Digital South Asia Library

The Digital South Asia Library provides materials for reference and research on South Asia to scholars, public officials, business leaders, and other users. This project builds on a two-year pilot project funded by the Association of Research Libraries’ Global Resources Program with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Participants in the Digital South Asia Library include leading U.S. universities, the Center for Research Libraries, the South Asia Microform Project, the Committee on South Asian Libraries and Documentation, the Association for Asian Studies, the Library of Congress, the Asia Society, the British Library, the University of Oxford, the University of Cambridge, MOZHI in India, the Sundarayya Vignana Kendram in India, Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya in Nepal, and other institutions in South Asia. DSAL is a project of the Center for Research Libraries and the University of Chicago. Image collections include the Glenn Hensley Photo Library (World War II), the American Institute of Indian Studies, the Government College of Arts and Crafts in Chennai, the Oriental and India Office Collections, and the Robert Keagle and Frank Bond photo libraries (World War II).