WEB PAGES

Before beginning this discussion of web pages, it seem important to note that they are all interconnected. That is, each site provides links to other relevant sites. As a result, discussion of one of these pages is actually a discussion on all of the other pages. It is fairly easy to navigate your way around these sites and they are full of interesting and useful materials.

a. American Oriental Society:

This web page is extremely useful. Not only does it contain a digital version of the newsletter, it also has the Table of Contents for the majority of recent issues of the Journal of the American Oriental Society. This is an invaluable resource. It contains the addresses of scholars in the field, translations of texts available for downloading, and other extremely important information. It can be located at http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jrodhers/.

b. Australian South Asia Research Centre:

This is a major site for beginning any research on the web for South Asia Studies. They have catalogued virtually all of the resources that I could find relevant to South Asia here in one site. The site can be contacted at http://coombs.anu.edu.as/WWWVLAsian/VLSouth.html Some of the useful things that I could find here were a list of on-line resources, Indian Language fonts, and links to country specific information. The India link puts you in contact with a very useful virtual library maintained by Sergio Paoli and a government link which gives basic facts and statistical information about India. You can also connect from here to the social sciences virtual library.

c. Columbia University:

This site is also indescribable full of information and cross-site links. Within area studies, the relevant location is: South Asia resource Access on the Internet (SARAI). The site can be found at http://www.colombia.edu/cu/libraries/indiv/area/sarai. This site provides information on libraries and bibliographic resources on South Asia, a list and description of Electronic Journals and Newspapers on South Asia, an International Directory of Scholars in the field, links to the country specific virtual libraries (a very useful site), information on scholarly and governmental organizations concerning South Asia, useful teaching resources, and a huge space where there is an assortment of random materials which have not been sorted and organized onto the page itself.

d. Indology:

This web page is even more useful than the AOS home page. This web page contains bibliographic information on South Asia, Electronic texts, (primarily Journals and Scriptures, including things like the Yogasutras, the Heart Sutra, the Gita and many others) teaching resources on South Asia, Information on Data bases and information resources on South Asia, information on jobs, field news, conferences, and resources for Tibetan and Buddhist studies. In addition, all of the discussion which goes on the e-mail list is catalogued and stored at this web site. Overall, a gold mine of information! It is located at http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucgadkw/inenet-whatis.html.

e. Religion in South Asia:

This is also a useful web page containing the program from the RISA 1996 annual meeting program, all of the posted messages from the bulletin board, the RISA document archives, a bibliographic archive, (which contains an extremely detailed bibliography of the Aryan controversy) and a teaching resource archive. A list of members can also be obtained here which can be extremely useful for contacting important contributors to the field (nearly everyone who is anyone is on this list, except Wendy Doniger). This web Page can be accessed at http://www.acsud.edu/~lnelson/risa/index.html.

f. South Asia Gopher:

This is another extremely useful site maintained by Columbia University Libraries which can be reached at gopher://gopher.cc.colombia.edu:71/00/clioplua/scholarly/South Asia/. It contains links to the worlds most complete library collections. There is access to film and media resources from libraries throughout the country. There is a discussion of relevant news groups, listservs, bulletin boards. In addition, there is information on: language materials and computer fonts, teaching resources, a directory of scholars, list of research institutions, lists of academic jobs, postings and much more. Overall, an invaluable tool for South Asian studies.

g. Hinduism Virtual Library:

This is an extremely useful page which contains links to other important sites including the global Hindu network (contains a Hindu scripture reference center), , Bhakti Yoga, and a site about the integral yoga of Sri Aurobindo. There are also useful translations of the Gita, some of the Upanisads, as well as some other Vedic texts. The site is maintained by Armin Miller and can be reached at http://sunfly.ub.uni-freiburg.de/religion/hindu.html.

h. Vedic Website:

This is an interesting site which contain a few gems of information. For example, it contains Lehman's translation of the Rig Veda and the Shatapatha Upanisads as well as a useful Sanskrit-English dictionary. It can be located at http://vedavid.org.

i. WWW Virtual Library:India:

Wow! Entering this site is like being caught in an avalanche of information. The site is primarily a link to other sites. That is, it provides access to literally hundreds of other sites which are relevant to the field (and others which are of marginal interest). Some of the sites include: 9 sites on the Gita, the Hindu Tantrik home page, Krishnamurti foundation, Osho on the Web, Swami Vivekananda Study center, the church of Tantra, 2 Vedanta sites and numerous sites on Vedic Astrology. This is a fascinating page, yet it takes a careful eye to sift through the muck. The page can be reached at http://wehead.com/wwwVL/India/india222.html.