Key Resources and sample searches:
- OneSearch - books and articles; this link starts with the list of relevant countries, not limited to any particular academic disciplines (over 33 million before you add your own keywords)
SU "south asia*" OR SU india OR SU bangladesh OR SU pakistan OR SU "sri lanka" OR SU nepal OR SU bhutan OR SU maldives - OneSearch - narrowed to a subset of disciplines relating to the humanities and social sciences and to materials in the library collection (about 1 million before you add your own keywords)
- Gave Virtual Reference Library - hundreds of subject-specialty encyclopedias on religion, education, world cultures, etc. with many entries in each relating to the South Asian countries' people
- Encyclopedia of World Cultures volume 3 is South Asia
- Encyclopedia of India - 4 volumes
Other resources:
- South Asia Open Archives - a project of JSTOR, "South Asia Open Archives is a free open-access resource for research and teaching - a rich and growing curated collection of key historical and contemporary sources in arts, humanities and social sciences, from and about South Asia, in English and other languages of the region. SAOA's collection contains hundreds of thousands of pages of books, journals, newspapers, census data, magazines, and documents, with particular focus on social & economic history, literature, women & gender, and caste & social structure."
- Duke University Libraries' guide to South Asia research - includes many free resources but also some licensed at Duke that UPEI doesn't have
- Cambridge University Centre of South Asian Studies' online resources - links to many resources all over the Internet
- Library of Congress South Asia Resources
- Digital South Asia Library (U Chicago)
- Columbia University South Asia Resources
- New York Univ South Asia Resources
- Univ of Washington South Asia Resources
- UCLA South Asia Resources
- Univ of Pennsylvania South Asia Resources
- Oxford Univ South Asia Resources
- Australia National Univ South Asia Resources
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