LESSER-KNOWN TREASURES FROM THE WEB @ rarebooksocietyofindia.org
A pick of offbeat, non-mainstream blogs and sites
The Internet Archive offers millions of free ebooks, many
of which are about the history and culture of India. You can find ancient
Sanskrit and Persian texts as well as the writings of Mahatma Gandhi, and even
government documents from recent years, in it. But the Archive is such a vast
storehouse of information, you can get lost in it without a guide. The Rare
Book Society of India can help you find your way around if you are researching
Indian history, and it taps into several other repositories for this.
“It is a virtual space for rare book collectors and history buffs to read,
discuss, rediscover and download lost books,” says founder Subbiah Yadalam on
the site’s home page. As a curated website it links to “digital libraries such
as The Internet Archive, Google Books and the online collections of various
museums.”
The books, essays and art are sorted by theme, such as,
‘The Grand Mughals’, ‘Indian Cities Through the Ages’, The Dutch, French and
Portuguese in India’, ‘Natural History of India’, etc.
New material is frequently added, so regular visitors
won’t be disappointed. Recent additions to the website include The Raghuvanca
- The Story of Raghu’s Line, by Kalidasa, The New Testament in Urdu, and
Vasavadatta — A Sanskrit Romance, by Subandhu.
Source | Times of India | 15th January 2018
Regards
Prof. Pralhad Jadhav
Master of Library &
Information Science (NET Qualified)
Senior Manager @ Knowledge
Repository
Khaitan & Co
Twitter Handle | @Pralhad161978
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