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Colonial India primary source databases

Submitted on Mon, 2010-4-12 at 10:08 am
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In the past year or so we have licensed access to two online collections of primary sources put together by the Adam Matthew company in the U.K. and organized around the theme of empire.  "Empire Online" includes material from libraries and archives around the world and its thematic scope extends beyond the British Empire and South Asia.  "India, Raj and Empire" contains documents from the National Library of Scotland.  Documents in both collections are strongly indexed with metadata categories.  They are not full text searchable -- they say for pedagogical reasons that optimize the learning experience for undergrads.  We now have the individual documents or document groups in those collections cataloged in EUCLID which should offer easier or at least alternative pathways to find and access them.  I've provided links below in case you'd like to scan through the lists.
 
Items with keyword "India" in EUCLID (95 records corresponding to individual documents dating from the early 17th to early 20th centuries)
 
EUCLID records (29 records corresponding to groups of documents organized by source, topic, or language)
 
Tim Bryson, South Asian Studies Librarian

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