
DIRECTORY OF ARCHIVES - WORLDWIDE
The Directory of Archives is an update-able list of archives and institutions in care and custody of material and references from the Subcontinent. If you’d like to recommend more that we should add, please ensure that the links indeed work and the archive site/catalogue exists online, and send us an email.
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List collated by The Memory Company
IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM (IWM)
Coverage of conflicts involving Britain and the Commonwealth, from WWI to present day. Includes archives of images and documents about Indian Soldiers, Army traders and Merchant Navy.
Audio, Books, Correspondence, Documents, Film, Manuscripts, Maps, Microfilm, Newspapers, Periodicals, Oral Stories, Photographs, Prints, Prototype, Statistics, Surveys
DIGITAL SOUTH ASIA LIBRARY
Digital materials for research on South Asia. Participants in the Library include the Library of Congress, Asia Society, British Library, the University of Oxford and Cambridge, and institutions in South Asia.
Maps, Maps, Statistics, Dictionaries, Images, Books, Journals, Correspondence, Manuscripts, Newspapers, Periodicals, Statistics, Surveys
NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF UK
The national archive for United Kingdom holds over 500 years of records from Indian Subcontinental material acquired and created by the British Empire.
Audio, Books, Correspondence, Early Cinema, Manuscripts, Newspapers & Periodicals, Performing Arts, Photographs, Prints, Prototype, Certificates, government and people records
CROSS ASIA
Portal offering access to printed and electronic resources concerning South Asia. Archival collection of early printed literature, commercial art and documents. In cooperation with Heidelberg University.
Books, Correspondence, Film, Manuscripts, Microfilm, Newspapers & Periodicals, Performing Arts, Photographs, Prints
DIGITAL HIMALAYA PROJECT
Ethnographic materials from the Himalayan region. Based at the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge. co-located at Yale University.
Audio, Books, Correspondence, Documents, Film, Manuscripts, Microfilm, Nepal, Newspapers & Periodicals, Photographs, Prints, Prototype
THE CINEMA RESOURCE CENTRE
Public archive of Indian cinema designed to enable research on the audio-visual cultural artefacts produced by Indian films, especially in regional languages of South India.
Cinema, Documentary Films, Documents, Manuscripts, Newspapers & Periodicals, Performing Arts, Photographs, Prints
ROJA MUTHIAH RESEARCH LIBRARY
Unique Collection of Roja Muthiah Chettiyar. 2,50,000 Tamil imprints & publications for research. Spanning humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Most publications from 19th and 20th c.
Books, Correspondence, Documents, , Manuscripts, Newspapers & Periodicals, Photographs, Prints
SAADA : SOUTH ASIAN AMERICAN DIGITAL ARCHIVE
Documents the rich history of South Asians in the United States and ensuring that our community’s stories are protected and preserved for future generations.
Books, Correspondence, Film, Manuscripts, Microfilm, Newspapers & Periodicals, Performing Arts, Photographs, Prints
TATA CENTRAL ARCHIVES
The first Business Archive in India. Material of historical and critical significance to the Tata Group as one of the largest and most respected business houses in India.
Oral stories, Books, Narratives, Correspondence, Documents, Film, Manuscripts, Microfilm, Nepal, Newspapers & Periodicals, Photographs, Prints, Prototype
HISTORY OF JAZZ IN INDIA : TAJMAHAL FOXTROT
The story of India and Bombay through lives of a menagerie of musicians, Jazz Singers, Performing Artists, both Indian and American, who helped jazz find a home in the subcontinent.
Audio, Books, Album Covers, Publicity Material, Narratives, Newspapers & Periodicals, Performing Arts, Photographs
PANJAB DIGITAL LIBRARY
Locates, digitizes, preserves, collects and makes accessible the accumulated wisdom of the Panjab region, without distinction as to script, language, religion, nationality, or other physical condition.
Books, Documents, Manuscripts, Newspapers & Periodicals, Photographs, Prints,
GODREJ ARCHIVES
Business archive of the Godrej Group responsible for selection, collection, management and preservation of records covering 115 years their history.