Now online — where to find rare journals and articles from British-ruled India - IdeasofIndia.org’
A newly launched database of journals & articles from 1837-1947 seeks to connect history buffs with op-eds from India’s colonial past.
New Delhi: It’s a peek at over 100 years of India’s colonial
history — a doorway to real-time commentary on a subcontinent grappling with
British excesses and the ideas of identity and independence.
An Abu Dhabi-based Indian
academic has teamed up with 147 researchers from 15 nations to devise a comprehensive
map for dozens of forgotten journals lying in 160 libraries as far apart as the
US and the UK.
History enthusiasts can log on to ‘IdeasofIndia.org’ to peruse through the
index, which lists 255 largely unknown journals, articles and periodicals that
were read and circulated in the century leading up to India’s independence,
between 1837 and 1947.
Visitors to the website will find
where a certain publication can be accessed, whether at a distant library or
some other corner of the internet. It doesn’t itself host any of the
publications.
It took five years and $360,000
(approximately Rs 2.57 crore) to put the index together, said Rahul Sagar, the
global network associate professor of political science at NYU Abu Dhabi.
“The great beauty of these periodicals
lay in the fact that they devoted themselves to ideas rather than news. They
served as the forum where debates could be had,” Sagar told ThePrint in an
email interview.
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