Library Collections
College and University Libraries:
Columbia University in the City of New York
South & Southeast Asian Studies
South & Southeast Asian Studies
Cornell University
Languages covered: Sanskrit, Hindi, Bengali, Nepali, Sinhalese, and Tamil (languages taught at Cornell), plus Newari, Marathi, Oriya, and other local languages, by discipline.
Collection strengths: Himalayan materials in all formats, especially strong in Nepal's various ethnicities, including both hill and urban regions. Materials from and on Sri Lanka, and its ethnic groupings. Classical and popular religions of the entire subcontinental formation.
Languages covered: Sanskrit, Hindi, Bengali, Nepali, Sinhalese, and Tamil (languages taught at Cornell), plus Newari, Marathi, Oriya, and other local languages, by discipline.
Collection strengths: Himalayan materials in all formats, especially strong in Nepal's various ethnicities, including both hill and urban regions. Materials from and on Sri Lanka, and its ethnic groupings. Classical and popular religions of the entire subcontinental formation.
Emory University
Languages covered: Sanskrit, Hindi, Telugu, Tibetan
Collection strengths: Language and Literature, History, Religion
Languages covered: Sanskrit, Hindi, Telugu, Tibetan
Collection strengths: Language and Literature, History, Religion
Indiana University
Languages covered: English, Hindi, Urdu, Bengali, Sanskrit, Tamil
Collection strengths: South Asian Films and Cinema Studies, Media Studies, Contemporary Indian History, Political Science.
Languages covered: English, Hindi, Urdu, Bengali, Sanskrit, Tamil
Collection strengths: South Asian Films and Cinema Studies, Media Studies, Contemporary Indian History, Political Science.
Princeton University
Languages covered: Primarily though not exclusively in Hindi, Urdu, and Sanskrit
Collection strengths: Islamic Law in all South Asian languages, South Asian ephemera, gender studies, Tibetan Buddhism, history, physical and biological sciences, maps
Languages covered: Primarily though not exclusively in Hindi, Urdu, and Sanskrit
Collection strengths: Islamic Law in all South Asian languages, South Asian ephemera, gender studies, Tibetan Buddhism, history, physical and biological sciences, maps
University of British Columbia
Languages covered: Hindi, Punjabi, Sanskrit , Tibetan, Urdu
Collection strengths: The Asian Library has one of the largest Punjabi, Hindi and Sanskrit collections amongst Canadian academic libraries.
Languages covered: Hindi, Punjabi, Sanskrit , Tibetan, Urdu
Collection strengths: The Asian Library has one of the largest Punjabi, Hindi and Sanskrit collections amongst Canadian academic libraries.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Languages covered: Hindi, Urdu, Sanskrit, Bengali, Tamil
Collection strengths: Comics, popular culture, religion, gender studies, agriculture, landscape architecture, architecture, history
Languages covered: Hindi, Urdu, Sanskrit, Bengali, Tamil
Collection strengths: Comics, popular culture, religion, gender studies, agriculture, landscape architecture, architecture, history
University of Minnesota
Languages covered: Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, and Urdu
Collection strengths: A historical archive of rare colonial publications and manuscripts dating back to the 1500s; broad coverage of arts, humanities and social sciences with particular strengths in Art History and Development Studies.
Languages covered: Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, and Urdu
Collection strengths: A historical archive of rare colonial publications and manuscripts dating back to the 1500s; broad coverage of arts, humanities and social sciences with particular strengths in Art History and Development Studies.
University of Pennsylvania
Languages covered: All Major Languages
Collection strengths: Art history, colonial India, epigraphy, manuscript studies, performance, Sanskrit philology, South Asian diaspora, subaltern studies.
Languages covered: All Major Languages
Collection strengths: Art history, colonial India, epigraphy, manuscript studies, performance, Sanskrit philology, South Asian diaspora, subaltern studies.
University of Texas at Austin
Languages covered: Bengali, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Sanskrit, and Urdu
Collection strengths: Sanskrit, Southern India, Urdu language and literature.
Languages covered: Bengali, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Sanskrit, and Urdu
Collection strengths: Sanskrit, Southern India, Urdu language and literature.
University of Toronto
Languages covered: All major languages with special interest in Sanskrit, Pali, Tamil
Collection strengths: Rare Tamil materials from the Gros collection.
Languages covered: All major languages with special interest in Sanskrit, Pali, Tamil
Collection strengths: Rare Tamil materials from the Gros collection.
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Languages covered: All major languages with focus on English, Hindi, Pali, Sanskrit, Telugu, Tibetan and Urdu.
Collection strengths: Humanities, Social Sciences, Music, Theater, Feminist Posters.
Languages covered: All major languages with focus on English, Hindi, Pali, Sanskrit, Telugu, Tibetan and Urdu.
Collection strengths: Humanities, Social Sciences, Music, Theater, Feminist Posters.
Yale University
Languages covered: All major languages, with particular focus on Hindi, Urdu, Persian, Odia, and Bengali, as well as an older collection of Tamil materials and Tibetan manuscripts. Currently, we are actively collecting in Northeast Indian languages, including Meitei and Assamese.
Collection strengths: Sanskrit and Pali manuscripts, South Asian literature, and social science resources.
Languages covered: All major languages, with particular focus on Hindi, Urdu, Persian, Odia, and Bengali, as well as an older collection of Tamil materials and Tibetan manuscripts. Currently, we are actively collecting in Northeast Indian languages, including Meitei and Assamese.
Collection strengths: Sanskrit and Pali manuscripts, South Asian literature, and social science resources.
Consortial and Governmental Collections and Libraries:
Center for Research Libraries
Languages covered: All major languages
Collection strengths: Literature, newspapers, government documents
Languages covered: All major languages
Collection strengths: Literature, newspapers, government documents
Library of Congress
Languages covered: All major languages
Collection strengths: All areas of the humanities and social sciences, newspapers, literature in minority languages, rare books and manuscripts, South Asian materials in other Library of Congress divisions (e.g., Law Library, Geography & Map Division, Prints & Photographs Division, Persian materials in African & Middle Eastern Division).
Languages covered: All major languages
Collection strengths: All areas of the humanities and social sciences, newspapers, literature in minority languages, rare books and manuscripts, South Asian materials in other Library of Congress divisions (e.g., Law Library, Geography & Map Division, Prints & Photographs Division, Persian materials in African & Middle Eastern Division).