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NYUAD Researcher Builds Digital Archive That Indexes Rare and Historical Indian Texts

The archive comprises of 300,000 entries since the early 1800s.

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NYU Abu Dhabi social science faculty and research are frequently featured in local and international media.

Can You Reason with a Radical? On Aurelian Craiutu’s “Why Not Moderation?”
Letters to Young Radicals, the new book by political science professor Aurelian Craiutu, is a valuable, important, and timely contribution to the pressing debate over the future of liberal democracy in the United States.
Los Angeles Review of Books | October 12, 2023

The custodial death of Indian history
Indian archives are in terrible shape. The funds and expertise required to preserve records are seriously lacking. The only hope is to establish a foundation to digitise all records and make them freely available online.
Hindustan Times | March 12, 2023

Interview – Rahul Sagar
Rahul Sagar is a Global Network Associate Professor of Political Science at NYU Abu Dhabi. Prior to this he was Associate Professor of Political Science at Yale NUS College and the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, and Assistant Professor of Politics at Princeton University.
E-International Relations | December 28, 2022

Rahul Sagar’s ‘The Progressive Maharaja’ reclaims a lost statesman
For all the supposition that my friends and I are ‘well-read’, every once in a while something comes along to shake that page-flipping sense of false accomplishment.
Tribune India | October 30, 2022

The Global Punching Bag?
The West knows it must humour India, but not too much
Open Magazine | June 24, 2022

Time flies on social media, but it’s better used to learn something new
Outlook Traveller India | March 29, 2020

New Sources for the Study of Cold War India
Wilson Center | March 16, 2020

Quite the missfit: The nearly two-year-old account describes itself as 'a page with comics about current news, feminism, and pop culture
Mid-Day | January 5, 2020

He preserves Indian history
KhaleejTimes | January 3, 2020

This Professor Has Built A Literal Treasure Trove Of India's Oldest Essays
Huffpost | December 27, 2019

History: Putting India in print: Women's rights', 'A Question of Nationality', 'Moral Sentiments from Kalidasa'-these are some of the pieces that readers of a July 1909 edition of The Arya, styled as a 'monthly journal of light, love, and life', would have encountered.
IndiaToday | December 23, 2019

New database of pre-Independence Indian periodicals from 1857-1947 reflects a nation forging its identity
Firstpost | December 10, 2019

The NYUAD professor mapping the birth of modern India through rare publications
The National | December 9, 2019

The best politics books of 2019
Prospect | December 07, 2019

Saving India‘s Intellectual History Will Require a Massive Effort: Some of India’s historical sources are in dire need of preservation.
The Diplomat | December 15, 2019

Discovering India’s intellectual past
Hindustan Times | December 02, 2019