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Museums & Online Exhibits

National Rail Museum, India

Prince of Wales Museum

The Arts
American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS) - Photo Archive
"The AIIS collection from the Center for Art and Archaeology in Gurgaon, Haryana, India, has over 125,000 photographs in the collection. The images fall into the broad categories of architecture, sculpture, terracotta, painting and numismatics."
Part of the Digital South Asia Library

Asian Historical Architecture - India
Maintained by Tim Ciccone, Yunsheng Huang (UVA)

Center for Electronic Text and Image (CETI) : South Asia Art Archive
University of Pennsylvania Library

The Erotic Arts of India
Includes links to articles and pictures.
From Kamat's Potpourri

Freer Gallery Sackler Gallery - National Museum of Asian Art - Smithsonian

  • Devi: The Great Goddess
    "...this web site looks at the six aspects of the Indian goddess Devi. The site offers additional information on the contemporary and historical worship of Devi, activities for children and families, and a list of resources on South Asian arts and cultures."

Folk Artists of Karnataka
 "Color pictures of folk artists gathered for a cultural meet."

Kamat's Potpourri
"Potpourri of Topics on Indian Society, Culture, Photography and Internet."
Very strong in the Arts of India

The Little Magazine
"The magazine was conceived as a dialogue - a platform which would carry important work in the world languages along with the best of contemporary writing in the South Asian languages. It is not India-specific and addresses a community which is more easily defined in terms of mindspace rather than in purely geographical terms. Our readers have only one common denominator: they are sensitive and are looking for something more than what mainstream publishing can provide them."
Themes of past issues include: Hunger ; Terror ; The Wall ; Belonging ; Looking Back ; Sex & Violence ; Vox ; The Rite Stuff ; Middle Class ; Conflict.

Madhubani Painting
"An on-line exhibit of folk paintings by women artists who live in the Madhubani district of northern India."
By Gene R. Thursby, University of Florida

Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET)

  • Flowers Underfoot
    "...on-line exploration of Indian carpets of the Mughal era was created in conjunction with the international exhibition 'Flowers Underfoot' (November 20, 1997 - March 1, 1998). Examples from the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art illustrate the exceptionally high artistic achievement of Indian carpet weaving during the late sixteenth through the eighteenth century."
    Sections include: Historical Background ; Construction ; Design ; Use ; Works of Art ; Resources ; Activities.

RagaNet
 Electronic magazine on Music and Fine Arts of India

Seattle Art Museum

The South Asian Literary Recordings Project
"...the project has captured the readings of prominent South Asian poets, novelists, and playwrights. The authors recorded so far represent more than fifteen of the languages of India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh."
- Library of Congress New Delhi Office

The Timeless Theater Art Archives
The Arts of India
"The Arts of India are the illustration of the religious life of the Hindus. Like their faith, the arts have been preserved for the past three thousand years, from change and decay, from foreign invasions, and from  the fury of the nature."
Kamat's Potpourri

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