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The INDOLOGY FAQ -- Frequently Asked Questions about INDOLOGY
Welcome to the INDOLOGY Frequently Asked Questions, or FAQ.
This website is a written by members of the INDOLOGY discussion forum, a group of university scholars actively engaged in the study of the languages, history and culture of India, from the ancient period to the Early Modern.
The FAQ is a collaborative, non-profit project, made available to the public as academic outreach. Text in the FAQ is released under the GNU Free Documentation License 1.2.
Editorial control rests with the authors of each part of the FAQ, and with the committee of the INDOLOGY discussion group.[1]
The following link leads to the main: INDOLOGY FAQ.
Contributing to the INDOLOGY FAQ
The FAQ can be accessed for writing and editing only through a password login, and such permission will only be given to members of the INDOLOGY discussion forum, i.e., people who have agreed to abide by the scope and guidelines of the list, and who are active university-level scholars (according to the INDOLOGY constitution).
If you wish to have write-access to the INDOLOGY FAQ, please send a request to the INDOLOGY Committee at the usual address:
indologycommittee@liverpool.ac.uk
Dominik Wujastyk
INDOLOGY Committee member
Help for Contributors
This FAQ uses a web-based software system called "MediaWiki." Please consult the MediaWiki User's Guide for information on using the wiki software. There you will find instructions on how to create new pages, insert headings and sub-headings, and so on.
If you are generally familiar with the conventions of writing Wiki pages, but need your memory jogged occasionally, the above website provides a useful Reference Card.
Writing diacritical marks
Authors contributing to this FAQ normally use the scholarly transliteration of Indian scripts that is standard in professional publications.
You may already be comfortable with Unicode and typing the various accented letters used for the scholarly transliteration of Devanāgarī and other scripts. But if you are not, then John Smith has provided free keyboard programs for Windows and Mac users that make it easy to type āĀ ... ḥḤ etc. See his keyboard handling programs IndUni_Win_keyboard.zip and IndUni_Mac_keyboard.zip at http://bombay.indology.info/software/fonts/induni/. As always, read the instructions! John Smith's programs work well, and are specifically designed to be convenient for indologists. But there are many other tools and techniques available for typing multilingual text.
Other parts of the INDOLOGY website
For other parts of the site please follow these links:
- INDOLOGY: Resources for Indological Scholarship: an adjunct to the INDOLOGY discussion forum.
- INDOLOGY: The List: various details concerning the mailing list.
- SARIT: Search and Retrieval of Indic Texts: a searchable library of Indic texts.
- Virtual e-Text Archive of Indic Texts: an archive of Indic e-texts and Indological software.
- Position and review papers: an archive of articles, papers, and other writings pertinent to Indological studies.
- The INDOLOGY Bookshop: an information service detailing Indological books listed by Amazon.
- Wider indological network resources: a list of external websites and resources of value to Indological research.
- John Smith's home page: a variety of texts, fonts and programs likely to be of interest to Indologists.
- INDOLOGY on Twitter: a listing of all the news and changes associated with the INDOLOGY site.
