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000 == L A N G U A G E S

LANGUAGES == AN OVERVIEW

GENERAL LANGUAGE HISTORY

Alphapage.html - University of Maryland
Ancient Scripts of the World, a wonderful site
AncientScripts.com
BnF_ aventure des Ecritures _ chronologie
BnF_ Ecritures _ matieres et Formes _ sommaire
Ethnologue, 13th edition, 1996
Numbers in Over 4000 Languages
The Indo-European Database
The LINGUIST List_ Language & Language Family Information
The Lord's Prayer in 1103 languages
the PIE website

GENERAL LANGUAGE TEACHING RESOURCES

About LangNet
CARLA_ Less Commonly Taught Languages
http--www.voanews.com-
LangNet
LRC Homepage
The Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning
The South Asian Literary Recordings Project (Library of Congress New Delhi Office)
UCLA Language Materials Project Index Pages
Virtual Picture Album --India

SOUTH ASIAN LANGUAGES

325 recognized Indian languages
Central Institute of Indian Languages
Digital Dictionaries of South Asia
Ecritures _ Ecritures indiennes _ geographie
Eden's Page_Scripts of all of Asia
GRETIL - GÃ¶ttingen Register of Electronic Texts in Indian Languages
IAS Memory of Asia palm-leaf manuscript preservation
Indian alphabet comparison page
Languages & Linguistics of South Asia
Languages, Best Indian Sites on the Net
Languages
List of the major Indian languages with numbers of speakers
The history of Indic languages and scripts
yourDictionary.com • Indo-Iranian Languages
South Asia Language Resource Center
Kharosthi alphabet
South Asian Languages
Language in India
South Asia Language Pedagogy and Technology: Electronic journal of the South Asia Language Resource Center
GICAS South Asian Linguistic Materials - ENGLISH ver.

LANGUAGES == FONTS FOR SCRIPTS

Altruists International
ApniUrdu.com Home
CRULP
Department of Information Technology
Directory of _pub_john_software_fonts
Directory of _pub_tex-archive_language_devanagari
Downloading DEVAKEY - Devanagari at your fingertips - fonts
FAQ on South Asian fonts
Hardip S Pannu's Lok Seva Home Page
Indic language fonts
Indology_ font inventory
InPage - Concept Software
ISIS - Indian Script Input System - Home
Linguist's Software fonts for many languages
Nastaleeq Nizami
Resources for free marathi (devnagari) fonts
Sanskrit Documents List
Sanskrit Page of Omkarananda Ashram Himalayas
SaralSoft Home Page!
Shivaji01-Sanskrit98 Fonts
takhti
Transliteration in Tamil
U-TRANS - Putting Urdu in Web pages
Unicode and multilingual support in HTML, fonts, Web browsers and other applications
Welcome to Baraha.com
Installing Fonts and Keyboard Layouts: South Asian Language and Resource Center: South Asia Language Resource Center
The World’s First Hindi PC - Happy 60th India! स्वतंत्रता दिवस की शुभकामनायें | Brahmi Hindi English: Happy 60th India! स्वतंत्रता दिवस की शुभकामनायें! Kalibonca is delighted to unveil the World's First Hindi PC for India's 60th Independence Day! It is an ...

LANGUAGES == HINDI

DEVANAGARI SCRIPT SITES

A historical map of Varanasi - Kailasanatha Sukula's Mirror of Kashi (Kashidarpana, 1876)
BBC World Service - Hindi Front Page
Letters of Rani of Jhansi
Mellon Project_ Advanced Hindi -- Premchand and Ghalib
Rajasthani-- some historical documents transcribed
Hindi Script Tutor
salCORPORA: salCORPORA - The text database salCORPORA contains written corpora of South Asian Languages

GENERAL SITES

Bharatvani-- first Hindi radio on the internet
Hindi World (English version)
Word AnyWhere Hindi English and Other Indian Languages Dictionary

LANGUAGE LEARNING

A Door Into Hindi by Afroz Taj
A Hindi-English jumble, spoken by 350 million csmonitor.com
Acharya -- see the letters made for you
Devanagari letters shown in huge type
FLN 301 Advanced Hindi-Urdu
FLN 302 Advanced Hindi-Urdu II
Grammar points analyzed by Peter Hook
Hindi at SU
Hindi Electronic Dictionary
Hindi Lesson 1Ukindia
Hindi Links
Hindi page at UPenn. (incl. good script fonts)
Hindi Program at Penn
Hindi Vowels Lesson 1 Part-1
Hindi-English-Hindi software dictionaries. Word translation and reverse translation in Hindi-En
Hindi_Urdu lessons online at Syracuse
Index of _indiangallery
Index to Mellon Project
India Today
Learn Hindi Tutor CD, To learn the language of India
Rabar Baind, by Anvita Abbi, annoted by Peter Hook
UPenn Page for Hindi Video lessons
Vijay GambhirScroller
Virtual Hindi - Other Stories
Virtual Hindi
VOA.GOV

LITERATURE

A bibliography of Hindi literature in English translation
A Premchand Reader, by Norman Zide (DSAL)
Aaina-E-Ghazal
Abhivyakti - Classic Hindi Magazine Arts, Culture, and Philosophy of India
Anubhuti-A complete classic collection of Hindi Poetry
ANYATHA
Bharat-Darshan's Hindi Short-Stories
Bharat-Darshan, Hindi literary magazine
Ghazal-Darpan Pravesh
Kaavyaalaya_ The House of Hindi Poetry
Krishna Baldev Vaid
Nirmal Verma
Rani Ketaki Ki Kahani - Hindi story by Insha Alla Khan
tehelka.com_'I'm trying to counter the Babhani takeover of the Hindi belt'
tehelka.com_The day Hindi died
The House of Hindi Poetry - Dr. Harivansh Rai Bachchan
The Third Vow or 'Gulfam is Slain'
Webdunia Sahitya_ The paradise of Indian Literature

LANGUAGES == HINDI-URDU

A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English.
Amir Khusro -- a website full of "composite culture"
An Introduction to Hindi and Urdu
FLN 301 Advanced Hindi-Urdu
FLN 302 Advanced Hindi-Urdu II
Hindi Authors
Hindi Electronic Resources - Osaka University of Foreign Studies
Hindi Links
http--www.sasnet.lu.se-panelreports.pdf
Kabir The Mystic Poet --- KabirWeb
Kabir _ The Mystic Poet --- KabirWeb
Language in India -- Hindi_Urdu in British eyes
Panel abstract EASAS conference
Raley, A Teleology of Letters (on Gilchrist)
Rani Ketaki Ki Kahani - Hindi story by Insha Alla Khan
sentences compared in both scripts
tehelka.com_'I'm trying to counter the Babhani takeover of the Hindi belt'
tehelka.com_The day Hindi died
The Tawasin of Mansur Al-Hallaj (he visits India 905)
Varieties of the Arabic Script
Yamada Hindi-Urdu WWW Guide

LANGUAGES == NORTHERN

BENGALI

BENGALI SCRIPT SITES

Bengali Lesson 1Ukindia
Century Sangbad
Ganashakti _ Power of the People
Parabaas - Complete Bengali Webzine
Pratidin Online
SAMBAD -- Bengali Internet Daily

LANGUAGE

Bengali language resources_ Mumbai_Bombay pages
Bengali-language
Dimock intermediate text online
Table of Contents -- Digital South Asia Library
Tagore
Virtual Bangladesh Virtual Bangladesh Dictionary

LITERATURE

Bengali Literature
Bengali Poetry
Calcuttaweb - Najrulgeeti - Songs of Kazi Najrul Islam
Clinton Seely's U of Chicago homepage
Kathan
Parabaas - Complete Bengali Webzine
Parabaas Translation - Bengali Literature Online
Sonartari-- poetry in translation
Sukumar Ray _ A Tribute

GUJARATI

All About Indian People
Gujarat Samachar - The Leading Gujarati Daily
Gujarati language resources_ Mumbai_Bombay pages (fonts, software, literature etc)
Narmad My Life_ Life of Indian writer and poet Narmad, depicted in a Gujaratimusical play
Some Gujarati language resources
Ukindia Learn Gujarati Page

MARATHI

Anne Feldhaus on her experience as a Marathi speaker
Kavya Kusumavali
Lokmat Marathi International Edition
Marathi Songs,Gadima,Geet-Ramayan,Literature
Tukaram 17th Marathi poet - Dehu, Pune, Maharashtra, India . Multilingual website

ORIYA

Oriya home page
Oriya News in Sambad
P. C. Mishra, _A Primer in Oriya Characters_

PUNJABI

5abi - Gyan Ratan - Punjabi Lessons
APNA, Academy of the Punjab in North America
ukindia punjabi lesson 1
YUGANTAR PUNJAB
Untitled Document
APNA, Academy of the Punjab in North America: An organization to promote Punjabi language, literature, culture and harmony among all Punjabis

LANGUAGES == PERSIAN

ANALYSIS AND RESEARCH

Encyclopaedia Iranica
Information About Zoroastrianism
Muhsin Makhmalbaf on Afghanistan
Online English - Persian Dictionary
Welcome to Isfahan!
World of Traditional Zoroastrianism

IMAGES

Light and Water (Afghanistan)
Princeton Shahnama Project - Homepage
THE IRANIAN_ Arts, painting, artists' tribute to Shahnameh
The Iranian_ Arts, Photography, Bakhtiaris
The Iranian_ Arts_ Homes of Isfafan, Nasrollah Kasraian
THE IRANIAN_ Sponsors, Ghajar paintings, Rose Ghajar
Welcome to Isfahan!

LANGUAGE

Meem Connection (mystical and numerical meanings of letters)
Online English - Persian Dictionary
Online Persian Languange Learning Resource
Pars Translator - Online - Translation
Persian Home Page
Steingass, Francis Joseph, 1825-1903. A Comprehensive Persian-English Dictionary, Including the Arabic Words and Phrases to be
Steingass, Francis Joseph, 1825-1903. A Comprehensive Persian-English Dictionary, Including the
The Names of the Persian Alphabet
The Persian Alphabet
Yamada Language Center Persian WWW guide
Yek Ruz Dar Rostamabad-e Shemiran
Nazem - Title Page
The Jon Safari Site

LITERATURE

Amir Khusro -- a website full of "composite culture"
Book I
Corrections
Firdausi free web books, online
Hafiz Life & Poetry @ HafizOnLove.com
Hafiz Life & Poetry @ HafizOnLove.com
Index for Dar-al-Masnavi
Medieval Sourcebook Sa'di (1184-1292) The Gulistan, c. 1256 CE
Medieval Sourcebook_ Sa'di (1184-1292)_ The Gulistan, c. 1256 CE
Muslim WakeUp! Chaste Love to Explicit Sex Three Types of Arabic Love Poetry
Nizami_ Layla and Majnun
Persian Literature (Columbia Univ)
Persian Literature
Persopedia - Homepage
Poetry Home Page
Risalah Ruh-i Sharif by Sultan Bahu
Rumi, ghazal 598 Arberry 74 Barks 40
The Internet Classics Archive The Epic of Kings by Ferdowsi
The Internet Classics Archive _ The Epic of Kings by Ferdowsi
THE IRANIAN_ Features, interviews index
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam ~ presented by ELF
Shahnama Collection - About the Project
Packard Humanities Institute: Persian Literature in Translation
PERSIAN STUDIES

LANGUAGES == PROGRAMS

LCTL_ Course Offerings for LCTLs
Study Abroad Asia WWW VL
ANU - Centre For Continuing Education - Canberra, ACT 0200. Tel: 6125 2892 Fax: 6125 5938
South Asia Summer Language Institute (SASLI)
South Asian Language and Resource Center: South Asia Language Resource Center

LANGUAGES == SANSKRIT

Richard Lariviere, lecture on theory of philology
Sanskrit Knowledge-Systems Project

LANGUAGES == SOUTHERN

KANNADA

Ambikatanayadatta
Kamat's Potpourri- Kannada Writers
Kannada saahithya.com
Kannada Saahitya PuTa
Prajavani Kannada daily
Sanjevani World Edition
Vishva Kannada
Welcome to Udayavani

KONKANI

General Konkani culture_language site
GOA WORLD Learning Konkani
Kamat's Potpourri- The origin and development of theÃ‚Â Konkani language

MALAYALAM

A Bibliography of Malayalam literature in English translation
Deshabhimani Daily
kerala
Kovilan Home Page
Malayala Manorama Daily Newspaper
Malayalam
Mathrubhumi Daily - Home Page
Varamozhi Transliteration based Malayalam Editor
www . ente malayalam . org

TAMIL

ANALYSIS AND RESEARCH

BBC World Service - Tamil Home Page
Dinamani.com - Home Page
Institute of Asian Studies (Madras)
Institute of Indology and Tamil Studies - Kolam
Passions of the Tongue Language Devotion in Tamil India, 18911970
Professional weeping in Tamil folk performance, Paul Greene
Tamil Electronic Library
Tamil folklore studies, by Eric Miller
Tamil Heritage Foundation

LANGUAGE SITES

Tamil Script Learner's Manual
Tamil script Lesson 1 ukindia
Tamil Virtual University
Thisaigal
Web Site for Learning and Teaching Tamil

TELUGU

Andhra Prabha Telugu News Daily
Deccan Chronicle on the web
Edward C. Hill, A Primer in Telugu Characters
Telugu Literary - A Contribution of the India Network Foundation
Teluguworld
Vaartha

LANGUAGES == URDU

ANALYSIS AND RESEARCH

A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English.
A Native Publishing House in India (Naval Kishor Press), 1887
Adabi Duniya, sample cover page, extremely high resolution
Aditya Behl's diss on medieval romance
AIPS home page
Dr.Ebadat Brelvi
http--lcweb.loc.gov-catdir-cpso-romanization-urdu.pdf
M.J.Warsi
Major Urdu journals held by Urdu Research Library Consortium
National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language
Ralph Russell on Urdu in India since Independence
the Annual of Urdu Studies
The Urdu Research Centre in Hyderabad
U-TRANS - Putting Urdu in Web pages
Welcome to Sang-e-Meel Publications
_Nets of Awareness_ Urdu Poetry and its Critics_ by Frances W. Pritchett
Urdu and Indian nationalism
Urdu & secularism

GENERAL SITES

BBC World Service - Urdu Home Page
Pakistanibooks.com - Online Pakistani Book Store
Pehchaan - The Worlds Biggest Urdu Portal - Pakistan Zindabad.
U-hoo!!! Urdu's answer to Yahoo!
UrduDost.com - the website for every Urdu lover.
urdustan.com _ Urdu Nation
Voice of Toronto.Com
Welcome to Sang-e-Meel Publications
Welcome to www.urdulife.com
___.________ oldest website of Urdu
???.???????? oldest website of Urdu
Untitled Document

LANGUAGE LEARNING

A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English.
English-Urdu dictionary
FLN 301 Advanced Hindi-Urdu
FLN 302 Advanced Hindi-Urdu II
Mir in Cyberspace
Naim's intro, including script
Naim's intro, vol. 2
Naim's reader of prose and poetry
PNS - URDU
Tarjuman-ul-Quran_ Islamic Urdu e-magazine
Ukindia Learn Urdu Page
UrduClassic, A Classical Urdu Web Site!!
UrduWord.com Home Page
Login
betterurdu » home

LITERATURE

Chowk Opinions analysis discussion on India Pakistan South Asia
Coss_Monographs
First Urdu Internet Magazine, From Toronto
HOME PAGE www.eurdubazaar.com The Best Urdu Site on the Net
Home Page
index
jadeedadab.com
Mohammad Hameed Shahid Fiction Writer & Critic
U R D U S T A N urdu ka nasha ____ __ ___
Urdu Authors_ The South Asian Literary Recordings Project (Library of Congress)
Urdu Book Review bi-monthly
Urdu Manzil
Welcome to Mata-e-Zamir
Welcome to UrduHamasr.dk
Welcome to Urdudan - خوش آمدید ۔ اردوداں
A multi-faceted talent
ibnesafi.info
Shash o Panj: Amīr Hamza in angrezi
Desicritics.org: An Injured Tom-Cat In a Gunny Sack - Translation of a Saqi Farooqi Poem
Shabkhoon
سمت ۔۔۔۔۔اردو تحریر میں اردو کا پہلا آن لائن ادبی جریدہ

POETRY

Abhay's Aashi'yaana - Urdu Poetry and Ghazal
Aleem's poems in his own voice
Amir Khusro Website_ qawwalis
Attiya Dawood's website
Britannica India on the ghazal
EDSITEment - Lesson Plan
Ghadar Feb 2002
Google Search_ alt.language.urdu.poetry
Interview with Gulzar
Mehfil-e-Mushaira -- Main page
Mehfil-e-Mushaira -- Poets
Mehfil-e-Mushaira
Muslim WakeUp! Chaste Love to Explicit Sex Three Types of Arabic Love Poetry
The Hindu Simply, a poet
The Poetry Of 'No' OutLookIndia.com
Urdu Image Bank
Urdu poetry (ghazal) & hindi poetry archives-mailing list. Urdu dictionary.
Urdu Poetry Archive - Ghazals, nazms, Urdu poetry related articles, mailing lists, and more!
UrduPoint Network, Urdu Poetry
http://asnic.utexas.edu/asnic/pages/sagar/spring.1995/akbar.hyder.art.html
Taste of Tears
bahadur shah zafar

PROSE FICTION

A great site -- a batch of 20th c. stories in script
Meghdutam interviews Jogindar Pal
National Manto Seminar
Riffat Murtaza's Page!
The Quilt, by Ismat Chughtai
Urdu Short Story Toba Tak Singh By- Sadat Hasan Manto
Viewsunplugged.com Arts Short Story The Big Man By Kashi Nath Singh translated By Moazzam She
Viewsunplugged.com Arts Short Story The Chief Accountant of the Pyramid by Naiyer Masud Trans

URDU NEWS SOURCES

BBC World Service - Urdu Home Page
Daily Jang Pakistan
Latest Urdu Releases, Gov't of India
The Munsif Daily, Hyderabad (India)
The Siasat Daily, Hyderabad (India)
VOAnews.com

001 == M A P S

EARLY MAPS

Ancient Maps Cover Page
Antique Maps of India
Antique, historic, rare and old maps. Maps of Asia.
Earlymaps.com
Library of Congress map division

REGIONAL MAPS

Dhow Ports in the Indian Ocean
Ecritures _ Ecritures indiennes _ geographie
Indian Ocean region-- small and clear
Linguistic_demographic maps
Map Index from Huntington Archives site
Map of Central Asia with options
Very big Indian Ocean map, political

SOUTH ASIA MAPS

A historical map of Varanasi - Kailasanatha Sukula's Mirror of Kashi (Kashidarpana, 1876)
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
Indian Maps, States and Union Territories
Indian road map with distance calculator
Lonely Planet - India Map
Series of historical maps (click Maps)
South Asia regional map-- large, detailed
The same detailed regional map -- another site

WORLD MAPS

AskAsia Map & Timeline Library
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
Gardiners Atlas of English History - Table of Contents
Have you ever considered vexillology_
How about national anthems_
Lonely Planet website
Maps @ nationalgeographic.com
Multimap.com_ Online Maps to Everywhere.
Terraserver Home
UT Library Online - Perry-CastaÃ±eda Map Collection - World Maps
World History (world maps and timelines)
Xerox PARC map, clickable for scale increase

001 == O V E R V I E W S

India, Ancient, Medieval, Colonization, Philosophy, Culture
Indian Emperors_ a political history
interknowledge.com
itihaas.com
Kamat's Potpourri, Indian nationalist miscellany
Manas_ India and Its Neighbors" by Vinay Lal, UCLA
Social Movements in South Asia
The Gov't of India's take on Indian history
World Cultures; Richard Hooker's educational site
www.historyofindia.com
www.investinindia.com
Silent Readers_Ch2 from History of Reading
"India and South Asia: A Short History"

001 == I M A G E S

PHOTO COLLECTIONS

Gallery
India Home Page
India Photo Gallery
India photos
India_ Life
New Delhi -- images by Manhar
Travels in Jodhpur and Jaisalmer
W E L C O M E T O D E E N D A Y A L . C O M
Worldisround - India
www.PhotoSeoul.com-india- ... Photos of India
IndiaMike.com- India Travel Forum

COMMERCIAL IMAGE SOURCES

Antique prints - India and Sri Lanka
Arts Indian Atelier_ Bringing Indian Art & Craft to the Web
artsindia.com - Contemporary Indian Art and Crafts Gallery
Asian Art Galleries on Asianart.com
Christie's _ Home
cloudband.com dedicated to rugs, carpets, textiles, Asian art and tribal art.
Exotic India Art
John Eskenazi Ltd.
Khazana_ India
Lakshmi International - Hindu Deity devotional paintings
Shilpa Arts and Crafts, Jaipur
Sotheby's
artnet - The Art World Online

MUSEUMS ETC.

Ames Library, Univ. of Minnesota
Armchair travel in India_ the stereoscopic experience
artsmia_ Permanent Collection
ASIA SOCIETY THE COLLECTION IN CONTEXT
Asia Society, New York
Berger Foundation -- small separate lot
British Library Images Online
CETI_ AIIS - Architecture and Sculpture Index
CETI_ AIIS - Miniature Painting Index
George Eastman House India Series
Historical
Home Page_ American Memory from the Library of Congress
http--www.bergerfoundation.ch-wat4-museum1museum=Hira&babel=en&cd=7219-3282-01517219-3282-0150&country=Inde&col=pays
Indian Museum, Calcutta
Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts
Islamic Architecture Digital Resources
Kimbell Art Museum
Serving the Guest_ A Sufi Cookbook & Art Gallery
The Digital South Asia Library-Images
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
World's Transportation Commission Photograph Collection
A mapped display of some of the earliest photographs
Berger Foundation -- small separate lot
Explore the Sacred Sites of world religions
Reproductions of old postcards
The BERGER Collection
http://www.bergerfoundation.ch/wat4/museum1?museum=Hira&babel=en&cd=7219-3282-0151:7219-3282-0150&country=Inde&col=pays
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

TRAVELOGUES WITH PICTURES

City of Boiled Beans [Bangalore]
Diary of trip to Central Asia and India
Kamat's Potpourri _ Rajasthan Travelogue - A Distant Journey
Kamat's Potpourri _ Stories of Bastar Travels
Nick Mleczko's Travel Page

001 == R E S E A R C H = S I T E S

ART HISTORY SITES

Art History Resources on the Web -- index
Asian Arts, the online journal
Devi_ The Great Goddess
Great Mirror Photos, Captioned Pictures, Travel Gallery Images - The Great Mirror
Ancient India
Asienhaus Essen_ Exhibition of photography - Truck painting in Pakistan
Bangladeshi Arts of the Ricksha, by Joanna Kirkpatrick
Historical Architecture of Asia (for comparison)

EDUCATIONAL SITES

A Virtual Village
Artists of Nathadwara
Berkeley Art Museum_ Indian Deities, Courtiers, & Lovers
Chowk_ Where Ideas and Identities Intersect
Devi_ The Great Goddess
Education Index
Indian Empire supplementary materials
MANAS_ India and Its Neighbors, by Vinay Lal, UCLA
Poetry from All Over
SAWNET_ South Asian books for kids
Some basic texts of world history online
South Asia Citizens Web
The Shah Bano Case
World Cultures, Richard Hooker's site, WSU
World History _ HyperHistory

GENERAL LITERARY SITES

Bibliography of South Asian women writers
Bibliomania_ Drama, Poetry, and Ancient Classics
Chowk_ An Internet Community with an Interactive Magazine,
Foundation of SAARC Writers and Literature
Himal, a magazine about South Asia
Katha Home Page
Monsoon Magazine_ Main Menu
Postcolonial Literature
SALIDAA
SASIALIT_ Literature of South Asia and the Indian diaspora
Somnath Hore documents the Tehbhaga movement, 1946
The Literary Web, a global resource site
The New York Review of Books

GENERAL SCHOLARLY SITES

AIIS Home Page
AIPS home page
Alliance for a Secular and Democratic South AsiaHome
Ames Library, Univ. of Minnesota
Authors listed chronologically free web books, online
BAS Online
Bureau of South Asian Affairs
Documents and Texts Index Page
EAWC (Exploring Ancient World Cultures) search ndex
Ideas and writings on South Asia (UVa site)
INDOLOGY main menu
Library of Congress Home Page
Penn's South Asian archives (including AIIS slides)
Project South Asia, Missouri Southern State College
South Asia Web Links - Lubin Website
The British Library
The Digital South Asia Library
Tim Lubin's South Asia page (esp. religion)
Univ. of Texas site

NEWS MEDIA

BBC News _ South Asia
CNN, Time, and Asiaweek on South Asia
MANUSHI
newsASIA_ excerpts from the region's newspapers
NPR Online
SAJA_ South Asian Journalists Association
Sanjha Qalam (Shared Pen) South Asia's shared cultural diversity
South Asia Electronic Journals and Newspapers
South Asian Media Net. A news and views portal.
tehelka.com - news. views. all the juice.
The Economist
Welcome to Frontline
Welcome to Indian Media Site - Compiled by Ashok Upadhyay

SPECIFIC SCHOLARLY SITES

Archaeology Magazine
Benares-Bibliographie
British Library Online Newspaper Archive
General site on Indian archaeology
Harappa_ The Indus Valley and the Raj
Human Rights in South Asia
Pancanga (version 3.04) for date conversion
Rulers -- great site for worldwide records
South Asian Diaspora
The Foreign Exchange of Hate IDRF and the American Funding of Hindutva
The history of Indic languages and scripts
The Huntington Archive Home Page
Trade and Environment (TED) - South Asia Cases
UNESCO Sector for Culture Caravanserais
Works by women in South Asia

001 == T I M E L I N E S

SOUTH ASIA TIMELINES

A hindutva timeline
A hyperlinked timeline
An illustrated general overview
An Indian nationalist timeline
Columbia South Asian timeline
Met Timeline _ South Asia, 1000 B.C.- 1 A.D.
South Asian Media Net
U. Penn timeline, pre-1850

WORLD TIMELINES

Hellenistic monarchs and dynasties
TimeMap Project Â® Home Page
World History (world maps and timelines)

002 == P R E H I S T O R Y

A show of prehistoric rock carvings
Cave drawings at Kharwai, Madhya Pradesh (AIIS slides)
Indus Valley rock art of various periods
Met Timeline _ South Asia, 8000 - 2000 B.C.
Plate Tectonics
Prehistoric Rock Paintings of Bhimabetaka
Rock carvings and inscriptions along the Karakorum Highway
Scenes of head-hunting in rock art
Vidarbha megaliths as burial markers

003 == I N D U S = V A L L E Y = (c2500 - c1500 BCE)

Did ancient climate and vegetation play a role_
Excavations at Lothal, near Ahmedabad
Harappa-- The ancient Indus Valley -- index page
index.html
On the Dancing Girl; and Indus bronze work
Silver Grave Goods from the Sohr Damb near Nal, Pakistan
Steve Farmer's material
The Indus Civilization
The Indus Riddle, an overview by India Today
UPM Research Seal Impressions Discovered in West India
UPM Research: Seal Impressions Discovered in West India

004 == V E D I C = W O R L D = (c1200 - c500 BCE)

Contrarians-- Hindutva, etc. etc

20,000 years ago the Aryans left the North Pole...
A celebration of the ancient Sarasvati River
Ancient Indian aircraft were mistaken for UFOs
Aryan Invasion Theory
Atlantis was just a late stage of Vedic knowledge
Bhagwan Gidwani, "The Return of the Aryans"
Clyde A. Winters
David Frawley_ it ALL originated in India
Dravidian as the source for everything
Earliest Vedic dating_ 10,000 BCE
Harappa was "the last glow of the Vedic age..."
Home Page of Bharatvani Institute
Homepage of Bharatvani Institute
Homepage
IndiaStar book-review_ Vedic Glossary on Indus Seals by N.Jha
Madhusudan Mishra's script decipherment claims
One of many claims to have deciphered the seals-- N. Jha
Questioning the Aryan Invasion Theory by Klaus Klostermaier
Rediff On The NeT_ The Rediff Interview_ Dr Subhash Kak
River of Heaven, by David Frawley
Sanskrit decoded as a form of Basque
Sarasvati Sindhu Civilization Home Page
Sarasvati Sindhu Civilization_ Home Page
SAVING THE ACADEMIC WORLD
Sword of Truth Editorial Page
The Hindu Universe - Hindu Resource Center
The Proto-Shiva seal as deciphered by N. Jha
The Rg Veda was completed in 3,700 BCE
Vandalism Sanctified By Scripture OutLookIndia.com
Vedic Astrolgy Article by Frawley
http://www.flonnet.com/fl1502/15021100.htm
Virtual assaults
Kaaba a Hindu Temple?
Sarasvati Sindhu Civilization: Home Page: All research work related to sarasvati

GENERAL VEDIC

A site devoted to Sama Veda
Agnicayana - Multimedia Project
EJVS - Michael Witzel - Looking for the Heavenly Casket
Electronic Journal of Vedic Studies
How you can perform your own agnihotra
http--www.ucl.ac.uk-~ucgadkw-indology.html
INDOLOGY Main Menu
More strange Vedic links... and more... and more...
Orality vs. Written Text in Vedic lit
Sarasvati in the Atharva Veda, by P. V. Pathak
Scroll down some pages for a very helpful Veda chart
Software for doing "Vedic astrology"
Studies on Vedic rituals, A. Hayakawa
The "Vedavid" website -- fancy but difficult to use
The horse in ancient world history
The Vedas
The Vedic Experience, Prof. Raimon Panikkar
Veda Prasar Samiti
Vedas and Upanishads by Sanderson Beck
Vedic altars -- an architectural analysis
Vedic on Parade, by Timothy Lubin
VEDIC TEXTS and more
VEDRELPR.DOC
Witzel on the "indigenous Aryan" theory (PDF form)
EJVS - Current and Back Issues
Somayaagam 2003

INDO-EUROPEAN LINGUISTICS AND SCRIPTS

Ancient Scripts of the World_ Home
Ancient Scripts of the World_ Writing Systems
AncientScripts.com
Even relatively recent mss. can be hard to identify...
Institute For Oriental Study, Thane
Omniglot - a guide to writing systems
On The Origin Of The Early Indian Scripts, R. Salomon
Peoples and languages in the Pre-Islamic Indus Valley
The history of Indic languages and scripts
The Indo-European Database
the PIE website

Refutations of Hindutva claims

'Sir Vidia Gets It Badly Wrong' OutLookIndia.com
28 October 2000 _ Saffron touch given to Aryan, Harappan link
A Bushy Tail_ The Piltdown Horse-- OutlookIndia.com
A Hindutva polemic (Zydenbos)
Edwin Bryant responds to Klostermaier
Excellent Witzel overview article
For comparison_ other cultural fakes and frauds
Golden Age Hallucinations OutLookIndia.com
Horseplay in Harappa
Postmodernism, Hindu nationalism and `Vedic science'
Somanatha and Mahmud
Steve Farmer on the `pseudo-chariot'
Steve Farmer's website
Temple desecration and Indo-Muslim states
Temple desecration in pre-modern India
The 9,500 year old city under the sea...
The Foreign Exchange of Hate IDRF and the American Funding of Hindutva
The Hindu _ A maritime Rigveda_ How not to read ancient texts
The Rise of Islam and the Bengal Frontier, 1204-1760
KNOWLEDGE AND EDUCATION
Chicago Tribune | Intelligent design loses
Now, Multicultural Hindutva : outlookindia.com
Siliconeer: February 2006
indiantruth.org
Campaign to Stop Funding Hate
East West Cultural Institute - Books on the Aryan Migration Debate
East West Cultural Institute - Internet Resources on the Aryan Migration Debate

RIG VEDA (c1200 BCE)

A Zoroastrian hymn to the sun
Avestan texts from Iran-- are there parallels_
http--www.people.fas.harvard.edu-~witzel-MT-Substrates.pdf
Hymns to Agni
mss page of Granth Sahib
ReadMe English
Rig Veda, by R. L. Kashyap (PDF format)
RIG VEDA, trans. Ralph Griffith
Selections from Rig Veda, trans. Michael Myers
The Cosmic Sacrifice hymn
The Rigvedic River Saraswati
Zoroastrian Sacred Texts, so close to Vedic

UPANISHADS (c1000-500 BCE)

Books By Rajaji - Upanishads - Index

005 == T H R O U G H = T H E = C E N T U R I E S

0000's _ (=1st c) _ CE

Did Saint Thomas die in South India_

00000's ___ BCE

-0000's _ (=1st c) _ BCE

Parthian Stations; about trade routes to India
Roman historian Justin on the Parthians

-0100's _ (=2nd c) _ BCE

Met definition Page _ Shunga Dynasty (ca. 2nd-1st century B.C.)
Met Timeline _ Shunga Dynasty Map_ enlarged view

-0200's _ (=3rd c) _ BCE

Early Old Tamil begins to develop

-0300's _ (=4th c) _ BCE

Hellenistic Age Outline Chronology (for comparison)
The sacred bodhi tree planted in Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka (4th item)

-0400's _ (=5th c) _ BCE

BUDDHA c480-c400-- Theravada

Pilgrimage to the Holy Sites of the Buddha
The Dating of the Historical Buddha, L. S. Cousins
Visit Lumbini, the Buddha's birthplace

Herodotus has earliest Greek references

109 Reconstruction of Herodotus World Map (ca. 450 B.C.)
Herodotus on India
Herodotus on the Web
Internet Classics text

-0500's _ (=6th c) _ BCE

Greek sculpture (for comparison)
The earliest Indian coins -- from janapadas

0100's _ (=2nd c) _ CE

Rudradaman, Gautamiputra Satkarni (Parliament mural)

0200's _ (=3rd c) _ CE

Appollonius of Tyana supposedly imagines India, 220
Coins of western and central dynasties, dates range over several centuries

0300's _ (=4th c) _ CE

The Tooth Relic Temple is built in Anuradhapura

0400's _ (=5thc) _ CE

Buddhist Gandharan Manuscript
Map of the Gupta empire, c400
Varahamira in mural, Parliament House

0500's _ (=6thc) _ CE

ARCHITECTURE

"Temples Along the Indus," by Michael Meister
Buddhist monuments of Harwan, Kashmir, Plates XV-XLII
Elephanta, Berger collection
Jaina temples, Deogarh (AIIS slides)
Mauriyar Matha, Rajgir (AIIS slides)
Salt Range Temples, Pakistan

SCULPTURE

BUDDHIST

Seated Buddha from Patan, Nepal
Standing Buddha from Bihar
Standing Buddha from Patan, Nepal

HINDU

Ganesha
Krishna lifting Mt. Govardhan, from Cambodia
Meditating Brahma from Chapagaon, Nepal

0600's _ (=7th c) _ CE

Harsha mural in Parliament House
Travels of Hsuan-Tsang, 627-643
Varahamira in mural, Parliament House

0700's _ (=8th c) _ CE

Goddess riding lion, from Tajikistan; shades of Durga
Indians and Arabs collaborate to invent numbers, especially 0

0800's _ (=9th c) _ CE

"Gopala elected king," Parliament House mural
A Sanskrit royal inscription from U.P., 828
Diamond Sutra becomes world's earliest dated printed book, 868
The Sharada Script_ Origin and Development

0900's _ (=10th c) _ CE

South Indian medieval coins (dates range over whole period)

1000's _ (=11th c) _ CE

"Somanatha and Mahmud," by Romila Thapar
Somnath -- a Hindutva-based explication

1100's _ (=12th c) _ CE

Kalhana's Rajatarangini (1148-49)
Khvajah Mu`in ud-Din Chishti (1138_9-1236)
Shankara and Ramanuja in Parliament House mural
The Jews of Cochin were there by 1100
The Jews of India

1200's _ (=13th c) _ CE

Genghis Khan_ Timeline @ nationalgeographic.com
Welcome to The Realm of The Mongols!

1300's _ (=14th c) _ CE

Firoz Shah Tughluq in Parliament House mural
Ibn Battuta - Rihla

1400's _ (=15th c) _ CE

Discoverers Web_ Ludovico di Varthema
The Spice Trade - A Taste of Adventure

1500's _ (=16th c) _ CE

A Quick Guide to the World History of Globalization
Early Modern India and World History (c1500-1800), by John Richards
Sher Shah Suri in Parliament House mural
Tamil Christian texts on palm leaves from the Vatican collection
The life of Saint Francis Xavier

1600's _ (=17th c) _ CE

A comparative study of textile production and trading
Guru Gobind Singh in Parliament House mural
Opium use begins in India, and is taken over by the British
Shivaji and Ramdas, mural in Parliament House
Tukaram Home Page

1700's _ (=18th c) _ CE

ARCHITECTURE

Jantar Mantar(s), by Jai Singh

Delhi Jantar (Berger Collection)
Hawkshaw 49_ Raja Jai Singh's Observatory Benares
Jantar Mantar, Delhi, 1725

CALLIGRAPHY

Calligraphy example by Shamsuddin
Calligraphy examples from the Lady Coote album, 1780

FINE ARTS

Flowers underfoot, Mughal carpets at the Met
Mysore royal jewelry
Silk-embroidered prayer mat
Worcester Art Museum - Ewer and Basin

Marathas

Portrait of a Maratha nobleman, c1800 (AIIS slide)
The Mughals_ The Marathas

PAINTING

HINDU

Durga Killing a Buffalo Demon
SDMA_ Kalki Avatar of Vishnu
SDMA_ Mendicant Shiva
SDMA_ Rawat Jaswant Singh at the Shrine of Srinathji
Shiva, Vishnu, and Brahma...
SILS Art Image Browser_ Details_ Ambika (Durga) Fighting with the Demon, Nishumbha
SILS Art Image Browser_ Details_ Rama, Lakshmana and Sugriva in Conference
SILS Art Image Browser_ Details_ The Holy Family_ Siva and Parvati
SILS Art Image Browser_ Details_ Vishnu and Warrior
The Holy Family
Two illustrations of the "Panchakyane"

KRISHNA

Black Peacock - Gita-Govinda - Thus Arose the Love of Radha and Krishna
BnF _ image _ Bhagavatapurana, manuscrit de 1793, ÃƒÂ©criture nagari
Infant Krishna carried across Jumna (ZOOM)
Krishna holding Mt. Govardhan
Krishna Rebuked by a Lady
Krishna-lila scenes, Deccani miniatures (AIIS slides)
Lotus-Clad Radha and Krishna
Radha and Krishna Embracing
Radha and Krishna on a Balcony
Radha and Krishna Walk to a Tryst