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List of websites searched

academia.edu – Carnatic Music

archive.org – A digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form

ethnomusicology.org – Society for Ethnomusicology

ictmusic.org – International Council for Traditional Music & Yearbook for Traditional Music

musicresearchlibrary.net – maintained by Arati Rao, Vidya Jayaraman and N. Ramanathan; facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Musicresearchlibraryadmin/ for latest news and updates

narthaki.com – networking tool for the dance community & columns by eminent writers and scholars

ragasurabhi.com – Audio files, songs, quizzes and more (“demystifying the process of appreciating and understanding Carnatic music”)

ruralindiaonline.org People’s Archive of Rural India (PARI)

shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in – Open access for Ph.D. theses from Indian universities (for details, see dropdown list in the search window found there) 

sriramv.com – Madras Heritage and Carnatic Music by music historian V. Sriram

sruti.com – Monthly devoted to Indian classical music, dance and theatre

digital.library.ucla.edu – UCLA Library Digital Collections

unesco.org – Unesco

worldcat.org – Find items in libraries near you