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Posted by: Jonathan Loar
The Asian Division is now accepting applications for its Florence Tan Moeson Fellowship, which supports short-term research visits to the Asian Reading Room at the Library of Congress. This year's application deadline is before midnight (ET), Sunday, January 11, 2026 for the 2026 fellowship cycle.
Posted in: Asian Division, East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia
Posted by: Joshua Kueh
The Library’s Asian Division is pleased to announce the digitization of the Hindi and Urdu editions of “Hindostan,” a propaganda newspaper for South Asian prisoners of war (POWs) held in Germany during World War I. The Asian Division is notable for having nearly complete runs of this pro-German newspaper, which was published in Berlin from March 1915 to August 1918. A total of 159 issues of the Hindi and Urdu editions are now freely available in the South Asian Digital Collection.
Posted in: Asian Division, South Asia, World War I