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Resources on South Asia
SAARC - The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation
Provides a platform for the people of South Asia to work together in a spirit of friendship, trust and understanding. Its documentation center and library, located in New Delhi, provides information services to Member States.

SAMAJ - South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal
First online journal devoted to social studies on South Asia, which publishes research-based articles in extenso and free of cost, while still applying the basic rules of all scientific journals. Written by professional academics as well as doctoral students, every article has been anonymously reviewed by two referees before publication. Its scope is multidisciplinary, covering studies in history, geography, anthropology, sociology, political science and economy.

SAN - The South Asian Network
Promotes the health and empowerment of people of South Asian origin living in California, and fills a critical service gap in the South Asian Community, which traditionally has been underserved by public interest organizations.

SARAI - South Asia Resource Access on the Internet
is hosted by Columbia University and is one of the best sources for finding web-based information in South Asian studies. It provides useful links to reference and bibliographical resources, e-journals, e-news, e-boooks, and also International Directory of South Asian scholars.

SARN - the South Asia Research Network
has been created to promote the production, exchange, and dissemination of basic research information in the social sciences and humanities. It provides links to electronic publications, research notes, abstracts, research centres, and conferences.

SASNET - The Swedish South Asian Studies Network
is a national network for research, education, and information about South Asia, based at Lund University. It encourages and promotes an open and dynamic networking process in which Swedish researchers co-operate with researchers in South Asia and globally.

SAWNET - the South Asian Women Network
is a useful medium of communication about South Asian women. it exists entirely in the electronic medium and its mailing list is run by a group of volunteer moderators that reaches over 700 women in four continents.

INFLIBNET - The information and Library Network Centre
is the product of the Indian University Grants Commission, involved in creating infrastructure for sharing information among academic and research institutions. It is a good source for books, serials, and theses databases available in university libraries in India.

India Findrouter
Search engine and web directory for India.

The World Bank
Data, projects and research on South Asia.


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CSAL - the Center for South Asian Libraries
is an American overseas research center, developed to facilitate scholarly research and teaching on South Asia through inproved preservation of and access to the heritage of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. It provides research support facility for American scholars by providing infrastructure and facilities to enhance research effectiveness and the exchange of scholarly information.

DSAL - the Digital South Asia Library
is a project of the Center for Research Libraries, and provides digital materials for reference and research on South Asia to scholars, public officials, and other users. This project has been funded by the Association of Research Libraries' Global Resources Program with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Several languages dictionaries, reference books, and journals have already been digitized and are available free on the web to everyone.

SALRP - the South Asian Literary Recordings Project
records the voices of prominent authors from the region reading excerpts from their works. recordings are available in Real Media and MP3 formats.

Universal Library Project
is the result of collaborative efforts of professionals and educationists from India, China, and the United States. Digitization of materials in South Indian languages has already begun.

Vidyanidhi
is a project of the Indian doctoral theses dababase, established to evolve as an online resource funded by the Ford Foundation and Microsoft.

Teach India Project
is a n on-profit organization registered in Massachusetts, USA, founded to support global education programs in schools K to 12.  The Teach India Project publishes an online newsletter for parents who are bringing up multicultural children and teachers who want to teach their children about India, develops standards based teaching kits for schools and offers a travel study fellowship for teacher travel to India.



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