South Asia Open Archives (SAOA)

SAOA is a free online collection of #OpenAccess primary source materials for the study of South Asia and is an affiliate of CLIR (@CLIRnews)

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📣 Have you heard?!?!

SAOA now has over 1 million pages of completely #free, #OpenAccess content for studying #SouthAsia!

Read about the accomplishment: https://t.co/SBnHna9jls

And check out the collection: https://t.co/VAonuOmTYi

@CRL_Global @ITHAKA_org @JSTOR

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Need to beat the heat? Make sure you’ve got barley water and a good fan, and sit down to explore vintage newspapers at SAOA!

#Newspapers #Vintage #SAOA #SouthAsia #VintageAd

Read more here: https://t.co/1wL5FHn60v

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Beware of tremendous heat over head! Browse the SAOA collections coolly and comfortably.

#SAOA #SouthAsia #OpenAccess

Read it here: https://t.co/qNwDCcSaYt

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Celebrate World Bicycle Day with a ramble through SAOA’s historic newspaper collection! #WorldBicycleDay #HistoricNewspaper #IndianHistory

From Amrita Bazar Patrika, read it here: https://t.co/zKg7uEQiOH

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Has preparing for finals, or graduation, or summer worn you out? Please Yourself!

#FinalExams #Finals #Graduation #SelfCare #SAOA

Advertisement from The Khalsa Advocate (April 1913). Read it here: https://t.co/ZKFEp6uHiX

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Are you tired out from studying? Don’t forget to cool down your brain!

Read the Khalsa Advocate here: https://t.co/ZKFEp6uHiX

#FinalExams #Finals #SelfCare

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Tomorrow is World Design Day! Get some inspiration from SAOA’s incredible collection of digitized historic print, like this art deco Assamese font from 1941!

Find it here: https://t.co/oFfQ0ZL4f6

#WorldDesignDay #SAOA #SouthAsia

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It was always cool to celebrate Sri Rama Navami. And even cooler if you make it in the paper!

#HappySriRamaNavami #RamaNavami #HappyBirthdayRama

From the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta. Read it here: https://t.co/z6tVganw8m

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Born in early July? Beware of soft-spoken women, journeys by train, and hunting expeditions, and wear brown for luck! See other predictions for Bengali New Year from 1941 at SAOA.

#BengaliNewYear #SouthAsia #OpenAccess

Read more at: https://t.co/MG74IFwFa4

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Happy Eclipse Day! Dive into the SAOA archives to find all kinds of information on the history of astronomy of South Asia!

#EclipseDay #SouthAsia

From the periodical Abahana, read it here: https://t.co/oFfQ0ZL4f6

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Partition of Berlin announced 2 years after the Partition of India and Pakistan, featured in Amrita Bazar Patrika.

#PartitionOfGermany #Partition #OnThisDay

Read it here: https://t.co/RTnjb0XFTK

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Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, a freedom fighter, politician, and India's first female Ambassador to the Soviet Union and the United States.

#WomenFoundingIndia #WomensHistoryMonth

Holding Institution: Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta

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Ever wonder who the first woman was to graduate from Calcutta University?

#WomenInEducation #WomenFirsts #WomensHistoryMonth

Holding Institution: Roja Muthiah Research Library

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Even in the 19th century, it was cool to donate to libraries! #LibraryDonations #19thCenturyLibraries #OnThisDay #AAS2024

Holding Institution: University of Washington

Read it here: https://t.co/rWctWR6bWo

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Seems like most people could use a little of this magic hair oil! Another classic vintage ad from SAOA’s collections. #VintageAd #Retro #HistoricalNewspaper #OpenAccess

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A watch that knows leap year from 188 ⌚

#WatchesAheadOfTheirTime #BetterThanAnAppleWatch #LeapYear

Read it here: https://t.co/N32aSU4ztx

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The flu is still going around? An 1889 remedy from Jaffna recommends eating a roasted lemon filled with sugar before bed to soothe hoarseness. Explore more at SAOA!

#FluSeason #HomeRemedies #HistoricalNewspapers

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Celebrate the linguistic diversity of South Asia on International Mother Language Day. SAOA has holdings in over 2 dozen languages and counting!

Explore our collections https://t.co/VAonuOmTYi

#InternationalMotherLanguageDay #LinguisticRightsAreHumanRights #LanguageDiversity

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According to Begum Ikramullah, the origins of the Urdu short story can be traced to the satirical pages of the weekly magazine Oudh Punch. See for yourself at the South Asia Open Archives!

#UrduLiterature #KarachiLiteratureFestival

Read it here: https://t.co/y1zGs38HNP

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Feeling alone on Valentine’s Day? Check out these matrimonial ads from the 1940s to remind yourself that at least dating has come a long way since then!

#ValentinesDay #SAOA #SouthAsia #OpenAccess

Source from: https://t.co/rz0g6Meq91

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💕 ❤️ Hey SAOA fans, wondering what kind of Valentine's Day goodies you might find in SAOA?

Scroll through our historic newspapers and what you find might surprise you. 👀

We've got the good, the bad, and even the ugliness of veneral diseases.

Happy Valentine's Day! 💕 ❤️