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South Asia Collection

Welcome!  स्वागत! நல்வரவ! ආයුබෝවන්স্বাগত!  સ્વાગત!  ಸ್ವಾಗತ!  సుస్వాగతము!

ترحيب!  خوش آمد!  خوش آمدید!

People

Sarah Calhoun, Assistant Curator, South Asia
International Collections and Research Support Department
Sterling Memorial Library, Room 333

Tel: (203) 432-7795

Yale University Library: South Asia Collection on Facebook

Hint: Start your research on South Asia by following the links in the left sidebar, or scrolling down to the bottom of the page!

Languages

English - Hindi - Urdu - Sanskrit - Pali - Prakrit - Tamil - Bengali - Assamese - Arabic - Sinhala - Gujarati - Telugu - Persian

Countries

Afghanistan - Bangladesh - Bhutan - India - Nepal - the Maldives - Pakistan - Sri Lanka - the Himalayas

Subjects

Yale University Library's holdings of materials on South Asia are strongest and/or fastest growing in the following subject areas:

  • the history of western involvement in South Asia
  • modern India (from 1947)
  • modern literature in English and Hindi
  • classical Sanskrit and Pali literature
  • religion (especially Pali Buddhism, Jainism and Christianity)
  • Bollywood movies
  • agricultural and forestry material (Subject Guide)
  • the Himalayas (Subject Guide)

Materials in other areas, while not as heavily represented, are also actively collected: law, economics, sociology, anthropology, archaeology, fine arts (painting, sculpture, architecture, music), religion (Islam, Hinduism, etc), and philosophy. 

Search!

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Also search:

  • Digital Collections: digitized material from the Beinecke, Manuscripts and Archives, Visual Resource Center, and Yale Daily News
  • Yale Digital Content: digitized material from Yale Center for British Art, Peabody, Yale Art Gallery, and Yale University Library (including Maps Collection)
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  • Borrow Direct: Books from other Ivy League libraries
  • CRL (Center for Research Libraries) / SAMP (South Asia Microform Project): rare material and ephemera
  • CONSALD: other South Asia Library Collections nationally
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