Special Collections

Many old and rare books related to South Asia and Southeast Asia, such as travelers' accounts, are located in the Special Collections Research Center. The volumes can be found through the Library's online catalog.

Special Collections archives include papers of prominent South and Southeast Asia scholars. Gifts from distinguished scholars in these fields have considerably enriched the local research resources for understanding the region -- among them:

• Kali Charan Bahl
• N. Gerald Barrier
• J. A. B. van Buitenen
  
• LeRoy T. Carlson
  
• Bernard S. Cohn
• Warren J. Day
  
• Edward C. Dimock, Jr.
• Joseph Dimsdale
  
• Cora DuBois
• Joan Rosenfels Eggan
  
• Fred Eggan
• Mircea Eliade
  
• Paul Friedrich
  
• Clifford Geertz
  
• Philip M. Hauser
  
• Bert F. Hoselitz
  
• Kenneth W. Jones
• Donald F. Lach
  
• McKim Marriott
  
• Albert A. Mayer
  
• Richard Peter McKeon
  
• Manning Nash
  
• Maureen L. P. Patterson
• Punci Rala
  
• A. K. Ramanujan
• Lloyd I. Rudolph
• Susanne Hoeber Rudolph
• Edward Shils
  
• James Silverberg
  
• Milton Singer
• Gitel P. Steed 
  
• Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi
  
• Joachim Wach
  
• Susan S. Wadley
  
• William H. and Charlotte Viall Wiser
• Eleanor Zelliot

Records of University units and of scholarly bodies include:

• American Institute of Indian Studies
  
• Helen I. Dennis Collection on the Theosophical Society
  
• Norman Wait Harris Foundation
  
• Robert Redfield, Ford Foundation Cultural Studies
  
• University of Chicago. Committee on Southern Asian Studies
  
• University of Chicago. Department of Anthropology
  
• University of Chicago. Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations
  
• University of Chicago. Philippine Studies Program 
  
• University of Chicago. South Asia Languages and Area Center
  
• World's Columbian Exposition