Regional Archive

Sources contributed by reading groups, local archives and independent researchers — the material that rarely reaches global databases.

Manuscript
Anatolia·1687

Petition of the Bursa silk weavers

بورصة ايپكچيلر عرضحالی

Guild petition contesting tax farming; useful for economic and social historians.

Script: Ottoman Turkish · Contributed by Bursa city archive volunteers

Oral history
Punjab·1947–52

Recorded memories of Sialkot weavers

سیالکوٹ کے جولاہوں کی یادیں

Twelve interviews on displacement and craft transmission, with transcripts.

Script: Urdu · Contributed by Nuqta community circle, Lahore

Inscription
Malabar·c. 1120

Kerala temple inscription on grain measures

ധാന്യ അളവുകളുടെ ശിലാലിഖിതം

Standardisation of measures; a rare quantitative source for medieval South India.

Script: Vattezhuthu · Contributed by Independent researcher, Kozhikode

Periodical
Bengal·1912–14

Al-Hilal literary column clippings

الہلال

Columns tracing debates on reform and vernacular prose style.

Script: Urdu · Contributed by Kolkata reading group

Photograph
Kano·1930s

Studio portraits of Hausa traders

Photographic series with bilingual captions; material culture and dress history.

Script: Ajami / Latin captions · Contributed by Kano heritage collective