SAMP Recent Meetings

Meeting minutes & agendas for SAMP meetings since 1995.

New Proposals

This section details proposals recently approved by SAMP.

Proposal Guidelines

Tips and guides for submission of new proposals.

Other Announcements:

• The 2008 meeting of SAMP was held at the Association for Asian Studies meeting (2008), Atlanta, GA:
  
  SAMP Business Meeting
  Friday, April 4, 2008
  7-9 pm
  Hyatt Regency Atlanta
  University Room
  
• SAMP adds partial holdings lists to its site
  See this link for newspapers and serials held by SAMP.
• British Library launches Early Indian Newspapers Webpage

SAMP Grant-Funded Projects

In the past several years, SAMP has sought outside support to fund major filming initiaitves of material from South Asia.  The following is a brief summary of grant awards and project descriptions:

SAMP 19th Century Hindi Project

From 1991-1994, SAMP conducted a three-year grant project sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities to make accessible more than 2,000 nineteenth-century publications in Hindi, the national language of India.  The titles were selected from publications held by the British Library's former India Office Library and Records, now known as the Oriental and India Office Collections (OIOC), preeminent in its holdings of South Asian books.   Records of the titles filmed in this project may be found in CRL's on-line catalog.  For a searchable database of all OIOC holdings, you may consult CRL's Digital South Asia Library page at (http://dsal.uchicago.edu) under Bibliographies.

SAMP 19th Century Hindustani Project 

Similar to the Hindi project in scope, SAMP received a grant award from NEH to undertake the microfilming of the most significant nineteenth-century publications in Hindustani (now usually referred to as Urdu, the national language of Pakistan and a major language of India).  The 3,149 microfilmed titles were selected from the Hindustani Catalogue of the British Library's Oriental and India Office Collections.  The completed project (1992-1995) provides access to virtually all the titles listed in the first two-thirds of the printed catalogue and produced 275 reels of microfilm.  Master negatives reside with the British Library. 

To search this collection, use the British Library's Oriental and Indian Office Collections database. Utilizing only the search parameter of language: Urdu, you will see a list of Urdu holdings at the BL. Those that have a note stating that a microfilm master negative is held by the British Library will also be available from the Center for Research Libraries. Those without that note are not at CRL. Bibliographic records are being prepared for the CRL catalog.

SAMP has submitted a proposal to the American Institute of Pakistan Studies to continue filming the remainder of the Hindustani titles not covered by the grant.
Status:  AIPS does not have the financial means at this time to commit funds.

SAMP Early 20th Century Indian Books Project:

(Microfilming of Indian Publications Project). This ongoing effort aims to preserve and make accessible all 55,992 books listed in The National Bibliography of Indian Literature: 1901-1953 (NBIL) together with the pre-1954 titles in the NBIL supplement. For more information see The Digital South Asia Library: About the Microfilming of Indian Publications Project.

Submissions are welcome to James Simon.