Bodleian Libraries users have trial access to South Asia Commons from Coherent Digital until 30 May 2026. This is an online resource comprising two modules, South Asia Archive and South Asian History and Culture.

South Asia Archive is a collection of 4.5 million pages of documents and published material from across the Indian subcontinent from 1700 to 1953. The collection was originally amassed by the South Asian Research Foundation in Kolkata and contains material relating to economics, politics, law, Indology, gender, archaeology, anthropology, culture, history and education. The content is mostly English, with 15% in South Asian languages, primarily Bengali and Sanskrit.

The second module, South Asian History and Culture, is a comprehensive, full-text repository providing centralised access to millions of pages of South Asian primary source materials from across the internet.

Please send any comments and feedback on the trial to emma.mathieson@bodleian.ox.ac.uk. She would be particularly interested in hearing about experience and usage of the different modules.