An interesting if journalistic report in The Hindu (14th June 09), giving some insight into the state of online knowledge access at Indian universities…

very few libraries have an online catalogue available. “Even the University of Madras does not have information on its database online,” he [G.Sundar, director of the Roja Muthiah Research Library] says. … Many universities and colleges, have however access to online archives such as JSTOR…

“very few libraries have an online catalogue available”. So, presumably, most universities in India are still using card indexes?