E-images collections (South Asia)

AGSL Digital photo archive : Asia and Middle East presents over 4,000 images from the holdings of the American Geographical Society (AGS) Library. The selection focuses on the countries of Asia and the Middle East. The images come from the collections acquired over many decades by the AGS Library including an extensive photographic print collection.

Art Sri Lanka The site presents a number of online exhibitions displaying the work of twenty eight leading Sri Lankan artists. Other sections of the website investigate the art history, religious art, and antiquities of the country.

Asian Historical Architecture  A photographic survey of Asia's architectural heritage from sites in eighteen countries Afghanistan, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, North Korea, South Korea, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam, with background information and virtual tours. 

Beyond the Taj Architectural traditions and landscape experience in South Asia, a collection developed by Professor Bonnie G. MacDougall and Margaret Webster of the College of Architecture, Art and Planning, Cornell University. The visual core of the collection consists of approximately 3,000 photographs taken throughout South Asia by Professor Robert D. MacDougall (1940-1987), an architect and anthropologist.

Birla Academy of Art & Culture Provides access to some of its collection. There is a museum 'tour', in which images of the sculptures and paintings displayed in the academy are presented, as well as a section called 'collectors' corner', which shows off a selection of the contemporary paintings in the collection.

Black Peacock A large number of Indian devotional images and scenes from religious and mythological tales.

Delight in design: Indian silver for the Raj  An exhibition based on the collection of Paul F. Walter at Miriam  & Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University, curated by Vidya Dehejia, with Dipti Khera and Yuthika Sharma.

Digital art & manuscript images from pre-modern South Asia  Part of Indology : resources for Indological Scholarship, BASAS.

Digital South Asia Library : Images

The French Institute of Pondichery - photo Archives A unique resource for visual information about South India in the second half of the twentieth century, particularly its temple art. 

A guide to architecture in Hyderabad, Deccan, India Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture, MIT Libraries

Huntington Archive contains nearly 300,000 original color slides and black and white and color photographs of art and architecture throughout Asia. Countries covered in the collection include India, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Thailand, Indonesia, Myanmar (Burma), China, and Japan.

Indian & Tibetan Buddhist Art The 'pictures' link takes users to a gallery of images of the artworks, accompanied by descriptive texts.

Indian paintings & textiles (Oriental Museum, Durham University) Highlights include exquisite miniature portraits, scenes from Hindu and Jain mythology, and richly embroidered costumes and furnishings.

International Collections Database showcases some of the visual materials held by the Special Collections Division of University of Washington Libraries. In this digital collection are featured selected photographs and postcards from Asia and South America including scenes from China, India, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Japan, 1870s-1930s. 

OMuRAA (Online Museum Resources on Asian Art) Initiative of the Asia for Educators Program at Columbia University, a resource database of museum and art-related  educational resources.

South Asian & Himalayan Art  Part of Freer Sackler online collection.

Svadesh Videsh The British Library’s collection of prints, drawings and photographs from the Indian subcontinent and its surrounding territories is one of the world’s greatest visual records of the cultural history of South Asia from the late-eighteenth to the mid-twentieth century.

Tasveer Ghar : digital archive of South Asian popular visual culture