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Letters and Despatches related to the lead-up to the War of 1857 |
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(selections
from Chapter 1 of The Indian Mutiny (1893)--added 14 July 2005 |
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A
Defense of Hindu Theism (1817) |
|
(selection
from Raja Rammohun Roy's writings)--added 30 March 2004 |
|
On Concremation [Sati]; A Second Conference
between an Advocate and an Opponent of That Practice (1820) |
|
(selection
from Raja Rammohun Roy's writings)--added 30 March 2004 |
|
Abstract of the Arguments Regarding the Burning of Widows,
Considered as a Religious Rite (1830) |
|
(selection
from Raja Rammohun Roy's writings)--added 30 March 2004 |
|
Remarks
on Settlement in India by Europeans (1832) |
|
(selection
from Raja Rammohun Roy's writings)--added 30 March 2004 |
| Selections
from The Position of Women in Indian Life (1912) |
|
(four chapters
from a book written by the Maharani of Baroda dealing with the
'Woman Movement', professions for women, home professions, and
women's interests)--added 25 March 2003 |
| The
Indian Corps in France
(1918) |
|
(selections
from this British work, focusing on a description of the Indian
Army, as well as its health, during the First World War)--added 25
March 2003 |
| Excerpts
from Letters written in a Mahratta Camp in the Year 1809 |
|
(selections
from Thomas Broughton's classic work)--added 25 March 2003 |
| A
New Geography of the Indian Empire and Ceylon (1926) |
|
(a 1920s
textbook on South Asian geography)--added 25 March 2003 |
| Update
to South Asian Languages Page |
|
(now includes
links to major universities offering instruction in South Asian
languages)--added 2 February 2003 |
| Aihole
Inscription of Pulikeshin II (634-635 CE)
Basim
Copper-Plates of Vindhyashakti II
Chiplun
Copper-Plate Grant of Pulikeshin II (ca. 609-642 CE)
Hathigumpha
Inscription of Kharavela of Kalinga
Garuda
(Heliodorus) Pillar of Besnagar
Junagadh
Rock Inscription of Rudradaman
|
|
(various
single inscriptions)--added 12 September 2002 |
|
Harsha-carita
of Bana |
|
(last four
chapters from the 1897 E. B. Cowell and F. W Thomas
translation)--added 12 September 2002 |
| Xuan
Zang's (Hiuen Tsiang's) Buddhist Records of the Western World |
|
(Books II-V of
the 1906 Samuel Beal translation)--added 26 August 2002 |
|
The
Mahabharata |
|
(condensed
into English verse by Romesh C. Dutt--complete 1910 Everyman's
Library edition)--added 18 March 2002 |
|
Translation
of the Quran |
|
(complete
text--114 chapters--of the 1880 E. H. Palmer translation, Vols. 6
and 9 of the Sacred Books of the East series)--added 18 March
2002 |
|
CIA
Maps of the China-India Border |
|
(three recent
maps of the common border between India and China--also shows part
of the disputed Kashmir territory)--added 12 March 2002 |
|
Physical
Maps of Asia |
|
(two physical
maps of Asia, including an interesting relief map)--added 12 March
2002 |
|
Historical
Maps of Asia |
|
(four
historical maps of Asia covering the period from 1890 to
1920)--added 12 March 2002 |
|
Project
South Asia Digital Image Archive |
|
(performed
extensive revisions to site and added new features)--added 11 &
12 March 2002 |
| Publication
of the premier issue of Teaching South Asia (ISSN
1529-8558) |
|
(Teaching
South Asia is a unique on-line journal, freely accessible
through the Project South Asia Website, devoted exclusively to
promoting the study and teaching of South Asia at the post-secondary
level.)--added 31 December 2001
|
|
One
Hundred Poems of Kabir |
|
(complete text
of the 1915 Rabindranath Tagore translation)--added 5 December 2001 |
|
The
Dhammapada |
|
(complete
text--26 chapters--of the 1881 F. Max Müller translation, Vol. 10
of the Sacred Books of the East series)--added 5 December
2001 |
|
Selections
from Somadeva's Katha Sarit Sagara (The Ocean of Streams of
Story) |
|
(13 selections
from C. H. Tawney's translation)--added 4 December 2001 |
|
Karl
Marx's 'The Indian Revolt" |
|
(full-text of
an article Marx wrote for the New York Daily Tribune about
the War of 1857, criticizing British behavior)--added 18 November
2001 |
|
Harsha-carita
of Bana |
|
(first four
chapters from the 1897 E. B. Cowell and F. W Thomas
translation)--added 18 November 2001 |
|
Kalidasa's
Shakuntala |
|
(full-text of
1912 Arthur W. Ryder translation)--added 18 November 2001 |
|
Letter
from Colonel Campbell to the President and Council of Bombay, 4
October 1783 |
|
(a selection
from G. W. Forrest's edited work, Selections from the Letters,
Despatches, and Other State Papers Preserved in the Bombay
Secretariat. Home Series, Vol. II. Bombay: Government Central
Press, 1887)--added 2 November 2001 |
|
Letter
to President and Council of Bombay, commenting on Tipu Sultan's
plans, 22 October 1783 |
|
(a selection
from G. W. Forrest's edited work, Selections from the Letters,
Despatches, and Other State Papers Preserved in the Bombay
Secretariat. Home Series, Vol. II. Bombay: Government Central
Press, 1887)--added 2 November 2001 |
|
Treaty
of Mangalore between Tipu Sultan and the East India Company, 11
March 1784 |
|
(a selection
from G. W. Forrest's edited work, Selections from the Letters,
Despatches, and Other State Papers Preserved in the Bombay
Secretariat. Home Series, Vol. II. Bombay: Government Central
Press, 1887)--added 2 November 2001 |
|
Excerpts
from John Marshall's Guide to Sanchi (1918)--Chapter I |
|
(chapter 1
offers topographical descriptions of the site)--added 17 October
2001 |
|
Excerpts
from John Marshall's Guide to Sanchi (1918)--Chapter II |
|
(chapter 2 offers historical and artistic
descriptions of the site)--added 17 Oct 2001 |
|
Selections
from Henry Clarke Warren's Buddhism in Translations (1896) |
|
(six
selections from Buddhist texts on the Buddha, as well as the nature
of sentient existence)--added 17 June 2001 |
|
Selections
from The Travels of Ibn Batuta (early 14th century) |
|
(nine selected
chapters relating to South Asia from the Rev. Samuel Lee's 1829
translation)--added 15 June 2001 |
|
Gupta
Inscriptions
Gupta-era
Inscriptions |
|
(23
additional Gupta and Gupta-era inscriptions)--added 14 June 2001
(more than 20 new Gupta and Gupta-era inscriptions
added from the Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum: Inscriptions of
the Early Guptas, Vol. III, London, 1888)--added 24 May 2001
|
|
Charter
Granted by Queen Elizabeth to the East India Company, 31 December
1600 |
|
(original
text giving the Company trading rights in India)--added 22 May 2001 |
|
Images
from F. M. Coleman's Typical Pictures of Indian Natives
(1902) |
|
(23 color
images from F. M. Coleman's 1902 book)--added 28 March 2001 |
|
The
Laws of Manu |
|
(complete 1886
G. Bühler translation, Vol. XXV of the Sacred Books of the East
collection, F. Max Müller, general editor)--added 27 March 2001
|
|
Image
Bank of Sanchi Slides |
|
(more than 40
slides taken at Sanchi, the famed Buddhist site in Madhya Pradesh,
India--includes plans of the site)--added 27 March 2001
|
|
Mountstuart
Elphinstone: Report on the Territories Conquered from the Peshwa
(1821) |
|
(complete 1821
report--details the political, military, and economic situation of
the newly conquered areas, as well as a lengthy discussion of the
Maratha criminal justice system)--added 13 March 2001
|
|
Kautilya's
Arthashastra |
|
(complete 1915 R.
Shamasastry translation)--added 8 March 2001
|
|
Bhagavad
Gita |
|
(complete Sir Edwin Arnold
translation)--added 6 March 2001
|
|
Megasthenes:
Indika |
|
(complete J. W. McCrindle
text)--added 5 February 2001 |
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