Other libraries
This is a list of Libraries and Archives with important collections relating to South Asia. It is initially a listing of important collections in the UK but will develop to include smaller collections in the UK and important collections overseas.
British Library Oriental & India Office Collections
The British Library - through the combination of the collecting traditions of the old British Museum Library and the India Office Library and Records - possesses the finest single resource for Asian, and particularly South Asian, studies in the world.
India Office Records (British Library)
They comprise the archives of the East India Company (1600-1858), of the Board of Control or Board of Commissioners for the Affairs of India (1784-1858), of the India Office (1858-1947), of the Burma Office (1937-1948), and of a number of related British agencies overseas.
South Asia through Official Eyes (SATOE)
This site maps the UK national collections of South Asian official publications and acts as an aid to develop collections of South Asian official publications within the UK.
Mapping Asia
Mapping Asia offers a searchable database for resource discovery in all subject areas of the humanities and social sciences relating to Asia, the Middle East and North Africa.
Mundus: Gateway to Missionary Collections in the United Kingdom
This is a web-based guide to more than 400 collections of overseas missionary materials held in the United Kingdom. This holds the Archives of British missionary societies, collections of personal papers, printed matter, photographs, other visual materials and artefacts.
Royal Asiatic Society Library
The Royal Asiatic Society exists to encourage and facilitate Asian Studies and is Britain's senior learned society in the field. The Library is primarily for the use of the members of the Society, both Fellows and Library Associates. Other readers may be admitted, by prior appointment, for a limited period of time.
Indian Institute Library, Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
The Indian Institute Library, opened in 1886, is a dependent library of the Bodleian specialising in the history and culture of South Asia, Tibet and the Himalayas. The collection covers the history and culture of South Asia from medieval times to the present day. The collection contains books in and on most post-classical Indic languages, although holdings are much less substantial than those for Sanskrit, Prakrit and Pali.
Indian Institute Library, Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
Indian Institute Library, specialises in the history and culture of South Asia, Tibet and the Himalayas. From medieval times to the present day, the collection contains books in and on most post-classical Indic languages, although holdings are much less substantial than those for Sanskrit, Prakrit and Pali.
Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine : Oriental Collections
Primary and secondary sources on the History of medicine, forms the core of the collection. Several catalogues of the major language collections have been published and catalogues of the smaller Oriental collections appear in appropriate learned journals.
Library, Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Cambridge
The Library of the Faculty of Oriental Studies has grown, from very modest beginnings in the early years of the twentieth century, to what is now a collection of more than 50,000 volumes about the language, literature and culture of the countries stretching across the centre of Asia from Turkey to Japan.
Royal Commonwealth Society Library, Cambridge
From its foundation in 1868, the Royal Commonwealth Society has a range of books, pamphlets, periodicals, official publications, manuscripts and photographs. With 300,000 printed items and over 70,000 photographs, including material on South Asia.More information
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