General Resources
- Global Hindu Electronic Network
- The Hindu: Online Edition of India's National Newspaper
- Complete daily edition of the paper, a chat room and net forum, as well as a World Wide Web index in the indiaPages.
- Indian Literary Classics Home Page at Geocities
- A small collection of literary resources, including Kalidasa, the Bhagavadgita, and the Kamasutra, maintained by G. N. Reddy, PhD, Organic Chemstry, Oregon State University.
- Harappa
- Commercial site run by Omar Khan, Jim McCall; Indian history and culture before 1947; Indus civilization
- The Indian Express
- News and financial news about India online
Harappa/Mohenjodaro/Indus Valley Civilization
A History of India and Hindu Dharma
Accounts of the Aryan and anti-Aryan histories of India by Neha K. Desai, masters of science student in Industrial Engineering at the University of Manitoba
Harappa
Commercial site run by Omar Khan, Jim McCall
The Indus Story
The Smithsonian Institution. Excellent summary of Indus Valley history for an upcoming exhibition.
The Myth of the Aryan Invasion of India
David Frawley. An article critical of mainstream interpretation of the Indus Valley and Aryan-Dravidian conflict.
Peoples and Languages in Pre-Islamic Indus Valley
Dr. Tariq Rahman. Excellent, long article on the Indus Valley discoveries.
Sarasvati-Sindhu Civilization
Dr.
S. Kalyanaraman, Madras, India; village civilization contemporary with Indus Valley civilization.
Hinduism: General Resources
- The Hindu Ethic of Ahimsa
- Long and detailed article from Hinduism Today
- Hinduism
- Pictures, texts, and links created and maintained by Vipul Kapadia, MBA, Systems Support Analyst for NAU Foundation
- Hinduism Today
- On-line magazine of contemporary Hinduism by the Himalaya Academy in Hawaii
Vedic Culture
- Hymns from the Rig Veda
- From Reading About the World, edited by Paul Brians, PhD, Professor, Department of English, Washington State University
- The Naked Saints of India
- A controversial topic in Vedic studies involves the pre-Vedic saints, who are important in Tantra as (maybe) originary founders; this article, orginally published in Values , outlines a non-critical and Tantric history of pre-Vedic religion and its influence on the Vedic religion.
- The Purusha Sukta, the Vedic Hymn on the Supreme Being
- The most important of the Vedic hymns in a translation by V. Sundar
- The Rig Veda
- Selections from The Hindu Scriptures , translated and edited by R. C. Zaehner (Everyman Library, 1966); page maintained by Mountain Man GRAPHICS
- Vedic Culture
Upanishads and Vedanta
- Katha Upanishad
- Edition prepared by P.F. Brown, Mountain Man GRAPHICS
- Upanishadic Philosophy
- A brilliant, introductory set of resources and texts compiled by Sreedhar Chintalapaty, masters student, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Memphis
Jainism
- An Introduction to Jainism
- Brief and accurate description of Jainism as a religion
- Jain History: An Outline
- Outline history from a Jain point of view (which differs from the Western history of Jainism) with detailed articles and links by Yashwant K. Malaiya, Professor, Computer Science Department, Colorado State University
- The Jain World Wide Web Page
- Jainism
- Jain Studies
- Links from DeMontfort University, UK
Vaishnava
- Frequently Asked Questions about Vaishnava
- FAQ for soc.religion.vaishnava
- Sri Vaishnava Home Page
- Texts and images maintained by Mani Varadarajan
Tantrism
- Tantrik Home Page
- Award-winning site with essays and primary texts; maintained by Mike Magee
Indian and Hindu Art
- Alamkara: 5000 Years of Indian Art
- Asian Civilizations Museum, Singapore; National Heritage Board, Singapore; National Museum, New Dehli
- Mohan's Hindu Image Gallery
- Rich resource of images of Hindu gods; by Mohan Avyar
- South and Southeast Asian Art
- Dancing Devata sculpture (12th century) from the collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Indian Music and Dance
- Batish Institute of Indian Music and Fine Arts
- Carnatic Music Reference Articles
- A rich resource of articles published in rec.music.indian.classical, The Hindu, and Indian Express; collected by Mohan Avyar
- Indian Classical Dance Forms
Indian Literature
Primary Texts
- Andal's Thiruppaavai
- A classic Tamil poem in PostScript format in Tamil with an English translation by Dr. K. Srinivasan
- Hymns from the Rig Veda
- From Reading About the World, edited by Paul Brians, PhD, Professor, Department of English, Washington State University
- The Purusha Sukta, the Vedic Hymn on the Supreme Being
- The most important of the Vedic hymns in a translation by V. Sundar
- Shakuntala: A Play by Kalidasa
- Translated by G. N. Reddy, PhD, Organic Chemstry, Oregon State University. Part of the Indian Literary Classics Home Page at Geocities
Bhagavad Gita
- The Bhagavad Gita
- Vermont electronic archive; poorly formatted edition
- Bhagavad Gita, The Song of God
- Short selection of fragments collected by Paul Harrison
- The Song Celestial, or Bhagavad Gita
- Sir Edwin Arnold translation (antiquated English) with no annotations and Indian words; HTML prepared by Shawn Knight, UNIX consultant for Carnegie Mellon University
Bibliographies
- Indus Valley civilization bibliography
- Prepared by Ilona Aranovsky for Harappa.
Newsgroups
- alt.hindu
- alt.religion.vaisnava
- rec.music.indian.classical
- soc.culture.bengali
- soc.culture.india
- soc.culture.indian
©1996, Richard Hooker
For information contact: Richard Hines
Updated 6-6-1999