World History: Primary Source Collections Online

Photos especially document culture and regional clothing. (Univ. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)

Digitized volumes of collected speeches, letters, etc. from 1888-1948. (GandhiServe Foundation)

Several image collections, including three sets of photographs taken by WWII servicemen. (Univ. of Chicago)

Series of oral history interviews documenting journalistic praxis around the time of the Indian emergency (1975-1977). Also includes a selection of material from this period such as films, cartoons, news clippings, government documents, and court judgements. (Merian-Tagore International Centre of Advanced Studies [ICAS:MP] and the Centre for Modern Indian Studies, University of Göttingen [CeMIS])

The Ramayana – “Rama’s journey” - is one of India’s oldest stories, first told in the Sanskrit epic poem of Valmiki some 2,500 years ago. One of the world's most beautiful Ramayana manuscripts, the Mewar Ramayana, was prepared for Maharana Jagat Singh, the ruler of the Rajput kingdom of Mewar in Rajasthan, in the mid 17th century. Most volumes of the manuscript are now in the British Library, but other parts have remained in India. Digitisation has made it possible for this long-divided manuscript to be brought together again for the first time in almost 200 years. The majority of text pages in the manuscript have been digitised as well as the paintings so that Valmiki’s work can be read in the original Sanskrit. (British Library)