Additional Archives

The Godrej Archives features manuscripts, photographs, memorabilia, printed material, and a large oral history collection documenting the history of the Godrej Group. The archive spans over 100 years of the company’s history. In Gujarati and English.

Bollywood and Beyond: Analyzing the Indian Film Industry through Irfan's Guftagoo Interviews is a research database hosted by the University of Pennsylvania. It focuses on evidence from the popular television series Guftagoo hosted by S. M. Irfan and published by Rajya Sabha Television. Rajya Sabha is the upper-house of the Indian Parliament, and this series of interviews is one of the most original, creative, and reliable sources on the cinema industry.

The Hong Kong Heritage Project’s large oral history collection includes many interviews with entrepreneurs and business leaders and includes video clips. The database is searchable by both topic and interviewee name. In English or Cantonese.

The Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA) Archives, formally launched in 2019, preserves institutional memory and periodically disseminates historical information about the institute to the IIMA community and the general public. It holds a large collection of physical and digitized documents related to the foundation and evolution of the institute. The IIMA Oral History project is a key initiative of IIMA Archives that captures the experiences of several people associated with the institute from its formative years. IIMA Archives also holds a collection of documents and directories related to the business and economic history of India. In English.

The Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad's Archives on India is a digital public good that compiles and maps over 500+ physical and digital archives and repositories relevant to the history and cultural heritage of the Indian subcontinent. This tool is designed to assist historians and archivists in their work.

The National Archives of Singapore’s collection of 3,453 oral histories is searchable by keyword and includes multiple interviews from 1980 onwards with entrepreneurs and business leaders in Singapore. Transcripts and audio are accessible online. In English.

The Reserve Bank of India maintains a database on the Indian economy, including statics and time-series publications. Resources span the real sector, corporate sector, and financial sector, as public finance and socio-economic indicators. In English.

The Tata Central Archives holds over 150,000 documents, including manuscripts, printed material, and memorabilia. It also holds an extensive multi-media collection including audio and video recordings on Tata institutions and about major figures in the Tata group. In English.

The CCOH’s collection includes six interviews made in the 1970s with prominent Argentinean business leaders.

63 oral history interviews were conducted in 1992 with entrepreneurs and others who contributed to the ecotourism industry in Costa Rica. 11 interviews are transcribed, and 41 audio files have been digitized. The collection includes interviews with Jack Ewing and Barry Roberts, interviewed in 2014 for Creating Emerging Markets. In English.

The Oral History Program CPDOC’s collection of 1,000 oral histories includes a wide range of interviews of entrepreneurs active in São Paulo, the leading business center in the country, from the 1950s. In Portuguese.

The Iranian Oral History Project’s 134 oral histories of individuals active in Iran between the 1920s and the 1970s includes interviews with prominent business figures. In English or Persian.

The Elite Africa Project is a Canadian-based global network of scholars working to shift how Africa and its elites are understood through collaborative research and public outreach. The project seeks to disrupt and renew both academic and public discussions of African leadership, and provide tools to researchers, teachers, and students interested in the study of Africa.

The Bancroft Library’s large collection of business leaders’ oral histories includes interviews of business and philanthropy in Peru and the creation of the Hong Kong textile industry between the 1950s and 1990s.

An extensive and searchable oral history collection concerning the operation of the World Bank across emerging markets. The site also has global economic and financial data.