Web Sites
Art and Artifacts
Himalayan Art http://www.himalayanart.org/
Covers painting, sculpture, and textiles and includes more than 17,000 images.
John C. and Susan L. Huntington Archive of Buddhist and Related Art (Ohio State University) http://kaladarshan.arts.ohio-state.edu/
OhioLINK Digital Media Center Art and Architecture Database http://dmc.ohiolink.edu/art/Login
Pen/AIIS South Asia Art Archive http://imagesvr.library.upenn.edu/a/aiis/
Digital images from the Penn/American Institute of Indian Studies Art Archive.
Culture and Religion
Rutgers University Religion Department Virtual Religion Index http://religion.rutgers.edu/vri/index.html
Provides links to digital sources of information about the many Asian religions and moral philosophies including Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, Shinto, and Taoism among others.
Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center Digital Links http://www.tbrc.org/about/links.php
Provides links to Tibetan Buddhist and Himalayan art, culture, and religion.
General
Galileo Internet Resources: Asian Studies (University System of Georgia) http://www.usg.edu/galileo/internet/area/asia.html
This site covers all Asian countries and includes digital sites for maps, news, regional resources, and single-country resources.
Digital South Asia Library (Columbia University, University of Chicago, and The Center for Research Libraries) http://dsal.uchicago.edu/
This site contains several searchable databases including The National Bibliography of Indian Literature and Official Publications of India, as well as photographs, maps, statistical information, and links to other internet resources.
SARI: South Asia Resources Across the Internet (Columbia University/World Wide Web Virtual Library) http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/southasia/cuvl/enews.html
This is a large site for digital resources on South Asia that includes reference materials, books, journals, newspapers, conferences, organizations, and much more.
Southeast Asia Collection Internet Resources (Ohio University) http://www.library.ohiou.edu/libinfo/depts/sea/subjectpage.htm
Includes links to digital information on arts, culture, education, finance, geography government, politics, history and more.
WWW Sites For East Asia (Duke University Perkins Library East Asian Collection)
http://www.lib.duke.edu/ias/eac/eawww.htm
This site includes links to various web resources for East Asia.
Government, Politics, and International Affairs
South Asia Terrorism Portal http://www.satp.org/
“South Asia Intelligence Review Weekly Assessments and Briefings.”
SYBWorld—The Essential Global Reference with Country Profiles http://www.sybworld.com/views/home.html
Statesman’s Year-book online. Provides political, economic, and social information and may be browsed by region or by country.
Women’s Issues
SAWNET: South Asian Women’s NETwork http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/users/sawweb/sawnet/
“Sawnet (South Asian Women's NETwork) is a forum for those interested in South Asian women's issues.”
| Web site content: Sally Moffitt |