South Asian Studies: Images

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

Image Databases available from UW Libraries

Image Databases available from UW Libraries
Database of G.D. Sontheimer's images from India 1950-1992
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More than 22.000 slides showing rituals and everyday life of ordinary people, farmers, shepherds or ethnic minorities from India, especially Maharashtra have been digitised in context of the Cluster’s “Heidelberg Research Architecture”. They are now part of the Cluster’s image database and freely available via HeidICON.