Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
Education Department
Golden Gate Park
San Francisco, CA 94118
Contact: Richard Mellott, Head of Education
Telephone: (415) 668-8921/8922
Fax: (415) 668-8928
Publishes materials for teachers as well as offering tours and programs for teachers. Teachers can also acquire hands-on teaching kits and videos through the museum. Contact the Education Department to receive its annual newsletter.
Asia Society
725 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10021
Contact: Education Department
Telephone: (212) 288-6400
Fax: (212) 517-8315
Publishes curriculum materials on Asia. Contact the Education Department for a complete catalogue.
Bala Books
12520 Kirkham Court, #7
Poway, CA 92064
Contact: Philip Gallelli, Director
Telephone: (800) 679-2252
Fax: (619) 679-6908
Carries a short list of folk tales, religious stories, and cookbooks. Children's books, videocassettes, audiocassettes, and posters are also available.
Center for Asian Studies
University of Texas at Austin
W.C. Hogg Building 4.132 (G9300)
Austin, TX 78712-1194
Contact: Yvette Rosser
Telephone: (512) 471-5811
Fax: (512) 471-4469
E-mail address: outreach@uts.cc.utexas.edu
Has the following materials available for loan: videos, both feature films and documentaries; slides (some include scripts, readings, teacher's notes, fact sheets, or map); and curriculum materials. Requests for materials must be sent two weeks in advance with an alternate date. Materials must be returned within four weeks.
Center for South Asian Studies Program
Jackson School of International Studies
University of Washington at Seattle
303 Thompson Hall
University of Washington, DR-05
Seattle, WA 98195
Contact: Maureen Haley Tarada, Asst.
Director and Outreach Coordinator
Telephone: (206) 543-4800
Fax: (206) 685-0668
E-mail address: tarada@u.washington.edu
This program is supported by the U.S. Department of Education and is responsible for academic programs related to South Asia at the University of Washington. It sponsors a variety of outreach programs in the community.
Center for South Asian Studies
University of California at Berkeley
201 Moses Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720-2310
Contact: Simona Sawhney, Outreach Coordinator
Telephone: (510) 642-3608
Fax: (510) 643-5793
E-mail address: mailto:csas@uclink.berkeley.edu
Offers the South Asia Resource Directory for K12 Teachers (listings of resources for teaching about South Asia).
Center for South Asian Studies
University of Virginia
110 Minor Hall
Charlottesville, VA 22903
Contact: Cindy Benton-Groner, Outreach Coordinator
Telephone: (804) 924-8815
E-mail address: csas@faraday.clas.virginia.edu
Has an extensive list of films and videos available on loan, as well as a resource list on contemporary India. Distributes the South Asia Resource Directory for K-12 Teachers.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Uris Library and Resource Center
1000 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10028-0198
Contact: John D'Addario, Assistant, Teacher Programs, Education
Telephone: (212) 650-2756
Fax: (212) 570-3972
Has materials available for two-week loan free of charge. Must be picked up in person. Teacher packets include: South Asia, Glorification of the Goddess in India, The Ramayana, and The Story of Krishna.
Nataraj Books
7073 Brookfield Plaza
Springfield, VA 22150
Contact: Vinnie Mahajan
Telephone: (703) 455-4996
Fax: (703) 912-9052
Major national distributor of books about and from India. Excellent source of specialized books including Indian comic book versions of the Mahabharata and the Ramayana, posters and postcards of deities, and books of Hindu prayers. Sends out monthly catalogues.
South Asia Gopher
304 International Affairs
Columbia University
420 West 118th Street
New York, NY 10027-7296
Contact: David Magier, South Asia Librarian
Telephone: (212) 854-8046
Fax: (212) 854-2495
E-mail address: magier@columbia.edu
The South Asia Gopher (SAG) is a collection of worldwide network-accessible information resources relating to South Asia. Offers bibliographic resources, links with other South Asia related online resources worldwide, South Asia teaching resources, etc.
The URL is gopher://gopher.cc.columbia.edu:71/11/clioplus/scholarly/South Asia. Or you may gopher to and then navigate down through the menus as follows:
CLIOPlus/SELECTED TOPICS.../
South Asia. Or you may telnet to .
South Asia Program
Cornell University
170 Uris Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853
Contact: Durga Bor
Telephone: (607) 255-8493
Fax: (607) 254-5000
Video lending library has sixty VHS videocassettes about South Asia available for educational purposes free of charge. Subjects include city life, dance, Buddhism, music, history, Hinduism, etc. Also offers an outreach program to schools in the Ithaca area.
South Asia Regional Studies
University of Pennsylvania
820 Williams Hall
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305
Contact: Robert Young
Telephone: (215) 898-7475
E-mail address: dludden@sas.upenn.edu
Contact Dr. Young for a listing of materials available.
Southern Asia Institute
Columbia University
420 West 118th Street
New York, NY 10027
Contact: Barbara Gombach, Assistant Director
Telephone: (212) 854-3616
Fax: (212) 854-6987
E-mail address: bcg2@columbia.edu
Provides K-12 teaching resources. For a listing of materials available, write to this address, or use the South Asia Gopher (see above).
