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subject and special area collections sponsored and for the greater
part financially supported by the German Research Society (Deutsche
Forschungsgemeinschaft) and its predecessor, the Emergency
Association of German Research (Notgemeinschaft der Deutschen
Wissenschaft). This programme, originally initiated in 1920, was
meant to help German academic libraries to purchase foreign
academic literature in a difficult period of German history. After an
interruption during the Second World War the programme was
reinstated in 1949.

Today most major academic libraries in the Federal Republic
of Germany are participating in this acquisition programme. Besides
the oriental collections in Tuebingen for the Middle East and South
Asia there are special oriental collections for East Asian and
Southeast Asian studies at the State Library in Berlin, for Egyptology
at the University Library in Heidelberg, for non-conventional
literature, literature not available through conventional channels,
from East Asia at the Library of the Institute of Asian Affairs in
Hamburg and finally for such literature from the Near East at the
Library of the Orient Institute in Hamburg.

Among the libraries participating in this supra-regional
programme the University Library in Tuebingen has been entrusted
with collecting research literature in three different fields of oriental
studies.

Among these extensive collections that part concerning
indology should be given special attention. During the past 20 years
it has grown from a collection of classical indology to a special area
collection covering all the countries of South Asia — India, Sri Lanka,
Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, the Maldive Islands and Tibet
before 1956. Academic literature on all phases of the humanities and
social science in the countries mentioned above is included. Modern
natural Sciences and Western medicine are excluded. Literature on
Ayurvedic and other types of indigenous medicine, astronomy and
mathematics, however, is collected. Literature on Hinduism in its
Indian and Nepalese forms and Buddhism in its Indian and Tibetan
forms naturally belong to this collection also.

One sub-section of this indological collection is that of
Dravidian languages and literatures of South India and Sri Lanka. As
already pointed out, in the middle of the 19th century the German

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