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Followings are some useful weblinks

The Annual of Urdu Studies
The Colonial and Asiatic Review Vol. 1, no. 1 (July 1852)-v. 2, no. 6 (June 1853)
The Colonial magazine and East India review Vol. 16, no. 63 (Mar. 1849)-v. 21 [i.e. 22], no. 6 (June 1852)
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East
Journal of South Asian Literature
Seminar
Social Scientist
South Asian Journal
Suedasien.Info
Teaching South Asia

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