Primary source documents -- old newspapers, books, manuscripts, government documents, memoirs, etc. -- may be available individually in their original published or unpublished form. Others are reproduced in reprints or microforms or extracted in compilations. It is these reproductions and compilations that usually will bear the subject sub-heading "sources." Take a look at the results of adding the subject search for "sources" to a keyword search for "India" in EUCLID or RLIN, the combined catalog for most major research university libraries or Worldcat, the union catalog for all libraries.

Primary sources in their original form may not be so conveniently cataloged, however. Some may lie uncataloged or minimally cataloged in private archives, museums, or even special manuscript collections of libraries. One major archive of primary documents on South Asia is the India Office of the British Library. The University of Chicago has indexed their collection of official government documents from pre- and post-independence India. Check Columbia University's list of major collections around the world. Indology has a list of machine-readable texts or collections in Indic languages.