Electronic Resources

In addition to the Library’s collections in print and microform, electronic resources provide digital access to select South Asian newspapers. This page provides country-wise lists of newspaper titles according to type of e-resource (freely available or subscription) and type of newspaper (historical or contemporary). See the E-Resources Online Catalog to browse the Library's full collection of e-resources and databases.

Please note that subscription e-resources are accessible on-site when using one of the Library’s public computers or when your personal device is connected to the Library’s WiFi. If you are unable to visit the Library, you may be able to access these subscription e-resources through your local public or university library.

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South Asian Newspapers Accessible through E-Resources by Type of Access

Please Note: The following historical newspapers have some issues that are freely available online through various e-resources. There may be significant gaps within the range of years given in the table below. Links to titles of newspapers will lead to content as available on external websites, which are marked with an arrow External. Links to names of e-resources will retrieve more information from the E-Resources Online Catalog.

Country	Title	City	Language	E-Resource	Range of years
Bangladesh	Bengal times External	Kolkata (Calcutta)	Bengali, English	South Asia Open Archives	1876-1900
Bangladesh	Eastern Bengal and Assam era External	Dhaka	English	South Asia Open Archives	1907-1914
Bangladesh	Eastern examiner External	Chittagong	English	East View Global Press Archive - Center for Research Libraries (CRL)	1962-1973
Bangladesh	Pakistan observer External	Dhaka	English	East View Global Press Archive - Center for Research Libraries (CRL)	1962-1971
Bangladesh	Sambada = Sambad External	Dhaka	Bengali	Heidelberg University Library	1948; 1957; 1974
India	Amrita bazar patrika External	Kolkata (Calcutta); Allahabad	English, Bengali	South Asia Open Archives	1870-1947 (weekly, Calcutta); 1898-1947 (bi-weekly, Calcutta); 1898-1949 (daily, Calcutta); 1944-1948 (daily, Allahabad)
India	Behar herald External	Bankipur	English	Center for Research Libraries (CRL)	1913-1916
India	Bengal hurkaru	Kolkata (Calcutta)	English	Library of Congress	1805; 1819
India	Bengal hurkaru and chronicle	Kolkata (Calcutta)	English	Library of Congress	1828; 1829; 1834
India	Bombay chronicle External	Mumbai (Bombay)	English	Center for Research Libraries (CRL)	1920-1921
India	Bombay times and journal of commerce External	Mumbai (Bombay)	English	Center for Research Libraries (CRL)	1857-1858
India	Cutēcamittiraṉ = The swadesamitran External	Chennai (Madras)	Tamil	Center for Research Libraries (CRL)	1887; 1890-1893; 1895; 1901-1904; 1913-1918
India	Dainika basumatī = Dainik basumati External	Kolkata (Calcutta)	Bengali	East View Global Press Archive - Center for Research Libraries (CRL)	1962-1992
India	Dnyānaprakāśa = Dnyan prakash External	Pune	Marathi, English	East View Global Press Archive - Center for Research Libraries (CRL)	1914-1938
India	Englishman External	Kolkata (Calcutta)	English	Endangered Archives Programme	1907; 1913-1919; 1921-1922; 1924-1926; 1929
India	Ganasakti = Ganashakti External	Kolkata (Calcutta)	Bengali	Heidelberg University Library	1938
India	Gorkhā saṃsāra = Gorkha sansar External	Dehradun	Nepali	Digital South Asia Library	1926-1929
India	Hicky's Bengal gazette or the original Calcutta general advertiser External	Kolkata (Calcutta)	English	Heidelberg University Library	1781-1782
India	Himalayan times External	Kalimpong	English	Heidelberg University Library	1949-1963
India	Hindoo patriot External	Kolkata (Calcutta)	English	Endangered Archives Programme	1869; 1872-1874; 1883-1886; 1888; 1891-1895; 1897-1898; 1903; 1905; 1907; 1914
India	Indian mirror Sunday edition External	Kolkata (Calcutta)	English	HathiTrust	1861; 1874; 1877-1880
India	Indu prakāśa = Indu prakash External	Mumbai (Bombay)	Marathi	South Asia Open Archives	1885-1895
India	Kayasare hinda = Kaiser i hind External	Mumbai (Bombay)	English, Gujarati	Center for Research Libraries (CRL)	1919-1920
India	Kerala chronicle External	Thrissur	English	East View Global Press Archive - Center for Research Libraries (CRL)	1962-1963
India	Khalsa advocate External	Amritsar	English, Panjabi	South Asia Open Archives	1903-1923
India	Khālasā samācāra = Khalsa samachar External	Amritsar	Panjabi	Center for Research Libraries (CRL)	1917; 1919-1920
India	Madras times External	Chennai (Madras)	English	Center for Research Libraries (CRL)	1885; 1900-1914
India	Malabar herald External	Kochi	English	East View Global Press Archive - Center for Research Libraries (CRL)	1962-1975
India	Midweek: beyond the headlines External	Gangtok	English	Digital Himalaya	2006
India	Morning chronicle External	Kolkata (Calcutta)	English	South Asia Open Archives	1853
India	Nabasakti = Nava shakti External	Kolkata (Calcutta)	Bengali	Heidelberg University Library	1930-1932
India	Native newspaper reports for Bengal; Bombay; Bombay and Berar; Madras; Panjab, North-Western Provinces, Oudh, Central Provinces, and Berar; United Provinces of Agra and Oudh External	various	English	South Asia Open Archives	various
India	Nētivū ōpiniyanū = Native opinion External	Mumbai (Bombay)	English	Center for Research Libraries (CRL)	1867-1874; 1882-1884
India	New India External	Chennai (Madras)	English	Center for Research Libraries (CRL)	1914-1915
India	Nihar External	Contai, Medinipur (Midnapore)	Bengali	Endangered Archives Programme	1902-1989
India	Poona observer External	Pune	English	Center for Research Libraries (CRL)	1876-1878
India	Samacara candrika = Samachar chandrika External	Kolkata (Calcutta)	Bengali	Heidelberg University Library	1837; 1877-1878
India	Samacara darpana = Samachar darpan External	Srirampur	Bengali	Heidelberg University Library	1837-1838
India	Sambada bhaskara = Sambad bhaskar External	Kolkata (Calcutta)	Bengali	Heidelberg University Library	1849; 1854
India	Sambada prabhakara = Sambad prabhakar External	Kolkata (Calcutta)	Bengali	Heidelberg University Library	1840; 1849-1850; 1853-1857; 1859-1860; 1863-1864
India	Sambada purnacandrodaya = Sambad purnachandrodaya External	Kolkata (Calcutta)	Bengali	Heidelberg University Library	1870-1872
India	Searchlight External	Patna	English	Center for Research Libraries (CRL)	1918-1920
India	Somaprakasa = Somprakash External	Kolkata (Calcutta); Changripota	Bengali	Heidelberg University Library	1862/63; 1880
India	Subodhapatrika = Subodha patrika External	Mumbai (Bombay)	English	Center for Research Libraries (CRL)	1899-1908
India	Svadeśa : sāptāhika patra = Swadesh External	Gorakhpur	Hindi	Center for Research Libraries (CRL)	1919-1922
India	Svadhinata = Swadhinata External	Kolkata (Calcutta)	Bengali	Heidelberg University Library	1951-1957
India	Yugāntara = Jugantar External	Kolkata (Calcutta)	Bengali	South Asia Open Archives	1937-1980
Kenya	East African chronicle External	Nairobi	English	Center for Research Libraries (CRL)	1920-1921
Nepal	Nepali times External	Kathmandu	English	Digital Himalaya	2000-2023
Nepal	Samāja = Samaj External	Lalitpur	Nepali	East View Global Press Archive - Center for Research Libraries (CRL)	1976-1983
Nepal	Saptahik External	Kathmandu	Nepali	Digital Himalaya	2006-2010; 2018-2020
Pakistan	Daily business post External	Karachi	English	East View Global Press Archive - Center for Research Libraries (CRL)	1963-1973
Pakistan	Lahore chronicle External	Lahore	English	East View Global Press Archive - Center for Research Libraries (CRL)	1850-1868
Sri Lanka	Ceylon daily news External	Colombo	English	East View Global Press Archive - Center for Research Libraries (CRL)	1941-1950
Sri Lanka	Ceylon times External	Colombo	English	East View Global Press Archive - Center for Research Libraries (CRL)	1870; 1874
Sri Lanka	Morning star External	Jaffna	English, Tamil	South Asia Open Archives	1841-1854; 1889-1913
Sri Lanka	Star of Islam External	Colombo	English	South Asia Open Archives	1939-1940
Sri Lanka	Times of Ceylon External	Colombo	English	Center for Research Libraries (CRL)	1921
Sri Lanka	Times of Ceylon External	Colombo	English	East View Global Press Archive - Center for Research Libraries (CRL)	1901-1933; 1941-1952
South Africa	Cape Indian External	Cape Town	English	National Library of South Africa	1922-1925
South Africa	Indian opinion External	Durban	English, Gujarati, Hindi, Tamil	Digital Innovation South Africa	1950-1961
South Africa	Indian opinion External	Durban	English, Gujarati, Hindi, Tamil	Gandhi Heritage Portal	1903-1914
South Africa	Indian opinion External	Durban	English, Gujarati, Hindi, Tamil	Gandhi Heritage Portal	1930-1961
South Africa	Views and news External	Durban	English, Gujarati	National Library of South Africa	1963-1968
Switzerland	Bande mataram External	Geneva	English	Center for Research Libraries (CRL)	1911-1913
U.K.	India External	London	English	Center for Research Libraries (CRL)	1890-1899
U.S.	Ghadr External	San Francisco	Panjabi	Center for Research Libraries (CRL)	1913-1917
U.S.	Nepali aawaz External	New York	Nepali	Digital Himalaya	2005-2006

Please Note: The following historical newspapers are marked with a padlock

to indicate that content is available through subscription e-resources, which are only accessible on-site at the Library of Congress. If you are unable to visit the Library, you may be able to access these e-resources through your local public or academic library. There may be significant gaps within the range of years given in the table below. Links to titles of newspapers will lead to available content on external websites, which are marked with an arrow External. Links to names of e-resources will retrieve more information from the E-Resources Online Catalog.

Country	Title	City	Language	E-Resource	Issues available
Egypt	Fauji akhbar (Middle East edition) External	Cairo	Hindi/Urdu romanized	Service Newspapers of World War Two	1943-1946
Egypt	Indian news review External	Cairo	English	Service Newspapers of World War Two	1943-1946
Italy	Sandes: Indian troops weekly External	Rome	Hindi/Urdu romanized	Service Newspapers of World War Two	1944-1945
India	Amrita bazar patrika External	Kolkata (Calcutta)	Bengali, English	South Asian Newspapers	1895-1902; 1905-1922
India	Amrita bazar patrika, biweekly External	Kolkata (Calcutta)	Bengali, English	South Asian Newspapers	1870-1882; 1885-1887; 1893-1895; 1898-1899; 1902-1905; 1911; 1913; 1916; 1919-1921
India	Asiatic mirror and commercial advertiser External	Kolkata (Calcutta)	English	Eighteenth Century Journals	1793; 1798
India	Bankura darpan External	Bankura	Bengali	South Asian Newspapers	1903; 1904; 1907-1908
India	Behar herald External	Bankipur	English	Center for Research Libraries (CRL)	1948-1952
India	Bengal hurkaru and chronicle External	Kolkata (Calcutta)	English	British Online Archives - World News in Indian Newspapers	1822-1866
India	Bengal lottery External	Kolkata (Calcutta)	English	Eighteenth Century Journals	1793
India	Bengal times External	Kolkata (Calcutta)	English	British Online Archives - World News in Indian Newspapers	1876-1908
India	Blitz External	Mumbai (Bombay)	English	Center for Research Libraries (CRL)	1952-1961
India	Bombay chronicle External	Mumbai (Bombay)	English	Center for Research Libraries (CRL)	1937; 1942; 1949
India	Bombay chronicle External	Mumbai (Bombay)	English	Center for Research Libraries (CRL)	1931
India	Bombay courier (links to volumes in E-Resources Online Catalog)	Mumbai (Bombay)	English	Eighteenth Century Journals	1793-1796; 1798-1817
India	Bombay gazette (links to volumes in E-Resources Online Catalog)	Mumbai (Bombay)	English	Eighteenth Century Journals	1792; 1813-1814
India	Calcutta chronicle and general advertiser External	Kolkata (Calcutta)	English	NewspaperARCHIVE	1788
India	Calcutta chronicle and general advertiser (links to volumes in E-Resources Online Catalog)	Kolkata (Calcutta)	English	Eighteenth Century Journals	1787-1790
India	Calcutta Friday morning post and general advertiser External	Kolkata (Calcutta)	English	Eighteenth Century Journals	1793
India	Calcutta gazette or oriental advertiser (links to volumes in E-Resources Online Catalog)	Kolkata (Calcutta)	English	Eighteenth Century Journals	1784-1794
India	Calcutta morning post extraordinary External	Kolkata (Calcutta)	English	Eighteenth Century Journals	1793
India	Cutēcamittiraṉ = The swadesamitran External	Chennai (Madras)	Tamil	Center for Research Libraries (CRL)	1930-1956 (scattered); 1960-1977
India	Dēśabratī = Deshabrati External	Kolkata (Calcutta)	Bengali	Center for Research Libraries (CRL)	1967-1970
India	Friend of India External	Kolkata (Calcutta)	English	Nineteenth Century UK Periodicals	1835-1876
India	Friend of India and Statesman External	Kolkata (Calcutta)	English	Nineteenth Century UK Periodicals	1877-1883; 1894-1900
India	Hicky's Bengal gazette or Calcutta general advertiser External	Kolkata (Calcutta)	English	Eighteenth Century Journals	1780-1782
India	Hindu External	Chennai (Madras)	English	Center for Research Libraries (CRL)	1936
India	Hindu, illustrated Sunday edition External	Chennai (Madras)	English	Center for Research Libraries (CRL)	1936
India	Hindustan times External	New Delhi	English	Center for Research Libraries (CRL)	1947-1948
India	Hircarrah External	Chennai (Madras)	English	Eighteenth Century Journals	1794
India	India gazette External	Kolkata (Calcutta)	English	British Online Archives - World News in Indian Newspapers	1782-1788; 1822-1840; 1842-1843
India	India gazette External	Kolkata (Calcutta)	English	NewspaperARCHIVE	1790
India	India gazette External	Kolkata (Calcutta)	English	Eighteenth Century Journals	1793
India	India gazette or Calcutta public advertiser (links to volumes in E-Resources Online Catalog)	Kolkata (Calcutta)	English	Eighteenth Century Journals	1780-1782; 1785; 1795
India	Indian people External	Allahabad	English	South Asian Newspapers	1903-1909
India	Kayasare hinda = Kasier i Hind External	Mumbai (Bombay)	English, Gujarati	South Asian Newspapers	1882-1922
India	Leader External	Allahabad	English	South Asian Newspapers	1909-1922
India	Leader External	Allahabad	English	Center for Research Libraries (CRL)	1941-1942
India	Madras courier (links to volumes in E-Resources Online Catalog)	Chennai (Madras)	English	Eighteenth Century Journals	1790-1792
India	Madras gazette (links to volumes in E-Resources Online Catalog)	Chennai (Madras)	English	Eighteenth Century Journals	1795; 1799; 1809
India	Madras mail External	Chennai (Madras)	English	South Asian Newspapers	1868-1889
India	Mussalman External	Kolkata (Calcutta)	English	Center for Research Libraries (CRL)	1931-1934
India	National herald External	Lucknow	English	Center for Research Libraries (CRL)	1947
India	Oriental observer External	Kolkata (Calcutta)	English	Nineteenth Century UK Periodicals	1828-1833
India	Oriental observer and literary chronicle External	Kolkata (Calcutta)	English	Nineteenth Century UK Periodicals	1837; 1839
India	People's age External	Mumbai (Bombay)	English	Center for Research Libraries (CRL)	1945-1947
India	Pioneer External	Allahabad	English	South Asian Newspapers	1865-1903
India	Statesman External	Kolkata (Calcutta)	English	Center for Research Libraries (CRL)	1926-1928; 1936-1937
India	Svadeśa : sāptāhika patra = Swadesh External	Gorakhpur	Hindi	Center for Research Libraries (CRL)	1923-1929
India	Times of India External	Mumbai (Bombay)	English	ProQuest Historical Newspapers	1861-2010
India	World External	Kolkata (Calcutta)	English	Eighteenth Century Journals	1794
Kenya	Indian voice of British East Africa External	Nairobi	English	African Newspapers	1911-1913
Nepal	Gorkhāpatra = Gorkhapatra External	Kathmandu	Nepali	Center for Research Libraries (CRL)	1965-1977
Nepal	Rāshtra pukāra = Rashtra pukar External	Kathmandu	Nepali	Center for Research Libraries (CRL)	1970-1973; 1979-1995
Pakistan	Civil and military gazette External	Lahore	English	Service Newspapers of World War Two	1939-1945
Pakistan	Dawn External	Karachi	English	Center for Research Libraries (CRL)	1949
Pakistan	Tribune External	Lahore	English	Center for Research Libraries (CRL)	1923-1936; 1938-1946; 1963
Pakistan	Tribune External	Lahore	English	South Asian Newspapers	1881; 1883-1922
South Africa	Indian opinion External	Durban	English, Gujarati, Hindi, Tamil	African Newspapers	1903-1922
Sri Lanka	Ceylon daily news External	Colombo	English	Center for Research Libraries (CRL)	1958
Sri Lanka	Ceylon observer External	Colombo	English	South Asian Newspapers	1864-1922
Sri Lanka	Times of Ceylon External	Colombo	English	Center for Research Libraries (CRL)	1923

Please Note: Searching the Library's E-Resources Online Catalog is a good way to discover which e-resources offer current or more recent issues of some South Asian newspapers. You can also browse the following subscription e-resources featuring South Asian content. These are marked with a padlock

to indicate that they are only accessible on-site at the Library of Congress. If you are unable to visit the Library, you may be able to access these e-resources through your local public or university library. Links to titles of e-resources will lead to their external websites, which are marked with an arrow External.

Factiva External This link opens in a new window
Factiva is a vast full text archive of publications and up-to-the-minute reports and news focusing on global developments and business. Combines over 35,000 sources from the Dow Jones Interactive and Reuters Business Briefing to provide premium business content from 200 countries and in 26 languages. Factiva is very strong in trade journals and company reports.
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Nexis Uni External This link opens in a new window
Contains over 6,000 news, business, and legal sources, including deep backfiles and up-to-the-minute stories in national and regional newspapers, wire services, broadcast transcripts, international news, and non-English language sources. Use the included Company Dossier module to retrieve detailed company information and financial performance measures or identify and compare companies matching specific criteria. Areas covered include:
- NEWS Full text of hundreds of newspapers, magazines, and newswires from the U.S. and around the world Hard-to-find broadcast transcripts from the major television and radio Spanish, French, German, Italian, Dutch and other foreign-language newspapers and magazines
- LEGAL Comprehensive coverage of US federal and state case law and statutory law Law review articles from over 500 publications Legal news from more than 300 legal newspapers, magazines, and newsletters Patents from 1971 forward
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PressReader External This link opens in a new window
PressReader provides instant online access to today's newspapers and popular periodicals from around the world in full-color, full-page format. The ever-expanding collection currently includes more than 6,000 U.S. and international titlesfrom over 100 countries in over 60 languages. Just like reading a print edition, viewers can browse articles and other key content, such as pictures, advertisements, classifieds, and notices. The service also provides up to a 60-day backfile and the ability to perform keyword searches across all titles and the entire backfile.
ProQuest International Newsstream External This link opens in a new window
Proquest International Newsstream provides the most recent news content outside of the US and Canada, with archives which stretch back decades featuring newspapers, newswires, and news sites in active full-text format. International Newsstream provides information from more than 660 of the world's top newspapers, including The Times (London), The Bangkok Post, El Norte, Financial Times, The Guardian, Jerusalem Post, South China Morning Post, The Daily Telegraph, Asian Wall Street Journal, and the BBC Monitoring series of publications.

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