A
January 1999 article in the
Times of India by
Amrit Agarwal describes and links many sites about India -
its Internet access organizations, government, politics,
media, and search engines.
Click here to see the article
and its active links. You might also look at
South Asia links as
listed in the recent (Jan 1999)
Asian Studies Newsletter.
Social science researchers will be
interested in two sites: the
Census of India and
Indian journal indexes.
Not all of the 1991 census is available at
the Census site,
but most of the basic national and state statistics
and facts can be found there - and some
interesting maps, too.
You can
search the indexes
of 53 Indian social science,
including the Economic and Political Weekly, and also
the indexes or "Press Clippings" of 14 Indian newspapers at the
OnLine
Indexes of the ISID (Institute for Studies in Industrial Development).
(Netscape browsers do not work well with this site; use only
Microsoft Internet Explorer. This site really is very much
still under construction.) For broader searches in many
Western journals the online
Bibliogrphy of Asian Studies
is very useful.
Four music cassettes have recently arrived from India
and are being cataloged in the Music Library. They include "Hit
Tibetan Songs," Tsering Gyurmey's "Rgyal ba'i bkrin," and
the Rajasthani Sumeramala Pugaliya's "Are ghasa ri roti."
Have a listen of them and other South Asia music from the
Music
Library or the film song cassettes from
Clemons Library.
A fuller index of the titles in 111 volume
Rin chen gter mdzod chen mo (I(Bhu)-Tib-124)
(Encyclopedia of Nyingmapa contempletive
and liturgical practices) has been
listed in a database. This was a summer library project by
B. Tsering and Lobsang Khanrab under Nawang Thokmey's
supervision. The index is viewable on the library's Tibetan
Room computer, though we hope to make it available on the
Web, linked to the
VIRGO record.
Here are some Tibetan links which researchers
might find useful -
Home Page of Tibet
The
Tibetan Collection at University of Michigan, including a
Typology of Tibetan Literature outline under it's
Collection Index.
There are also the
Tibetan Buddhist Text Download Site
and the links for
Tibetan Texts.
Finally, the controversial Indian
film FIRE as been ordered for Clemons. The summary says
"Banned in India, this film was the first to confront lesbianism in that country."
Have a look at it when it comes in.
Happy cyber re-surfing for information and entertainment

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