LibGuides: South Asian Studies: Language and Literature

Language Training and Study

Digital Dictionaries of South Asia
Web Dunia
The Sanskrit Library
The Sanskrit Library is a digital library dedicated to facilitating education and research in Sanskrit by providing access to digitized primary texts and computerized research and study tools to analyze and maximize their utility. Scholars, students, and the general public interested in the vast knowledge composed in Sanskrit in India and elsewhere over more than three millennia are invited to use this web site.
Portal of Sanskrit Resources
Ethnologue - Language of the World
New catalogus catalogorum; an alphabetical register of Sanskrit and allied works and authors
Computational Resource for South Asian Languages
The CoRSAL group supports archiving of audio, video, and text on the under-resourced languages of South Asia.

The Cornell University South Asia Program has made copies of six Sinhala textbooks that we published in the 20^th century available open access, as well as the accompanying audio files, via the links below, and at https://einaudi.cornell.edu/programs/south-asia-program/publications/sinhala-language.

Colloquial Sinhalese (Sinhala) Part 1 by Gordon H. Fairbanks, James W. Gair, and M. W. S. De Silva, and accompanying audio files and dialogs
Colloquial Sinhalese (Sinhala) Part 2 by Gordon H. Fairbanks, James W. Gair, and M. W. S. De Silva , and accompanying audio files and dialogs
Readings in Colloquial Sinhala by James W. Gair, W. S. Karunatillake, and John Paolillo, and accompanying audio files
Literary Sinhala by James W. Gair and W. S. Karunatilaka
Literary Sinhala Inflected Forms : A Synopsis, with a Transliteration Guide to Sinhala Script by James W. Gair and W. S. Karunatilaka
Samples of Contemporary Sinhala Prose: With Glossary and Brief Grammatical Notes by James W. Gair and W. S. Karunatilaka

Literary Resources

Bibliography of Asian Studies (a comprehensive database on many subjects (rich in the humanities and the social sciences) that includes a large volume of journal articles, chapters in edited volumes, conference proceedings, anthologies, and Festschriften related to South Asia published worldwide from 1971 to the present)
Biblio: a review of Books
Desilit ("to build support for South Asian and diasporic writing")
Faiz Ahmed Faiz
Indian Review ("Critiques and writings from across India and the world over")
JSTOR
Literature Criticism Online
Literature Online
Literature on South Asia - Digitized [free access to full text versions of books on South Asia from the 18th to the early 20th century from the Library of the South Asia Institute in Heidelberg and the University library Heidelberg]
Literature Resource Center
Literature written by South Asian Women (Irene Joshi)
SALA (South Asian Literary Association)
SARAI: Literature of South Asia
Some Useful Sources on Hindi/Urdu Language and Literature (Prof. Fran Prichett)
South and Southeast Asian literature classic and postcolonial writers in English, 1825 to present, Alexander Press
South Asian American Literature
South Asian Diaspora Literature in English
South Asian Literature in Pre-Independence Era (Irene Joshi)
South Asian Literature: Some Primary Sources (Prof. Fran Prichett)
SASIALIT (The SASIALIT mailing list is for the discussion of contemporary literature of South Asia (Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka), including works by authors of South Asian origin throughout the world).

Anglo-Indian Literature: free online articles and books