The China-India Studies database includes a bibliography of key writings on interactions between China and India as well as Chinese language books on the topic. The database also includes timelines that summarize key junctures in the development of Sino-Indian studies, including China-India exchanges in Shanghai before 1949 and between 1949 and 1967, as well as a chronology of China-India interactions during the 1950s.

The highlight of the database is the catalog of relevant archival material in both in India and China. This includes material from the recently declassified materials in the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (NMML) in New Delhi, ranging from telegrams, minutes of meetings, memoranda, reports, correspondence, press clippings, and photographs, among others. The special collection of Nehru’s papers provides vivid details on the interactions and exchanges between China and India in the period of decolonization between 1947 and 1964. This part of the project is funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Catalogs of archival materials collected from the Beijing and Shanghai archives, such as those pertaining to mutual visits and diplomatic meetings after 1949, will also feature on the database.