South Asia
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A region of Asia that historically has had intermittent contact with the nations of Europe and with the nations of East Asia. It has a very broad range of climates and cultures, especially given the small size of the region. Since the 13th century it has been governed mostly by Islamic governments, and since the 18th century mostly by the United Kingdom. For the most part, its economy has been highly integrated into the global marketplace.
This site distinguishes between South Asia and Southern Asia, which includes South Asia, Southwest Asia (and the Arabian Peninsula), Southeast Asia, and the Malay Archipelago.
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Government
- Government (Gunnar Anzinger)
- US AID | Asia
- Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies
- CIA World Factbook
- Country Analysis Briefs, Department of Energy EIA
- Country Studies, US Library of Congress
Multilateral
- Commonwealth Secretariat
- Datafinder (courtesy Population Reference Bureau)
- United Nations agencies & bureaux
- Social & Economic Data (ECOSOC)
- Environmental Programme (UNEP)
- Econ. & Social Comm.-Asia & Pacific (ESCAP)
- UNHCR: Afghanistan | Nepal
- World Health Organization
News & Media
- Al-Jazeera.Net English - Home Page
- BBC (UK)
- Daily Times (Pakistan)
- Daily Star (Dhaka, Bang)
- Dawn (Karachi, Pak)
- Frontline (India)
- The Hindu (India)
- Indonesian News
- Nepali Times
- Pak Positive (Pakistan)
NGO/University: Current Info
- Amnesty International | S Asia
- Banglapedia (General Reference on Bangladesh)
- Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- Centre for Protection of Minorities & Against Racism and Discrimination, CPMARD-Bhutan; highly critical of Drukpa monarchy
- Economic & Political Weekly
- Human Rights Watch | S Asia
- Institute of Foreign Affairs (Nepal)
- International Crisis Group
- South Asia Analysis Group
- South Asia Terrorism Data
- AsiaMedia | AsiaStats | AsiaDocs, University of California, Los Angeles
NGO/University: History
- Military & Democracy in Asia & the Pacific, Australian Nat'l Univ. Digital Theses
- Asian Studies, Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI), Bergen, Norway
- Saeed Shafqat | Columbia Univ.
- Frank E Smith | World History
- Internet South Asian History Sourcebook, Fordham University
- Crisis States Research, London School of Economics
- Pakistan: Partition & Military Succession (Documents from the U.S. National Archives)
- Swedish South Asian Studies Network
- Tibetan & Himalayan Digital Library
- Repositories of Primary Sources, University of Idaho
