The Princeton University Library catalog will guide you toward primary resources in print and online, depending on your object of knowledge. Use the catalog to find autobiographies, literature, periodicals, census data, reports, and more.
Refer to the Library of Congress Romanization Tables for assistance with transliterating South Asian languages into Roman script. While this is the system used in the PUL catalog, search creatively as more than one system for representing SA languages is in use worldwide.
South Asia Ephemera Collection The South Asian Ephemera Collection is an openly accessible repository of items that spans a variety of subjects and languages and will support research, teaching, and private study. Newly acquired materials are being digitized and added on an ongoing basis. Collections of ephemera and digital art elsewhere include:
Digital library of early printed books in Arabic script. Covering religious literature, law, science, mathematics, astrology, alchemy, medicine, geography, travel, history, chronicles, and literature, and including European translations of Arabic works and Arabic translations of European books, it exemplifies the long exchange of ideas and learning between Europe and the Arabic-speaking world. 1475-1900
Covers every region of the world and features the work of many of the most influential documentary filmmakers of the 20th century, including interviews, previously unreleased raw footage, field notes, study guides, and more for the study of human culture and behavior.
For later years see World News Connection.
Policy Commons preserves and provides access to more than 30 million pages of curated policy reports and briefs, analyses, working papers, books, case studies, tables, charts, media, and statistical publications created by 25,000 policy organizations (NGOs, IGOs, foundations, think tanks, government agencies, etc.) from around the world. Platform provides multiple filters and advanced searching operators.
The South Asia Archive is a resource for students and scholars across the humanities and social sciences, and the historical documents within it cover colonial and early post-colonial India and the wider sub-continent. Comprising material sourced from collectors and archivists by the South Asia Research Foundation, this Archive brings together primary and secondary content.
The South Asian Governmental Publications Web Archive aims to collect and preserve open access online formats of government serials from South Asia. From demographic data to legislative proceedings, the serials that form the focus of the Archive include publications on all subjects and from all countries of the region (Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka).