Regional Sites - South Asia

American Institute of Indian Studies: Center for Art and Archaeology: Photo Archives

The AIIS photographic archive is a joint venture of the AIIS and the Digital South Asia Library project. It consists of architectural, sculpture, painting and numismatic databases with search engine. Includes a slide show of A tour of Bamiyan Buddha

http://dsal.uchicago.edu/images/aiis

Chennai Studio

Contemporary artists living and working in Chennai, India.

http://www.chennaistudio.com/

Fakir Khana Museum, Pakistan

Faqir Khana owns one the largest private antiques collection in South Asia. The collection holds around 30,000 antique pieces from British, Sikh & Mughal era.

http://www.fakirkhana.com/

Flowers Underfoot: Indian Carpets of the Mughal Era

To accompany an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, illustrating carpet weaving in India from the late 16th - 18th century. Provides an historical background, information on carpet construction and the designs used, covering pattern, symmetry and themes. A glossary, bibliography, and teaching resources are included.

http://www.metmuseum.org/explore/flowers/htm/index.htm

Harappa com.

A useful source of images and information on the Indus Valley.

http://www.harappa.com/

Himalayan Art

Virtual exhibition to bring together images of Himalayan art from around the world. Consists of paintings, sculpture, block prints and murals with descriptions.

http://www.himalayanart.org/welcome.cfm

Indian Art

A useful web directory of art, artists and culture of India.

http://www.zeroland.co.nz/indian_art.html#c

Indus Valley Web Resources

A very useful collection of annotated links to the Indus Valley civilisation, created by the University of California, Berkeley.

http://ias.berkeley.edu/orias/links-indus.html

Islamic Heritage of India

A picture collection on Islamic arts and monuments of India.

http://www.kamat.com/kalranga/muslim/

Islamic Monuments in India: Photographic Database

About 20,000 black and white photographs of Islamic monuments in India taken by the University of Tokyo expedition in the early 1960s in the collection of the Research and Information Center for Asian Studies, Institute of Oriental Culture, University of Tokyo.

http://www.ioc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~islamarc/WebPage1/htm_eng/index_eng

Jamini Roy: Bengali Artist of Modern India

Online exhibition of over forty works from the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art at the University of Florida. Also includes biographical information on the artist.

http://kaladarshan.arts.ohio-state.edu/exhib/Roy/HP.htm