LibGuides: South Asian Studies: Pulp, Pamphlets, Ephemera, Web Archives

UT's South Asian Popular and Pulp Fiction Collection

The University of Texas at Austin Libraries is developing a collection of popular and pulp fiction in the regional languages of South Asia. These novels, novellas and serialized stories help us challenge what qualifies as “worthy” both in terms of style and substance while also providing a unique lens through which themes of gender, sexuality, caste & religion, authority can be explored. Beyond literary content, the graphic covers are also of great interest.

Ephemera and Pamphlets

The South Asian Ephemera Collection at Princeton is an openly accessible repository of items that spans a variety of subjects and languages to support research, teaching, and private study. Highlighted collections include Pakistani Film Ephemera, the Dissidents and Activists in Sri Lanka, 19602-1990s and the Hindu Nationalist Ephmera: Collection of Arvind Rajagopal, 19602-2000s. Newly acquired materials are being digitized and added on an ongoing basis.

The University of Minnesota's Hindi Street Literature collection includes a wide variety of ephemera, including vrat katha pamphlets, ritual manuals, svang drama texts, astrological texts and more.

The South Asia Pamphlet Collection at the Library of Congress includes booklets, pamphlets, and other ephemera. There are about 150 pamphlet collections of print materials organized by topic, each with its own number of items, including the Political Pamphlets from the Indian Subcontinent.

Web Archives

India's Citizenship Amendment Act Protest Movements
The Indian Citizenship Amendment Act Protest Movements Web Archive documents the widespread social justice movements and anti-CAA organizations to support them, as well as the allied movements mobilizing women and students with them, including groups of freedom fighters, oppressed castes, transgender people, and other marginalized communities. The Archive also contains documentation of the government crackdowns and violent suppression of these protests.
South Asian Gender and Sexuality
Amplifying the voices of those fighting against long histories of patriarchal dominance, the South Asian Gender and Sexuality Web Archive documents and preserves the work of activists, grassroots organizations, and social justice movements committed to promoting the visibility and experiences of LGBTQAI+ people and women in South Asia and its diasporas.
South Asian Governmental Publications
The South Asian Governmental Publications Web Archive aims to collect and preserve open access online formats of government serials from South Asia. From demographic data to legislative proceedings, the serials that form the focus of the Archive include publications on all subjects and from all countries of the region (Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka). The Archive complements robust print collections of government documents acquired through the PL-480 and subsequent South Asia Cooperative Acquisitions Program (SACAP).