Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Useful Internet libraries

Online Library

A lot of research material is available online. I am providing you the following library which contains a lot of books free of cost and some of them are rare collections. You can also find this site useful for secondary materials. New books on history, literature and of other genre, a whole lot of things for book lovers.

This library is very useful for those who are looking for Colonial period's book and administrative records such as Settlement Reports, Gazetteers and several other books like travelogue of British officers.

Those interested in socio-religious history, can find books like--Vedas, Quran, Zend Avesta and other philosophical works such as Khayam's Rubaiyee most of them translated in English.

Travelogue of Fa Hien and other Chinese scholars can also be found for those interested Buddhist studies/history. Megasthanese's Indica is also available in English translation.

So enjoy readings and research just paste the link http://www.archive.org/search.php? in your browser and search, download as many books as you wish.

Also let me know your experience and if you wish to share some valuable information you have feel free to write me at mati.du@gmail.com.

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