Criteria

Criteria for including authors and publications are:
Authors

(retired) members of Dutch universities and related organizations and institutions;
scholars who were or are appointed at a Dutch university for only a part of their career (Dutch scholars who went abroad, or non-Dutch scholars who got appointed at a Dutch university): the publications of their Dutch period and publications written after their leave which have any connection with their Dutch period (f.e. a contribution to a feliciation volume of a former colleague) are inlcuded;
Dutch people who graduaded from a Dutch university and in another context (for instance privately) have published in the field of South Asian etc. studies
Dutch people who have their PhD degree in the field of South Asian etc. studies, but continued their career in another field.

Types of publications

Included are: monographs, journal articles, contributions to felicitation/commemoration volumes and congress proceedings, reviews, obituaries, PhD theses (irrespective of their contents);
Excluded are: MA theses and archive materials.

Geographical region

South Asia (India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Pakistan)
Tibet
Classical Southeast Asia, reflecting the spread of South Asian cultural elements (ca. 500 – 1500 A.D.)

Disciplines