African Blue Books 1821-1953: A digital collection of government publications of African colonies under Great Britain with a focus on economic development; taxation, and imports and exports.
The Long Emergency: Media and Democracy in India: The Long Emergency Collection was primarily conceived as a series of oral history interviews documenting journalistic praxis around the time of the Indian emergency (1975-1977). To convey a sense of the “spirit of the times,” the collection also includes a selection of material from this period such as films, cartoons, news clippings, government documents, and court judgments. The oral histories collected here suggest some of the many ways in which the ‘Long Emergency’ resonates for readers and researchers today: they are clearly shaped by retrospect—the act of recollection and reflection some 40 years after the fact. Many of the narratives unravel the threads that link the political discourse of the past four decades to the events of the 1970s. Some also recall the ‘prehistory’ of conflicts around press freedom in even earlier events. The Long Emergency Collection is maintained by Srirupa Roy at the Centre for Modern Indian Studies (CeMIS) at the University of Göttingen in Germany.