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South Asia Databases Collection 
It has numerous free but some licensed databases
East India Company
Empire Online
Foreign Office Files for India, Pakistan and Afghanistan
India, Raj and Empire
The South Asian Newspapers Collection 
via Chicago Research Libraries
Selected works of Jawaharlal Nehru

There are also licenced databases via CrossAsia. These are accessible after registration with CrossAsia. So students have to register first with CrossAsia and then they can access ALL licensed resources available on CrossAsia. For South Asian history these are:

  • Indian Communists and Trade Unionist on Trial
  • Taking India, how the military established Company rule, 1752-1774
  • Indian and Sri Lankan records from colonial missionaries, 1770-1931
  • India, business and control, 1806-1814
  • India, uprising and reform, 1879-1910

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