India
Background
Encyclopedia Britannica - India
Information on the land, people, economy, administration and social conditions, cultural life, and history.
Basic intelligence on the history, people, government, economy, energy, geography, environment, communications, transportation, military, terrorism, and transnational issues.
An instant guide to the history, politics, and economic background of countries and territories.
Offers a comprehensive description and analysis of the country or region's historical setting, geography, society, economy, political system, and foreign policy.
UofL Government Resource Guide - India
Our Government Resources guide provides an extensive list of articles related to politics, culture, and society
Secondary Sources
Use these databases to find articles and/or essays in scholarly journals and books.
Statistics
UofL Databases
News
UofL Databases
Recommended Titles:
BBC: India
The Kashmir Times
The Hindu (Chennai, India)
The Times of India (Mumbai, India)
Hindustan Times (New Delhi, India)
The Pioneer (New Delhi, India)
Star of Mysore (India)
Early Times (Jammu and Kashmir)
Garhwal Post (Uttarakhand, India)
Imphal Free Press (India)
The Kashmir Observer (Jammu and Kashmir)
Open Access
Visit w3newspapers.com for a full list of Indian newspapers in English and non-English language news media in India.
Books
eBooks
Primary Sources
These databases and websites provide access to digital archival materials such as manuscripts, letters, photographs, moving image and sound materials, artwork, books, diaries, and other artifacts. You can also visit our main pages for Asia and South Asia to find additional databases and resources covering broader regions.
UofL Databases
- Foreign Office Files for India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan, 1947-1980
This collection of files from the Foreign Office (later the Foreign and Commonwealth Office) and Dominions Office focuses on the political and social history of India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, 1947-1980.
- India, Raj and EmpireManuscript collections of the National Library of Scotland on the history of South Asia between the foundation of the East India Company in 1615 and the granting of independence to India and Pakistan in 1947.
Open Access
A collection of rare seminal documents which were influential in the formation of the notions of nation, state and culture during the colonial period.
A collection of books, audio, video, images, and other materials from India, with an emphasis on the works of Mahatma Gandhi.
Websites archived during the general elections in 2009 and 2019.
Official government websites of India providing an overview of the country’s politics, economics, society, and administration at the federal and state levels.
Indian Political and Social Issues Web Archive
News sources, online magazines, blogs, zines, governmental and non-governmental organizations, and international organizations that provide insight on the constantly changing scene of political and social issues in India, South Asia, and diasporic communities.
A free online searchable database of jātakas in Indian texts and art. You can browse stories by textual collection or artistic site, or explore clusters of connected stories that cross between texts and visual depictions.
Lahore University of Management Sciences Digital Library
A research repository that focuses on events, groups, movements and personalities relating to broader historical, political and cultural trends in South Asia, with an emphasis on preserving the accounts of marginalized and subaltern groups.
Lalchand Research Library Ancient Indian Manuscript Collection
Digitized Hindu manuscripts written on palm leaves by scholars over 1,000 years ago.
The Long Emergency: Media and Democracy in India
A digital collection of oral history interviews, films, cartoons, news clippings, government documents, and court judgments related to the time of the Indian Emergency (1975-1977).
Muktabodha Indological Research Institute
Digitized texts from the religious and philosophical traditions of classical India - Śaiva Siddhanta palm-leaf manuscripts written in the Grantha script.
The Northeast India AV Archive
The Northeast India AV Archive is an audiovisual public archive at the Department of Mass Media, St. Anthony’s College, Shillong, India.
People's Archive of Rural India (PARI)
A living journal and archive of published stories, reports, videos, and audios that document the lives and livelihoods of poor and everyday Indians.
Pioneering Punjabis Digital Archive
Video interviews, speeches, diaries, photographs, articles, and letters produced by South Asian immigrants from the Punjab region in north India to California since the turn of the twentieth century.
An open encyclopedic resource on the arts, cultures and histories of India. Sahapedia offers digital content in multimedia format—articles and books, photo essays and video, interviews and oral histories, maps and timelines, authored by scholars and curated by experts.
A digital repository of material culture of the Indian subcontinent, tracing family history and social ethnography through heirlooms, collectibles and objects of antiquity.