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South Asian Studies: South Asian Open Access Resources

South Asian Studies is the study of South Asian Countries - India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Maldives and Afghanistan.

Open Access resources

 Lokniti Program for Comparative Democracy : this website at the Centre for the Study of  Developing Societies (CSDS) maintains election data
      for  the Lok Sabha (1951-2019) and State Assembly Elections (dates vary).

      Gretil: Göttingen Register of Electronic Texts in Indian Languages : This site contains Electronic texts in India Classical Language 

      Long Emergency: Media and Democracy in India is conceived as a series of oral history interviews documenting journalistic praxis around the
       time the the Indian emergency (1975-1977