South Asian Studies Programme

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Sweden

• SASNET (Swedish South Asian Studies Network): Institutions in Sweden
• Univ. Stockholm: Indology
• Uppsala Univ.: Indology

• Univ. Bern: Inst. für Religionswissenschaft
• Univ. Lausanne:
  • Section des langues et civilisations orientales (SLCO)
  • Departement Interfacultaire d'Histoire et de Sciences des Religions (DIHSR)
• Univ. Zürich: Indogermanisches Seminar, Abt. Indologie

• Mahidol Univ.: International PhD Programme in Buddhist Studies
• Silpakorn University: Sanskrit Studies Centre
• Thammasat University: India Studies Centre

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U.S.A.
(see also Asian American Net: Asian and Asian American Studies Schools

• American Institute of Indian Studies
• American Institute of Pakistan Studies

• Univ. of Alabama: Critical Languages Center
• Arizona State University: Center for Asian Studies
• Univ. of California,
  • Berkeley:
    • South and Southeast Asian Studies
    • Center for South Asia Studies
    • Buddhist Research Center (BBRC)
  • Irvine:
    • Center for Asian Studies
  • Los Angeles (UCLA):
    • South & South East Asian Languages & Cultures
    • Graduate Programme in South & Southeast Asian History
    • South Asian Studies Minor Programme
    • South Asian Studies Task Force Homepage
• Univ. Chicago:
  • Dept. of South Asian Languages and Civilizations
  • South Asia Language and Area Center
• Univ. of Colorado at Boulder:
  • Center for Asian Studies
• Columbia Univ., NY:
  • Southern Asian Institute
  • Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures
• Cornell Univ.: South Asia Program
• Duke University: South Asian Studies
• Emory University: South Asian Studies
• Florida State University: Asian Studies Program
• Univ. of Florida: Center for the Study of Hindu Traditions
• Harvard Univ.:
  • Sanskrit Dept.
  • Inner Asian and Altaic Studies
• Univ. of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu: Center for South Asian Studies
• Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign:
  • Program in South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
  • Linguistics Dept.: Nonwestern Languages; siehe auch Hindi
• Indiana University: India Studies Program
• Univ. of Michigan:
  • Center for South Asian Studies
  • Asian Languages and Cultures
• Univ. of Minnesota: Department of Asian Languages and Literatures
• North Carolina Center for South Asian Studies
• Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia:
  • South Asia Studies
  • Center for the Advanced Study of India
• Univ. of Pittsburgh:
  Asian Studies Center (ASC) Center for the Performing Arts of India
• Rutgers University: South Asian Studies Program
• SUNY at Stony Brook: Center for India Studies
• Syracuse Univ.: South Asia Center
• Univ. of Texas, Austin: Dept. of Asian Studies
• Univ. of Virginia:
  • Center for South Asian Studies
  • Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures
• Washington and Lee University, Lexington VA:
  • Dept. of Religion
    • South Asia Page (Timothy Lubin)
• Univ. of Washington, Seattle:
  • Asian Languages and Literatures
  • South Asia Center
  • Southeast Asia Center
• Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison:
  • Dept. of Languages and Cultures of Asia
  • Center for South Asia
• Yale University: South Asian Studies Council

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Organisations

• Academy of Bangla Arts & Culture
• American Oriental Society
• Ancient India and Iran Trust (AIIT)
• Andaman Association
• Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA)
• Association for Asian Studies
• Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies (ANHS)
• British Association for Pakistan Studies
• British Association for South Asian Studies (BASAS)
• Deutsche Gesellschaft für Asienkunde e.V.
• Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft (DMG): Sektion Indologie
• European Alliance for Asian Studies
• European Association for South Asian Studies
• European Association for Southeast Asian Studies (EUROSEAS)
• European Network of Bangladesh Studies
• Finnish Oriental Society
• Föreningen för Orientaliska studier
• International Association for Ladakh studies (via CentrAsia)
• International Association for the Study of Traditional Asian Medicine
• International Association of Sanskrit Studies (IASS)
• Japanese Network for South Asian Studies (JP-SAS)
• Muktabodha Indological Research Institute
• Nettverk for Asiastudier
• New Zealand Asian Studies Society (NZASIA)
• Nordic Association for South Asian Studies
• Nordic Centre in India
• Oxford Centre for Vaishnava and Hindu Studies
• Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland
• Sällskapet för Asienstudier
• Società Indologica
• Society for South Asian Studies
• South and Southeast Asian Association for the Study of Religion
• South Asia Council (Canada)
• South Asia Research Network (SARN)
• South Asian Studies Association of Australia
• Southern Europe Network of Asian Studies
• Support Program for Asian Studies (SUPRA)

• European Institute for Asian Studies (EIAS)
• Centre for Modern Oriental Studies, Berlin
• Goethe-Institut Max Mueller Bhavan, New Delhi
• Asienhaus Essen / Asia House Essen
• Tagore Centre, Berlin
• Deutsch-Indische Gesellschaft
• German-Indian societies (list of Tagore Centre, Berlin)
• Schweizerisch-Indische Gesellschaft

• IDSAS: International Directory of South Asia Studies (Columbia Univ.)
• Preliminary Guide to Asian Studies in Europe (IIAS, Univ. Leiden)

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Search Engines

• See list of major search engines at Asian Studies - WWW Search Engines Guide - pt1.
  • Google Web Directory - Regional > Asia
    • ... > Maps and Views
    • ... > South Asia
      • Bangladesh | Bhutan | India | Maldives | Nepal | Pakistan | Sri Lanka || Himalayas
  • Google search engine in South Asian languages (selection):
    Bengali | Gujarati | Hindi | Kannada | Malayalam
    Marathi | Nepali | Oriya | Panjabi | Sanskrit | Sinhala
    Tamil | Telugu | Urdu
  • Google Scholar
  • Google Book Search

• Yahoo! - Regional > Regions > Asia

• 123India
• A2ZIndia
• Indianet
• NewIndia
• PalpapOnline
• Sandarbha
• Surfindia

• Sri Lanka Web Server

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Online Bibliographies

• South Asia Research Documentation Services (SARDS): 1786-2000 (Seminar für Indologie, Universität Halle-Wittenberg)
• Kleine Schriften der Glasenapp-Stiftung - Digitales Generalregister (KSGR) (Seminar für Indologie, Universität Halle-Wittenberg)
• Indica et Buddhica, Tabulae: Tables of Contents for Indology and Buddhology

• An Annotated Bibliography of Indian Medicine (Jan Meulenbeld)
• Cooperative Annotated Bibliography of Hindu Law and Dharmasastra (Donald R. Davis)
• Encyclopedia of Indian Philosophies (Karl Potter)
• Epic and Puranic Bibliography Online (Seminar für Indologie und Tibetologie, Univ. Göttingen)
• National Bibliography of Indian Literature, 1901-1953 (Digital South Asia Library, Chicago) - Online catalogue (without diacritics) of the volumes published by Sahitya Akademi
• Bibliography for seldom studied and endangered South Asian Languages (comp. by John Peterson, Univ. Osnabrück)
• ABIA South and Southeast Asian Art and Archaeology Index, Leiden
• Buddhist Digital Library & Museum

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Library Resources

• Indology: Library catalogues
• Libraries & Bibliographic Information on South Asia (SARAI)
• SARAI (Columbia Univ.)
• South Asia Gopher
• South Asia Library Group (SALG)
• Committee on South Asian Libraries and Documentation (CONSALD)
• Bibliography of Asian Studies
• South Asia Bibliographic Files
• Digital South Asia Library (Chicago)
• Digital Library of India
• IndCat - Online Union Catalogue of Indian Universities

• Catalogus Catalogorum of Sanskrit Manuscripts (GISTNIC, Hyderabad)
• Catalogue of Sanskrit Manuscripts at Saraswati Mahal Library, Tanjavur

• Berlin, Staatsbibliothek: Orientabteilung
  • Union Catalogue of Oriental Manuscripts in German Collections (KOHD)

• Heidelberg, University Library:
  • Special Collections: South Asia
  • Virtual Library South Asia (savifa)

• Munich, Bayer. Staatsbibliothek: Orientabteilung

• Tübingen, University Library:

• Vienna, Univ.: Bibliothek der Indologie

• Great Britain: UK Information Resources on Asia (UKIRA)

  • Cambridge, University Library

  • London, British Library:
    • Asia: Prints, drawings, photographs
    • Resources for South Asian studies
    • Resources for Southeast Asian studies

  • London (UCL), School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS): Library
    Subject Guides:
    • South Asia
    • Southeast Asia

  • Oxford, Bodleian Library:
    • Department of Oriental Collections

• Calcutta, Asiatic Society of Bengal

• Cennai (Madras), Adyar Library & Research Centre

• Mumbai (Bombay), Asiatic Society of Bombay / Mumbai

• New Delhi, National Archives of India

• New Delhi, Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts:
  • Kalanidhi
  • Library Database
  • Catalogue of Catalogue
  • Manuscripts survey of India
  • Jain Manuscripts Grantha Bhandaras of Prakrit Language in India

• New Delhi, Library of Congress Office

• Kathmandu, Asha Saphu Kuthi (ASK, = Asha Archives)

• Univ. of Chicago, J. Regenstein Library: Southern Asia Collection
• Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign: South Asian Collection, Asian Library
• Univ. of Texas (Austin): Libraries

• South Asia Resources Database (austral. Gesamtkatalog)

• National Bibliography of Indian Literature, 1901-1953 (Digital South Asia Library, Chicago) - Online catalogue (without diacritics) of the volumes published by Sahitya Akademi

Books in Print

Due to the absence resp. inadequacy of other national bibliographies for South Asian countries we depend on the information provided by various publishers and booksellers, e.g.

• DK Agencies - SEARCH
  
• Motilal Banarsidass

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Electronic Texts

Archives of electronic texts

(See also electronic access points and Sanskrit Documents link list.)

• GRETIL - Göttingen Register of Electronic Texts in Indian Languages (and related Indological materials from Central and Southeast Asia)

• INDOLOGY: Virtual e-Text Archive
• SARIT - Search and Retrieval of Indic Texts
• TITUS - Thesaurus indogermanischer Text- und Sprachmaterialien
• Electronic Publications, Berkeley Buddhist Research Center
• Sanskrit Documents
• John Smith's home page
• Kyoto Archive of Sanskrit Texts

• The South Asian Literary Recordings Project (Real Audio)

• Tipitaka Online
• Tipitaka.org
• Buddhist Scripture Information Retrieval (BUDSIR)

• Karmendu Shishir Shodhagar (KSS) An international archival collection of Hindi literary little magazines

• Malay Concordance Project (Ian Proudfoot, ANU)

Tools for electronic texts

• Online analysis of Sanskrit metres (Masahiro Takano)

• Peter Wyzlic, Daniel Stender: Digitalisierte Werke auf dem Felde der Indologie
• GRETIL e-library
• Digital Library of India
• E-Books: Full-Text Online Books on South Asia (SARAI)

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Position Papers and Opinions (under construction)

Interdisciplinary

Indology in general

Occasional writings

"Comic relief"

Interdisciplinary

• Vorschläge zur Sicherung guter wissenschaftlicher Praxis (DFG)
• Zukunft der Geisteswissenschaften & Welche Religion braucht die Gesellschaft? (Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften)
  • Manifest Geistewissenschaften
• Urs Schoettli: Pflichtfach Asienkunde - Die schwierige Abkehr vom Eurozentrismus - wider Klischees und Vorurteile (NZZ Feuilleton 4.1.2006; via Uni Bonn)
• Lehrreiches aus der Sinologie: Methodology (Warring States Project, University of Massachusetts Amherst)
  • The Anyway Delusion: History without Philology

• Richard F. Gombrich: On Being Sanskritic (... electronic text available?)
• Richard W. Lariviere: Protestants, Orientalists, and Brahmanas: Reconstructing Indian Social History (Gonda Lecture, 1994).
• Walter Slaje: Was ist und welchem Zwecke dient Indologie? Tractatus irae. In: ZDMG, 153 (2003), S. 311-331 (Authorized internet version. Please do not post it independently!).
• Walter Slaje: 10 Thesen zur Situation der deutschen Indologie (2005)
• Konrad Klaus: Indien ohne Vergangenheit? Ein Plädoyer für die Klassische Indologie.

• Reinhold Grünendahl: Indien und Deutschland - Die postorientalistische Neuerfindung einer Kulturbeziehung
• John D. Smith: "Complex agency" a "rhetorical conjuring trick" (S. Vasudeva's blog)
• Somadeva Vasudeva: Of Snake-oil salesmen and philologists, 1 [on textual criticism]

• The Postmodernism Generator (other text generators here)
• Chip Morningstar: How to Deconstruct Almost Anything
• Postorientalist Cookbook
• Der Vidusaka
• Rukun Advani: Indian History from Above and Below : Two Academic Parodies

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Electronic Journals and News

Surveys

• Indology: Electronic Journals
• SARAI: E-Journals

• Südasien Online
• South Aia Library Group: Electronic Journals & Newspapers
• South Asia Electronic Journals and Newspapers

• IndiaWorld on the Net
• Inside A - Das Asien-Netzwerk

• Electronic Journals and Newspapers on South Asia (SARAI)
• South Asian E-lists (ANU)

• Electronic Journal of Vedic Studies / International Journal of Tantric Studies / Journal of SA Women Studies
• Journal of Buddhist Ethics
• The Hindu
• Frontline
• India Today
• The Times of India

• South Asia Analysis Group

• All India Radio
  • Sanskrit News (via "Sanskrit Documents" server)
• Samachar
• Doordarshan

• South Asia Radio Guide

• BBC News | South Asia
• BBC Online - Asian Life
• AsiaNow (CNN, Time, & Asiaweek)
• Deutsche Welle (in various Indian languages)

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Discussion Groups

(See also "Indian Newsgroups and Mailing Lists" (WWW Virtual Library) and other electronic access points.)

• INDOLOGY-Homepage (see here for: Discussion Archive, e-texts, resources, etc.)

• Yahoo Group INDOLOGY: Academic List for the Discussion of Classical India

• INDOLOGIE : Informationsaustausch der deutschsprachigen Indologie (see here for Archive and subscription)

• Vyakaran
• Yahoo group Indo-Eurasian Research
• Classical Tamil

• More language lists here.

• H-Asia
• Religion in South Asia
• H-Buddhism

• Literature of South Asia and the Indian diaspora (SASIALIT)
  

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Languages

(See INDOLOGY and other Access Points.)

• Short descriptions of the languages of Asia in Ethnologue - Languages of the World: Asia:
  • according to languages families:

    Andaman | Austro-Asiatic | Austronese | Dravidian | Hmong-Mien | Indo-European | Sino-Tibetan

  • according to countries:

    South Asia:
    Bangladesh | Bhutan | India | Maldives | Nepal | Pakistan | Sri Lanka

    Southeast Asia:
    Cambodia | Indonesia | Laos | Malaysia | Myanmar | Philippines | Singapore | Thailand | Viet Nam

• The Indian Languages Page
• Himalayan Languages Project
• Languages-on-the-Web.com
  
• South Asian Linguistics (online bibliography comp. by John Peterson, Univ. Osnabrück)

• YourDictionary.com: list of online-dictionaries for c. 280 languages

• Indology: Online Dictionaries and Thesauri

• Cologne University:
  • Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries
  • Sanskrit, Tamil and Pahlavi Dictionaries

• Newari Lexicon based on the Amarakosa
• Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (UC Berkeley)

• Dictionaries and grammars in the GRETIL e-library (herunterladbare PDFs):
  • Malalasekera, G.P.: Dictionary of Pali Proper Names (2 vols., 1937-1938)
  • Sörensen, S.: Index to the Names in the Mahabharata (1904-1925)

  • Macdonell, A.A.: A Vedic Grammar for Students (1916)
  • Macdonell, A.A.: Vedic Grammar (1910)
  • Speyer, J.S.: Vedische und Sanskrit-Syntax (1896)
  • Whitney, W.D.: A Sanskrit Grammar (1889)
  • Whitney, W.D.: The Roots, Verb-forms and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language (1885)

  • Geiger, W.: Pali - Literatur und Sprache (1916)
  • Pischel, R.: Grammatik der Prakrit-Sprachen (1900)

  • Caldwell, R.: A Comparative Grammar of the Dravidian or South-Indian Family of Languages (1856)

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Scripts, Fonts, etc.

Scripts

• Indoskript (cf. above)
• Omniglot: Syllabic alphabets

• Arlo Griffiths: [Table of Oriya aksaras from palm-leaf manuscripts] (preliminary version)

• Tamra Reiyan Aksar Poran (Introduction to old Southeast Asian scripts)

Fonts, etc.

• Indology: Multilingual software, text processing tools, fonts, etc.
• Technology Development for Indian Languages Programme (Govt. of India)
• Yashwant K. Malaiya (Colorado State Univ.): India: Languages and Scripts
• The Digital Classicist (XWiki) How do I type and display Sanskrit on my PC/Mac?
• Luc Devroye (Carlton Univ., Ottawa): Indic Language Fonts

• Unicode ranges for Indian (and other) scripts: Alan Wood's Unicode Resources
• Tool for identifying Unicode characters: UniSearcher

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Geography etc.

(See INDOLOGY and other Electronic Access Points; cf. also Search Engines).

• Area Handbook Series (LoC)
  • Bangladesh | Bhutan | India | Nepal | Pakistan | Sri Lanka
    
  • Madagascar | Maldives | Seychelles
• Govt. of India: Directory of Official Websites
• Embassy of India (Washington, D.C.): Links
• Census of India
  Historical Census Reports:
  • Census of British India 1891 with Memorandum on 1871/72
  
  
• Mapping Asia (in UK libraries)
• Southasia Net
• WWW Virtual Library / India

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Indian Religions

Surveys and search tools

• Religious Studies Internet Links (Wilfrid Laurier Univ., Dept. of Religion and Culture)
• Virtual Religion Index
• AKAR - Arbeitskreis Asiatische Religionsgeschichte der Deutschen Vereinigung für Religionsgeschichte (AKAR)

• Religion in South Asia Archives

• The Hindu Universe - Scriptures

• Comparative Religion - Eastern Religions
• Buddhist Studies WWW VL
• Berkeley Buddhist Research Center (BBRC)

• Web Guide to Buddhist Studies

• Comparative Religion - Eastern Religions

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Philosophy

• Encyclopedia of Indian Philosophies (K. Potter)

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History

• SARAI: South Asian History
• Links to India information: History (WWWVL)
• Internet Indian History Sourcebook

• Historical Atlases and Maps [Imperial Gazetteer, Schwartzberg, etc.] (Digital South Asia Library)

• Calendaric calculation with Michio Yano's Pancanga
• Lists of rulers by Obsidian's Lair: Regnal Chronologies:
  India | Sri Lanka, Maledives | Southeast Asia: Mainland | Southeast Asia: the Islands
• Coins of India
• Materials for research in Sanskrit inscriptions (Dmitriy N. Lielukhine)
• Hindu calendar

• Digital Colonial Documents including Census Reports (La Trobe University)
• Images of Empire (British Empire and Commonwealth Museum, Bristol)

• Archaeological Survey of India

• Harappa (with Indus Valley Resources and links relating to Indian history)

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History of Asian / Indian Art

• ABIA South and Southeast Asian Art and Archaeology Index, Leiden

• National Museum of India, New Delhi
• American Institute of Indian Studies / Center for Electronic Text and Image: South Asia
• asianart.com
• The Huntington Archive
• British Museum: Dept. of Asia
• Museum für Indische Kunst, Berlin
• Southeast Asian Monuments: a selection of 100 slides (Univ. Leiden)
• Indian Archaeological Society
• Templenet - Indian Temple website

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Internet Resources on Nepal

• Area Handbook Series (LoC)
  
  Nepal

• Nepal Studies Association (ANHS)
• Nepal: Guide to Resources
• Nepalmandal

• Nepal Home Page
• Radio Nepal

• Digital Himalaya

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Internet Resources on Sri Lanka

• Area Handbook Series (LoC)
  
  Sri Lanka

• Sri Lanka Net
• Sri Lanka: Guide to Resources (University of Texas, Austin)

• Sinhala Page

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Internet Resources on Tibet

• Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus (UC Berkeley)

• Tibetan Studies (WWWVL)
• Tibet Resources (University of Virginia Library)
• The Tibetan and Himalayan Digital Library (University of Virginia)
• PL480 Microfiche Edition of Tibetan Literature (Toyo Bunko)

• Tibetisches Zentrum e.V. Hamburg

• Map of Tibet

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Internet Resources on Central Asia

• Central Eurasian Studies Society

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Internet Resources on Southeast Asia

• Area Handbook Series (LoC)
  
  Cambodia | Indonesia | Laos | Philippines | Singapore | Thailand | Vietnam

• Google Web Directory - Regional > Asia
  • ... > Maps and Views
  • ... > Southeast Asia
    Cambodia | East Timor | Indonesia | Laos | Malaysia | Myanmar | Philippines | Singapore | Thailand | Vietnam

• Tamra Reiyan Aksar Poran (Introduction to old Southeast Asian scripts)

• Centre for Pacific Studies and Oceania Newsletter
• European Association for Southeast Asian Studies (EUROSEAS)

• Humboldt-Universität, Berlin:
  Sem. für Südostasien-Studien
• Univ. Hamburg:
  Seminar für Indonesische und Südseesprachen
  Abteilung für Sprachen des südostasiatischen Festlandes
• Univ. Passau: Southeast Asian Studies

• Univ. Copenhagen: Asien-instituttet
• Leiden:
  Universiteit Leiden
  
  Department of Indonesian Studies
  Kern Instituut
  Royal Institute of Linguistics and Anthropology (KITLV)
• Univ. of London, School of Oriental and African Studies:
  Centre of South East Asian Studies
  Dept. of the Languages and Cultures of South East Asia and the Islands
  
• Univ. Lund:
  Centre for East and Southeast Asian Studies
• Univ. de Provence / Centre National de la recherche scientifique:(CNRS)
  Institute de recherche sur le sud-est asiatique (IRSEA)
  

• University of Madras:
  Centre for South and South East Asian Studies

• Cornell University:
  Southeast Asia Program (SEAP)
• Northern Illinois Univ. (NIU):
  Center for Southeast Asian Studies
  Center for Burma Studies
• University of California, Berkeley:
  Dept. of South and Southeast Asian Studies
  Center for Southeast Asia Studies (CSEAS)
• University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu:
  Center for Southeast Asian Studies
  Center for Philippine Studies
• University of Michigan:
  Center for Southeast Asian Studies

• Moluks Historisch Museum

• Online Burma / Myanmar Library
• Thailand: NECTEC, Bangkok
• Vietnam Online

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