Digital Collection of the Central Library
of the Archaeological Survey of India

The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), among many interesting multimedia sources, has one of the several digital library projects in India. Its central library has placed around 11,000 books online. Of these, about 2000 are immediately available as scanned PDF e-books. Most books pertain to Indian culture, history, scriptures, art and literature. A full list of available scans is located here and a subset list of available Sanskrit or Sanskritic books here, Also check out some of these books placed online as a part of "The Free Indological Collection" at the Internet Library at archive.org. The complete catalog (retrieved Sep. 2010) for ASI collection is searchable below. easier web interface on this site.


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The direct search on the ASI site is available here.

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