South Asian Studies   Tags: religious_studies, south_asia, south_asian_studies, tibetan_studies  

Guide to obtaining email or rss notices about new books, journal tables of contents, database updates, and more.

Guide to collections of original and reproduced, published and unpublished primary sources.

Guide to finding comprehensive and specialized monographic and serial bibliographies at Emory and on the internet. Try the Emory supported bibliographic software programs Endnote and Zotero to gather and store digital materials.

See also biographical encyclopedias.

This general guide works for South Asian materials too.

Online indexes of citations or full-text articles

Directories of academics and non-affiliated scholars in South Asian studies.

Guide to finding those authored at Emory or at other universities here and abroad.

250,000 volumes supported the Seminary's program of training missionaries for work overseas, including South Asia. Many are not cataloged online; check the card catalog at the Theology Library.

online database of ethnographic material and other texts indexed by culture and subject. It is useful to scholars focusing on comparative research, for example, anthropology of religion.

Slide collections and other repositories of still and moving images.

See also Khabar

literary works, ethnographies, videos, government docs, histories, bibliographies, sociological studies, psychological studies, and more.

Guide to current, lapsed, and ceased journals published in or about South Asia and available at Emory or through our online licenses.

Supported languages with links.

Digital and print materials.

Primary sources from colonial India, including publications proscribed by the colonial Government of India. See also the Missions sources on microform.

Guide to finding books on the subject as well as videocassettes, dvd's, and vcd's.

Guide to finding books and recordings.

Publishers and distributors of publications from South Asia.

Good starting point for basic research. Historical, geographical, and cultural dictionaries, encyclop(a)edias, or gazetteers.

See also Columbia University's list of major collections around the world or Google this search phrase: ("south asia" OR "south asian") collection

To find articles that review a book or literature in general on a subject, also try Google or Google Scholar (put the title in quotes and add the word review). Finally, try the comprehensive journal databases via DiscoverE or Databases@Emory.

Major listservs for scholars in the field are RISA-L, Indology, and H-Asia. You can also search their archives and they often will respond to requests for help on research topics.

Links to print and online materials with comprehensive or specialized data on India or South Asia available at Emory. See also this page on the Census of India.

Digital and printed materials in Tibetan religion, history, literature, language, medicine.

Programs, personnel, events

Information about the Major/Minor requirements, Faculty, Events, Courses, Study Abroad, Languages

Program of the Graduate Division of Religion.

Lists of major subject areas with links to acquisitions in EUCLID sorted latest to oldest.

Library resources for selected courses.

"On the relationship between technology and national identities in India from the period of European colonialism in the eighteenth century to the present." Guide to Resources.

Quick guide to finding course-related books and articles

Taught by Prof. Paul Courtright. Guide to search strategies and representative works.

Prof. Paul Courtright. Guide to resources.