Here is a list of a few useful links related to south asia. Keep checking this page as new links get added every now and then. If you would like some link to be included in this page, please send an email to < asap at princeton dot edu > with subject "Link". A short description of the link would be really helpful.

Literature

  • South Asian Literary Recording Project: by Library of Congress, New Delhi office.
  • South Asian Literature discussion mailing list
  • Women Writers from South Asia

    • Music

  • Music India Online: MIO is the largest collection of Indian music on the net, ranging from Classical to IndiPop. No downloads. Only streaming.
  • Raaga: Another site similar to MIO, but you have to listen to an ad before you can listen to any music. But some of the songs thatare missing from MIO database are available here.
  • Pakistani Pop: This site uploads 10 new Pakistani pop songs every month. You can also find reviews of new albums and links to other similar pages here.
  • Khazana: This is an online store selling Books, Jewelry, Music CDs, Music Instruments, Sculptures, art, DVDs and Videos and Textiles from India, Indonesia, Nepal and Thailand.

    Newspapers & Journalism

  • Bangladesh Times
  • Lanka Times
  • Nepali Times
  • Pakistan Times
  • Pakistan Papers
  • The Hindu
  • Times of India
  • South Asian Journalists

    • NGOs working in South Asia

  • Asha For Education
  • Association for India's Development
  • Agami- for basic education in Bangladesh
  • Manavi

    • Urdu

  • Urdu Poetry Archive: A very good Urdu Shayari Site. The ghazals are indexed by Poets and alphabetically and are written in english script. The meaning of some of the more difficult urdu words is given with the ghazal so you don't have to go to a dictionary everytime.
  • Urdu-Hindi-English Dictionary: This site has a good database of words but it's search script is not so good.

    • South Asian College Organizations

    Princeton

    • SASA: South Asian Students' Organization: The undergraduate counterpart of ASAP
    • P-SAT: Princeton South Asian Theatrics.
    • Naacho:Princeton University's Indian Dance Troupe
    South Asian Organizations in other univs. in the US.

    South Asian Studies/Resources

  • South and South East Asian Studies at Columbia University
  • South Asia Resources at Univ of California, Berkeley
  • South Asia Resources at Univ of Chicago
  • Swedish South Asian Studies Network
  • Natural History of South Asia Discussion list
  • South Asia dot net
  • Banglapedia: Encyclopedia of Bangladesh
  • Video Lending Library at Virginia Tech

    • Tourism/information links

    Bangladesh: India: Nepal: Pakistan: Sri Lanka: