some sites to check out during your semester break

This is a new site coming out of Delhi and in its pilot stage :Kalasampada Digital Library - Resources of Indian Cultural Heritage Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA), New Delhi, India. The aim of the site is to serve as a major resource centre for the arts, especially written, oral and visual source materials. It includes research and publication programmes of reference works, glossaries, dictionaries and encyclopaedia concerning the arts and the humanities. Eventually they want to establish a tribal and folk arts division with a core collection for conducting systematic scientific studies and for live presentations and to provide a forum for a creative and critical dialogue through performances, exhibitions, multi-media projections,conferences, seminars and workshops between and amongst the diverse arts, traditional and contemporary. Take a look there is some very interesting material;
URL http://ignca.nic.in/dgt_0001.htm

Also the site below is coming out of Chicago University. Take a look at the map section in particular the extent of British rule prior to Indian Independance;
http://dsal.uchicago.edu/
the digital South Asia Library
http://dsal.uchicago.edu/index.html

http://dsal.uchicago.edu/maps/index.html

http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/schwartzberg/pager.html?object=106
for a map of modern religious reform movements in the 19th century

http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/schwartzberg/pager.html?object=187
for a map of British territories held from 1807 until Independance