The Asian Studies WWW Monitor: Sep 2009, Vol. 16, No. 12 (302) ————————————————————–
01 Sep 2008
Epigraphia Indica / Carnatica / Birmanica / Moslemica – free e-books
The Universal Library Project, The Internet Archive, San Francisco, CA, US
Supplied note: “[…] I would like to suggest a report on http://www.archive.org This site [i.e. The Universal Library, with 31,382 items in early Sep 2009 – ed.] while heavily dominated by Western popular culture, but it also contains gems like an uploaded set of much of _Epigraphia Indica_ which seems to have been scanned and put up by Dr Z.A. Desai, a retired Director of the Archaeological Survey of India. – sg.” Site contents: * Epigraphia Birmanica – Umya – Downloads: 167. * Epigraphia Indica – Downloads: 1,821. * Epigraphia Carnatica Vol 16 – Nilakanta Sastri – Downloads: 690. * Epigraphia Indica Vol 5 – Desai, Z.A – Downloads: 1,356. * Epigraphia Indica Vol 7 – Desai, Z.A – Downloads: 368. * Epigraphia Indica Vol 9 – Dasia, Z.A [sic] – Downloads: 820. * Epigraphia Indica Vol 10 – Dasia, Z.A [sic] – Downloads: 1,047. * Epigraphia Indica Vol 11 – Dasia, Z.A [sic] – Downloads: 1,169. * Epigraphia Indica Vol 13 – Dasia, Z.A [sic] – Downloads: 1,264. * Epigraphia Indo – Moslemica – G.Yazdani – Downloads: 231. * Epigraphia Carnatica Vol 3 – B. Lewis Rice – Downloads: 418. * Epigraphia Indica Arbic [sic] And Persian Supplement 1973 – Desai, Z.A – Downloads: 215. * Epigraphia Indica Arbic [sic] And Persian Supplement 1973 – Desai, Z.A – Downloads: 231.
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Internet Archive (www.archive.org) – as above. Link reported by: Sumit Guha (sguha–at–history.rutgers.edu) *
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