From the Digital Asia Library
Return to South Asia Web Sites Worth Considering
Scholarly Institutes
- Centre for ecological Sciences
http://ces.iisc.ernet.in/- Centre for Ecological Sciences of the Indian Institute of Sciences was established in 1982. Besides information on the centre, the site provides access to ongoing research activities at the Indian Institute of Sciences in the area of energy and ecology.
- Centre for the Study of Culture and Society
http://www.cscsban.org/- The centre established in 1996 in Bangalore offers a doctoral level program in cultural studies. The website has an online media archives as well as research projects in cultural studies both completed and ongoing
- ERNET
http://www.eis.ernet.in/ - Family History in India
http://www.ozemail.com.au/~clday/ - IIM Ahmedabad
http://www.iimahd.ernet.in- The Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, founded in 1961, contains information on the different units of the Institute and their activities, the faculty and the research and publication programs.
- Institue of Asian Studies (Chennai)
http://xlweb.com/heritage/asian/#other - Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, New Delhi
http://www.ipcs.org/index.htm- Website of a New Delhi-based India think tank, offering news reports, opinions, and analyses relating to issues of conflict in India, as well as other regions of South Asia. Topics include China, Indian foreign policy, Indo-Pakistan relations, Kashmir, Nuclear issues, Drug trafficking, Environmental threats, Organized crime, Refugees, and Terrorism. Acess to topics also provided by individual South Asian countries.
- International Centre for integrated mountain development
http://www.icimod.org.sg/- The site of the International Centre for Integrated Development dedicated to development of an economically and environmentally sound mountain ecosystem and to improve the living standards of mountain populations. Provides information about sustainable development in the Hindu Kush and Himalayas. Newsletter available from December 1995, annual reports since 1996. Abstracts online of other publications
- LEARN
http://www.ac.lk/- LEARN is a network connecting all the advanced educational and research centres and universities in Sri Lanka
- Literature of the Indian Subcontinent in English
http://landow.stg.brown.edu/post/misc/indiaov.html- Online, searchable bibliography of information and resources of writings using a very broad definition of literature. Arranged by: authors, geography, people, history, political context, economic context, science & technology, religion, visual arts, music, bibliography, postcolonial theory, and PoCO overview. Part of the Postcolonial and Postimperial Web.
- SAPRA India
http://www.subcontinent.com/sapra.html- Website of the Security & Political Risk Analysis India, a New Delhi based independent, private-sector think tank involved in peace and conflict studies in South Asia. Website contains updates, data pages, and monthly bulletin which carries articles on issues that directly or indirectly affect India´s national security scenario. Archive of journal is from July 1995
- SouthAsian resources database
http://recall.curtin.edu.au/Data/saru/sard.htm- The data base provides information on South Asia resources available in Australia and the rest of the world, besides providing links to useful websites from South Asian countries. It also provides links to south asian research publications.
- Tamil Virtual University
http://www.tamilvu.org/coresite/html/cwintrodu.htm- Cyber university oriented to Tamil language and culture. Courses are in Tamil.