Pakistan Virtual Library
South Asia Studies Libraries

• Australia
• National Library of Australia: South Asia
  http://www.nla.gov.au/southasia/
  [Useful links to libraries in South Asia from the report on renovating the collection.]
  
  United Kingdom
• British Library
  http://www.bl.uk/
  [For information about the Oriental and India Collection, when you reach the main page, click on Collections, and then click on Oriental & India.]
• Oxford Indian Institute Library
  http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/oriental/iil.htm
  [A department of the Bodleian Library and a major collection at Oxford University, England.]
  
  United States
• UC Berkeley Library Web: South Asia Resources
  http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/SSEAL/SouthAsia/
  [Online information about the South Asia collections at the University of California at Berkeley, USA. Includes links to academic research centers and to a South Asian Diaspora page.]
• University of Chicago Library: South Asia
  http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/su/southasia/home.html
  [Links to resources include: Roja Muthiah Research Library, Urdu Research Library Consortium, South Asia Reference Tools Progra, An electronic Tamil dictionary, Microfilming of Indian Publication Project.]
• University of Michigan: Graduate Library South Asia Division
  http://www.lib.umich.edu/area/sasia/
  [Annotated links topically organized: General Sources and Bibliographies, Country Specific Resources (India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka), Religions (Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, Jainism, Sikhism), News Sources (India, Nepal, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, General News Sources), Language and Literature, Non-Asian Government Sources.]
  
  The World Wide Web Virtual Library
• Asian Studies Virtual Library
  http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-AsianStudies.html
  [The very useful main page for the Asian Studies section of The World-Wide Web Virtual Library. Established and maintained at The Australian National University by Dr. T. Matthew Ciolek.]
• South Asia Virtual Library
  http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/indiv/area/sarai/
  [An excellent guide to South Asia online resources, maintained by David Magier at Columbia University in New York City, USA. See the linking page for libraries with major South Asia collections.]
• India Virtual Library
  http://www.southasianist.info/india/index.html
  [Edited by Gene R. Thursby.]
• Pakistan Virtual Library
  http://www.southasianist.info/pakistan/index.html
  [Maintained by Gene R. Thursby.]
• Kashmir Virtual Library
  http://www.southasianist.info/kashmir/index.html
  [Resources concerning this disputed region are collected and edited by Gene R. Thursby.]
• Bangladesh Virtual Library
  http://asnic.utexas.edu/asnic/countries/bangla/
  [Maintained by Dr Kamal Adhikary (kamal@link.lanic.utexas.edu) at the University of Texas at Austin, USA.]
• Nepal Virtual Library
  http://www.catmando.com/wwwvlnp.htm
  [Maintained by Mahendra B. Shrestha.]
• Sri Lanka Virtual Library
  http://www.lankalibrary.com/
  [A well-developed site that uses frames.]
• Tibet Virtual Library
  http://www.ciolek.com/WWWVL-TibetanStudies.html
  [Maintained by Dr. T. Matthew Ciolek in Australia.]

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