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News & Business

Asian & European Business Collection This link opens in a new window Database covering Asian and European business and finance. It provides information on companies, economies, markets, international trade, and overall business conditions and practices throughout these regions.
Asian Newsstream This link opens in a new window Access to over 60 national and regional sources of newspapers and current information across Asia and the Far East. Many titles are available in full text and are updated within 24 hours of publication. Publications include The Wall Street Journal Asia, China News and The Bangkok Post. Mainly English language. OCR text content. Date coverage: Late 20th century - current
South Asian Newspapers This link opens in a new window Searchable 19th and 20th century newspapers from India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. The newspapers are mostly English language titles with some Bengali and Gujarati content also available. Digitised page scans. Date coverage: 1864-1909
Times of India This link opens in a new window Full text searchable archive of The Times of India, an English language newspaper published in Mumbai (formerly known as Bombay), Maharashtra. Digitised article and full page scans. Date coverage: 1838 – 2007
World News in Indian Newspapers, 1782-1908 This link opens in a new window Collection of three English language newspaper titles: The India Gazette, The Bengal Hurkaru and Chronicle, and The Bengal Times. These newspapers were published in India with a target audience of colonial businessmen, merchants, and administrators with an interest in regional and international trade. Digitised full page scans. Date coverage: 1782-1908

Online Archives

Area Studies: India This link opens in a new window A vital resource for the study of the British Indian Empire and the history, culture and literature of the Indian subcontinent from 1712 to 1942.
British Raj: Resistance and Reform in India, 1879-1910 This link opens in a new window Covers the Viceroys of both Lord Curzon and Gilbert John Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound in the British Raj between the period of 1899 and 1910. Contains departmental papers from both men’s ascendency, covering infrastructure, the military, commerce and industry, foreign affairs, health, and internal security and governance in the British Raj.
East India Company This link opens in a new window Digitised primary source archive covering all aspects of British trade with, and government of, India from 1595 to 1947, under the East India Company itself and under the British Crown.
East India Company: Corrupt Governance and Cruelty in India, 1806-1814 This link opens in a new window Contains the East India Company papers of the First Earl of Minto, Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound, who served as Governor-General of India from 1806-1813. The collection is drawn from his personal papers during his time as premier of the East India Company (EIC), including correspondence with other officials, papers from the political department, papers from the secret department, and files pertaining to his time as President of the Board of Control.
East India Company: Laying the Foundations for British Colonial Domination of India, 1752-1774 This link opens in a new window Contains personal and professional papers of two East India Company employees, Colonel Robert Clive and Brigadier-General John Carnac. Clive was a British military commander and eventual Governor of Bengal whilst Carnac served as Commander-in-Chief of the East India Company in India between 1760-1761. Includes military records, correspondence and financial records from the East India Company.
Foreign Office Files for India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, 1947-1980 This link opens in a new window This collection of files from the Foreign Office (later the Foreign and Commonwealth Office) and Dominions Office focuses on the political and social history of India, Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Hindu Conspiracy Cases: Activities of the Indian Independence Movement in the U.S., 1908-1933 This link opens in a new window Covering 1908-1933, this covers the activities of Indian nationalists in the U.S. Included here are records covering U.S. government's prosecution of these nationalists in the Hindu Conspiracy Case for violations of the Espionage Act and immigration records detailing efforts to revoke the citizenship of certain Indians and exclude others.
India-Pakistan Conflict: Records of the U.S. State Department, February 1963-1966 This link opens in a new window U.S. State Department files on India and Pakistan and their political relationship with one another.
India from Crown Rule to Republic, 1945-1949: Records of the U.S. State Department This link opens in a new window Files relating to the internal affairs of India and U.S. relations with India. Records include translations of Indian government documents, speeches, memoranda, official reports, journals and newspapers, and transcripts of political meetings and assemblies.
Indian and Sri Lankan records from colonial missionaries, 1770-1931 This link opens in a new window Includes letters and supplementary material compiled by the Indian and Sri Lankan branches of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (now the United Society Partners in Gospel ) during the period 1770-1952.
Indian Communists and Trade Unionists on Trial: the Meerut Conspiracy, 1929-1933 This link opens in a new window Contains papers and documents surrounding the Meerut Conspiracy Case - a controversial court case initiated in British India in 1929. It began with the arrest and subsequent trial of twenty-nine trade unionists, including three Englishmen. These men were collectively charged under Section 121A of the Indian Penal Code, it was alleged that they had attempted ‘to deprive the King Emperor of the sovereignty of British India… ordained by the Communist International’.
Pakistan from Crown Rule to Republic: Records of the U.S. Department of State, 1945-1949 This link opens in a new window A companion archive to India from Crown Rule to Republic, 1945-1949, this collection traces the end of British India and the emergence of modern Pakistan. Contains a variety of documents on political and economic topics, all sourced from the Central Files of the General Records of the U.S. Department of State.
South Asia Commons This link opens in a new window Indian Sub-Continent archive covering the colonial and post-colonial periods of South Asia (18th Century to Mid 20th Century). Source materials include journals, maps, reports, and books,.

Literature

South and Southeast Asian Literature in English via Proquest One Literature This link opens in a new window text-based collection that showcases the literary imagination and linguistic inventiveness of Asian writers as they negotiate their varied cultural identities. It comprises thousands of pages of English-language fiction, short fiction, and poems written from the end of the colonial era to the present and gives rich insights to scholars of literature, anthropology, linguistics, postcolonial theory and criticism, history, politics, and culture.

Useful Links

World Bank South Asia Data
Graph, map and compare more than time series indicators from the World Development Indicators.
Asia Times Online
Daily online news coverage. CAn browse by region (South Asia) and countries
BBC News for Asia
India specific content is also available.
Asia News Network
Latest news from Asia News Network