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Asia
Events - http://www.asiasource.org/events
Online database for Asia-related exhibitions,
conferences, readings, screenings, performances, and
discussions happening around the world.
Asian
Human Rights Commission - http://www.ahrchk.net
An independent, non-governmental body founded
in 1986 by group of jurists and human rights activists
in Asia. Seeks to promote greater awareness and realisation
of human rights in the Asian region, and to mobilise
Asian and international public opinion to obtain relief
and redress for the victims of human rights violations.
AHRC promotes civil and political rights, as well
as economic, social and cultural rights.
Asian
Studies Virtual Library - http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-AsianStudies.html
This is a comprehensive web site for South Asia. It
includes links to wealth resources for all the South
Asian countries, such as electronic journals, electronic
tests, listservs, web sites, and online bookstores.
Asia
Society - http://www.asiasociety.org
Includes links to Asia Society publications, speeches,
discussion groups, as well as a collection of online
Asian art, sections on art and culture, business and
economics, and politics and society.
Association
of Asian Studies - http://www.aasianst.org
Website of the scholarly, non-profit professional
association, open to all persons interested in Asia.
British
Library's Online Catalogue - http://blpc.bl.uk
Includes materials held in the major Reference
and Document Supply collections of the British Library,
including its extensive South Asian Collections.
Center
for Peace & Justice in South Asia - http://www.egroups.com/list/cjesa
Site hosts an archived, web-based discussion group
on politics, economics and social justice issues.
Digital
South Asia Library - http://dsal.uchicago.edu
Includes an impressive variety of digitized resources
on South Asia, including reference works, bibliographies
and union lists, images, indexes, maps, books and
journals, statistics and internet links. A project
of the Center for Research Libraries at the University
of Chicago in collaboration with the South Asia Microform
Project, the Committee on South Asian Libraries and
Documentation, the Association for Asian Studies,
the Library of Congress, the Asia Society, the British
Library, the University of Oxford, the University
of Cambridge, MOZHI in India, the Sundarayya Vignana
Kendram in India, Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya in Nepal,
and others.
Human
Rights Watch - http://www.hrw.org/
A human rights report on Asia from an independent,
non-governmental organization. Includes: Fragile Democratic
Transitions; International Justice; Violence, Refugees,
and the Internally Displaced; Internal Security Laws;
Human Rights Defenders; The Role of the International
Community; The Work of Human Rights Watch; Afghanistan;
Burma Cambodia; China and Tibet; East Timor; India;
Indonesia; Malaysia; Pakistan; Sri Lanka; Vietnam.
India
Research Center - http://www.indiaresource.org
An extensive set of pages on social movements
in India published by Global Resistance. Includes
statistics on the Indian economy, local effects of
globalization, analysis of neo-liberal economic reforms,
descriptions of anti-corporate and anti-poverty movements,
and environmental actions. Case studies include Enron,
Union Carbide, P&O, Toxic Colonialism, Shell,
CocaCola, World Bank, Child Labor, DuPont, DeBeers,
Mining and Fisheries. Includes a list of social change
organizations as well as interviews with activists
such as Medha Patkar, M.C. Mehta, Vandana Shiva, George
Fernandes, and Prof. Nanjundaswamy, and profiles of
the National Alliance of People's Movements, National
Fishworkers Forum, and IndiaLink.
National
Bureau of Asian Research - http://www.accessasia.org
An engine that searches the webpages of over 300
institutes worldwide which conduct policy-relevant
research on Asia.
NoFSA
South Asia Catalogue - http://www.nofsa.uio.no
Norwegian Forum for South Asia (NoFSA), University
of Oslo, Norway A database of Norwegian South Asia
resources, persons, NGOs, businesses, institutions
etc with a professional interest in South Asia.
South
Asia Consortium West (SACWest)
A group of libraries which share responsibilities
for collection development and management of library
materials. Participating libraries are: University
of California at Berkeley; University of California
at Los Angeles; University of Hawaii at Manoa; the
University of Texas at Austin; and the University
of Washington, Seattle. The mission of the Consortium
is to provide its primary clientele with access to
the widest possible range and depth of South Asia
related materials.
South
Asia Net - http://www.une.edu.au/~arts/SouthAsiaNet/san.htm
Sponsored by the South Asia Studies Association
of Australia, includes online directories of South
Asia scholars, publications and conferences.
South
Asia Studies - http://www.uoit.ca/sas
A Canadian-based web portal, includes links to
Canadian universities, policy issues, and lists of
South Asia experts.
South
Asia WWW Virtual Library (Sarai) - http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/indiv/area/sarai
Hosted by Columbia University, providing links
to the catalogs of most major South Asia collections
in the United States, as well as links to library
catalogs in other countries. It includes information
about individual South Asia library collections, a
directory of South Asianists, bibliographies, lists
of academic jobs and conferences, and travel information.
South
Asian Journalists Association (SAJA) - http://www.saja.org
Based in New York City. Web site includes announcements
of talks, meetings, current news, events calendar,
job listings, and a speaker's bureau, as well as the
SAJA Stylebook for Covering South Asia and the South
Asian Diaspora, which lists words and concepts referring
to South Asia and South Asians.
Sustainable
Development Networking Programme (India) - http://sdnp.delhi.nic.in
A joint initiative of UNDP, IDRC and Ministry
of Environment and Forests, India
United
Nation's Scholars Workstation - http://www.library.yale.edu/un
Developed by the Yale University Library is a
collection of texts, finding aids, data sets, maps,
and links to print and electronic information. Topics
include disarmament, economic and social development,
environment, human rights, international relations,
international trade, peacekeeping, population and
demography.
University
of Virginia Library South Asia Resources - http://www.lib.virginia.edu/area-studies/SouthAsia
A variety of links to newspapers, web sites, electronic
journals and resources.
Web
of On-line Dictionaries - http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/rbeard/diction.html
Includes dictionaries for many South Asian languages.
Yahoo's
Country List - http://dir.yahoo.com/Regional_Information/Countries
Yahoo links to information about most countries
of South Asia. Good for finding general background,
chat rooms and listservs, current news and images.
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