Identity Studies

The Digital South Asia Library provides digital materials for reference and research on South Asia to scholars, public officials, business leaders, and other users. Participants in the Digital South Asia Library include leading U.S. universities, the Center for Research Libraries, the South Asia Microform Project, the Committee on South Asian Libraries and Documentation, the Association for Asian Studies, the Library of Congress, the Asia Society, the British Library, the University of Oxford, the University of Cambridge, MOZHI in India, the Sundarayya Vignana Kendram in India, Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya in Nepal, and other institutions in South Asia.

Collection of manuscripts, books, magazines, newspapers, photographs, pamphlets, and other files related to the Panjab/Punjab region in India.

A project by NYU, this digital library contains digitized versions of works published in Afghanistan between 1870 and 1930.

The Qatar Digital Library (QDL) is making a vast archive featuring the cultural and historical heritage of the Gulf and wider region freely available online for the first time. It includes archives, maps, manuscripts, sound recordings, photographs and much more, complete with contextualised explanatory notes and links, in both English and Arabic.

The Tibetan and Himalayan Library (THL) is a publisher of websites, information services, and networking facilities relating to the Tibetan plateau and southern Himalayan regions. THL promotes the integration of knowledge and community across the divides of academic disciplines, the historical and the contemporary, the religious and the secular, the global and the local.

The Southeast Asia Digital Library (SEADL) exists to provide educators, students, scholars and members of the general public with a wide variety of materials published or otherwise produced in Southeast Asia. Nations represented in the collection include Brunei, Cambodia, East Timor, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam.

SOAS University of London specializes in the study of Asia, Africa and the Near and Middle East. Its digital collections include archives and manuscripts, photographs, maps, books and journals, newspapers, oral histories, films and audio. Collections can be sorted by region.

Archive of ethnographic materials from the Himalayan region.

Online repository on Mahatma Gandhi, contains articles, images, videos, and audio.

The South Asia Open Archives (SAOA), a subset of the South Asia Materials Project (SAMP), creates and maintains a collection of open access materials for the study of South Asia. It has a particular emphasis on colonial-era materials.

GAIA is an initiative of the division of International and Area Studies, University of California, Berkeley, in partnership with the University of California Press, the California Digital Library, and international research programs across the University of California system. It contains many free books and some articles related to Asian Studies.

The Buddhist Digital Resource Center is a nonprofit organization dedicated to seeking out, preserving, documenting, and disseminating Buddhist literature. Provides free access to a large collection of Buddhist texts

A collaborative gathering of information related to Buddhism in China between 1850 and 1950 CE.

Contains general information about Hinduism, including English translations of key texts.

A digital collection of Islamic manuscripts, published texts, and maps from across Harvard's libraries and museums.

Comprehensive compilation of socio-economic statistical data about India.

Information about economics and demographics, can browse by country or region.

Contains reports about human rights issues around the world. Searchable by country or region.

Women Living Under Muslim Laws (WLUML) is a transnational feminist solidarity network that promotes human rights and gender justice and equality for women whose lives are shaped, conditioned or governed by patriarchal and/or authoritarian interpretations of Islam. Their website provides reports related to women in Islam.