Southern Asia Resources at Chicago
More than 50 faculty around the university are members of the Committee on Southern Asian Studies, which since the 1950s has served as a meeting place as well as a resource for research, teaching, conferences, and student support on South and South East Asia. We invite you to learn more about our faculty members’ and students’ interests, our teaching, our upcoming events, and our unparalleled resources for faculty and student research and support.
Other key South and Southern Asia resources on campus are a thriving department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations (SALC) and one of the world’s finest South Asia library collections. In addition, the national South Asia Language Resource Center (SALRC) and the American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS) are also housed on the Chicago campus.
Some of our activities that undergraduate students interested in Southern Asia have access to are our language programs, study abroad programs, seminars, and, conferences.
Current graduate students may avail of our fellowship programs for language study, research, and dissertation write-up. Our graduate students across our participating departments have undertaken language study and conducted research across South and Southern Asia on a wide variety of topics.
We also invite you to explore the South Asia Outreach section of this website where we describe the resources we provide to K-12 and other educators, and to the general public.
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Online language study resources:
Malayalam at the University of Chicago
Video material and other helpful resources for students of Malayalam.
Online library resources from the Southern Asia Collection:
The Digital South Asia Library
The Digital South Asia Library (DSAL) provides digital materials for reference and research on South Asia to scholars, public officials, business leaders, and other users. 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.
The South Asia Union Catalogue
The South Asia Union Catalogue (SAUC) is a cap-stone program gathering existing bibliographic records and combining them with new cataloguing created under current projects to create a definitive statement on publishing in the South Asian subcontinent. The South Asia Union Catalogue intends to become an historical bibliography comprehensively describing books and periodicals published in South Asia from 1556 through the present.
Digital Dictionaries of South Asia
For each of the twenty-six modern literary languages of South Asia, a panel of language experts identified key dictionaries currently in print and selected at least one multilingual dictionary for each language. For the more frequently taught languages, a monolingual dictionary also has been chosen. After identifying the best available resources, the chosen dictionaries have been converted to digital formats.
Libraries & Archives in South Asia Wiki
The Libraries & Archives in South Asia (LASA) wiki is a collaborative effort to compile a guide to South Asian libraries and archives for academics and researchers in the humanities and social sciences. The LASA wiki contains detailed information about libraries and archives in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
University of Chicago Dissertations on Southern Asia, 1914-Present
This database includes abstracts of dissertations from each department at the University of Chicago where the subject was geographically focused on Southern Asia.