The Digital South Asia Library-Bibliographic Resources Participants of URLC About URC About URLC Report on damage from the August 2000 flood and recovery efforts URLC has made accessible the private Urdu collection of Mr. Abdus Samad Khan. Mr. Samad Khan's library is widely considered one of the world's finest for early Urdu periodicals and printed books.
Holdings are well rounded across all areas of Urdu publishing.
Most imprints date from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and are unavailable at any U.S. library. There are over 26,000 monograph titles in the URLC collection. There are approximately 6000 titles in the database.