Primary Source Databases
- Hindi Cinema: Histories of Film-making This link opens in a new window
Features interviews with leading Indian film personalities who contributed to the shaping of the ‘Golden Age’ of Hindi cinema and beyond. Includes supplemental photographs and movie posters. Focuses on Hindi cinema, the industry producing Hindi/Urdu language films popularly known as ‘Bollywood’.
- Music Online: Contemporary World Music This link opens in a new windowMusic from all the regions of the world including important genres such as reggae, worldbeat, neo-traditional, world fusion, Balkanic jazz, African film, Bollywood, Arab swing and jazz, and other genres such as traditional music - Indian classical, fado, flamenco, klezmer, zydeco, gospel, gagaku, and more. Complements: Smithsonian Global Sound
, the collection of American traditional musics. Liner notes to the original recordings are available. - ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Times of India This link opens in a new window
Complete issues of the widely circulated English daily newspaper, 1838-2011.
- South Asia Commons This link opens in a new windowFormerly South Asia Archive. Interdisciplinary database for students and scholars across the humanities and social sciences, including historical documents reflecting the varied range of knowledge production in colonial and early post-colonial India and the wider sub-continent. Includes serial and non-serial materials, reports, rare books, and journals.
- South Asian Newspapers from the World Newspaper Archive This link opens in a new windowAn extensive coverage of the people, issues and events that shaped the Indian Subcontinent between 1864 and 1922.
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Other Web Resources
- Bollywood and Beyond: Analyzing the Indian Film Industry through Irfan Guftagoo Interviews"This is a research page that focuses on evidence from the popular television series Guftagoo hosted by S. M. Irfan and published by Rajya Sabha Television. For researchers, we are providing a data set that we have generated by collecting and coding metadata from close to 400 interviews aired from 2011-present. As we build the data set, we will also provide key visualizations and basic Python code that we have generated as analytics. Scholars can also manipulate and analyze the data based on their own research questions."
- Colonial Film" This website holds detailed information on over 6000 films showing images of life in the British colonies. Over 150 films are available for viewing online. You can search or browse for films by country, date, topic, or keyword. Over 350 of the most important films in the catalogue are presented with extensive critical notes written by our academic research team."
- Indiancine.ma"Indiancine.ma is an annotated online archive of Indian film. It is intended to serve as a shared resource for film scholars and enthusiasts in India and beyond."
- The Art of BollywoodWebsite by Victoria and Albert Museum, London was originally created for the exhibition, Cinema India: The Art of Bollywood, at the V&A, South Kensington 26 June – 6 October 2002.
