Bibliography of India

India history books

Single volume works

Primary sources

• Bibliotheca historica: . by Diodorus Siculus, 1st century BC, p. 35‑60.
• Ashokavadana, 2nd century CE

• Ain-i-Akbari,. Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak. 16th century
• Jahangirnama, 16th century
• Padshah Nama, by Muhammad Amin Qazvini. 1646
• Tod, James, Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, 2 vols. London: Smith, Elder.
• H. M. Elliot, Ed. John Dowson, The History of India, as Told by Its Own Historians. The Muhammadan Period, 1867-1877.
• Muḥammad, A. K., & Pandit, K. N.. A Muslim missionary in mediaeval Kashmir: Being the English translation of Tohfatu'l-ahbab. New Delhi: Voice of India.
• Neelesh Ishwarchandra Karkare. Shreenath Madhavji : Mahayoddha Mahadji Ki Shourya Gatha

• The Discovery of India, by Jawaharlal Nehru, 1946.
• Mill, James, edited by Horace Hayman Wilson. The History of British India.

  Secondary sources

• Balagangadhara, S. N.. Reconceptualizing India studies. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
• Bryant, Edwin. The Quest for the origins of Vedic culture. Oxford University Press
• Chakrabarti, Dilip K.: Colonial Indology, 1997, Munshiram Manoharlal: New Delhi.
• Durant, W.. The case for India. Mumbai: Strand Book Stall.
• Inden, R. B.. Imagining India. Bloomington, Ind: Indiana University Press.
• Lal, B. B.. The earliest civilization of South Asia: Rise, maturity, and decline. New Delhi: Aryan Books International.
• Lal, B. B.. India 1947-1997: New light on the Indus civilization. New Delhi: Aryan Books International.
• Lal, K. S.. History of the Khaljis: A.D. 1290-1320. New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal.
• Vishwa Adluri, Joydeep Bagchee: The Nay Science: A History of German Indology. Oxford University Press, New York 2014,
• India after Gandhi, by Ramachandra Guha, 2007.
• Dharampal,.. Indian science and technology in the eighteenth century: Some contemporary European accounts. Goa: Other India.
• Dharampal,.. The beautiful tree: Indigenous Indian education in the eighteenth century. Biblia Impex Private Limited, New Delhi 1983; reprinted by Keerthi Publishing House Pvt Ltd., Coimbatore 1995.
• Panikkar, K. M.. Asia and Western dominance. Millswood, S. Aust: Braille Writing Association of South Australia.
• Priolkar, A.K, 1961, "The Goa Inquisition, Being a Quatercentenary Commemoration Study of the Inquisition in India", Bombay University
• Majumdar, R. C., Raychaudhuri, H., & Datta, K.. An advanced history of India. Delhi: Macmillan India.
• Majumdar, R. C.. Historiography in modern India. London: Asia Publishing House.
• Majumdar, R. C.. History of the freedom movement in India. Calcutta: K. L. Mukhopadhyay.
• Trautmann, Thomas. 1997. Aryans and British India, University of California Press, Berkeley.

• Multivolume works

• Afonso, A. V., Chattopadhyaya, D. P., & Centre for Studies in Civilizations.. History of science, philosophy and culture in Indian civilization: : project of history of Indian science, philosophy and culture. New Delhi.
• Infinity Fountation.. Infinity Foundation series: Contributions to history of Indian science and technology. New Delhi: Pentagon Press.
• The History and Culture of the Indian People, 11 vols, ed. R. C. Majumdar.

  Race, Caste and Tribe

Primary sources

Northern India

Central Provinces

Southern India

Others

• – three volumes, published between 1920–1922
• Hindoo Tribes and Castes, 1872–81, 3 vols by M. A. Sherring

  Secondary sources

• Rajiv Malhotra, Breaking India: Western Interventions in Dravidian and Dalit Faultlines

  Biography

• by Amiya Prosad Sen
• by Subodh Chandra Sengupta
• Rulers of India series
• Lal, B. B.. Piecing together: Memoirs of an archaeologist. New Delhi: Aryan Books International.
• Chakrabarty, D.. The calling of history: Sir Jadunath Sarkar and his empire of truth.
• Nasrin, Taslima. Amar meyebela - My girlhood. Calcutta: People's Book House.
• by Ernest Percival Rhys
• by Patrick Geddes
• by Friedrich Max Müller
• Fauja, S., & Talib, Gurbachan Singh. Guru Tegh Bahadur: Martyr and teacher. Patiala: Punjabi University.
• by Sophia Dobson Collet and Francis Herbert Stead
• by Sister Nivedita
• Satyajit Ray: The Inner Eye: The Biography of a Master Film-Maker by W. Andrew Robinson
• The Life of Ramakrishna by Romain Rolland
• The Springing Tiger by Hugh Toye
• Sarkar, Jadunath. History of Aurangzib. Orient Longman.
• Sarkar, Jadunath. Shivaji and his times. Orient Longman.
• by Meredith Borthwick
• by Blair B. Kling
• by Clinton B. Seely
• by Samiran Kumar Paul, Amar Nath Prasad
• by Samaren Roy
• by Rammohun Roy Centenary Committee
• by Samaren Roy
• Rao, S. R.. Reminiscences of an archaeologist. New Delhi: Aryan Books International.
• by Samaren Roy
• by Brian A. Hatcher
• Rabindranath Tagore – The man and his poetry by Basanta Koomar Roy
• by by Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
• Biography on Great Warrior Shreenath Mahadji Shinde By Neelesh Ishwarchandra Karkare
• Brothers Against the Raj: A Biography of Indian Nationalist Leaders Sarat and Subhas Chandra Bose by Leonard A. Gordon
• by Subal Chandra Mitra
• by Jadunath Sarkar : translation of Chaitanya Charitamrita of Krishnadas Kaviraj
• by Kanailal Basu
• The Man Who Knew Infinity by Robert Kanigel
• The Life of Vivekananada and the Universal Gospel by Romain Rolland
• Majumdar, R. C.. Svami Vivekananda: A historical review. Calcutta: General Printers & Publishers.

  Biographical dictionaries

• , ed. Subodh Chandra Sengupta
• ed. Sibapada Sen
• by C. Hayavadana Rao
• by Charles Edward Buckland
• , a genealogical and biographical dictionary of the ruling princes, chiefs, nobles, and other personages, titled or decorated, of the Indian empire by Roper Lethbridge
• by Thomas William Beale
• Reminiscences and Anecdotes of Great Men of India by Ram Gopal Sanyal ,
• by Kunal Chakrabarti, Shubhra Chakrabarti

  Manuals and gazetteers

• The Imperial Gazetteer of India
• Chaudhuri, S. B. History of the Gazetteers of India, Publication Division, New Delhi.

• Travelogues

• Indica by Megasthenes, c. 300 BCE
• , 414 CE
• Great Tang Records on the Western Regions, by Hiuen Tsang. 646 CE.
• Majumdar, R. C.. The Classical accounts of India: Being a compilation of the English translations of the accounts left by Herodotus, Megasthenes, Arrian, Strabo, Quintus, Diodorus, Siculus, Justin, Plutarch, Frontinus, Nearchus, Apollonius, Pliny, Ptolemy, Aelian, and others with maps. Calcutta: Firma KLM.

• Meenakshi Jain, The India They Saw,,,,.

• Emily Eden. Up the Country
• Begums Thugs and White Mughals. Fanny Parkes, ed. William Dalrymple. 2002
• The Hill of Devi. E. M. Forster, 1953.
• A Walk Along the Ganges. Dennison Berwick. 1985.
• . V. S. Naipaul. 1990.

  Provinces

• Provincial Geographies of India edited by Thomas Henry Holland

  Flora

Fauna

• Lepidoptera Indica
• The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma
• Fletcher, T. B. and Inglis, C. M. . Calcutta & Simla: Thacker, Spink & Co.
• Marshall, G. F. L. and de Nicéville, L., Butterflies of India, Burmah and Ceylon.

  Princely states

Primary sources

• Secondary sources

Spiritual heritage

• Autobiography of a Yogi, by Paramahansa Yogananda. 1946
• The Principal Upanishads, by Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, 1953.
• The Spiritual Heritage of India by Swami Prabhavananda, 1962.
• Frawley, David. How I became a Hindu: My discovery of Vedic dharma.
• Gautier, Francois. The guru of joy: Sri Sri Ravi Shankar & the art of living. Carlsbad, Calif: Hay House.
• Shourie, Arun, Two Saints: Speculations around and about Ramakrishna Paramahamsa and Ramana Maharishi., Harper Collins.

  Folklore

• People, politics and customs

• Elst, K.. Decolonizing the Hindu mind: Ideological development of Hindu revivalism. New Delhi: Rupa.
• Arun Shourie, & Goel, S. R.. Hindu temples, what happened to them.
• Kishwar, M., & Vanita, R.. In search of answers: Indian women's voices from Manushi : a selection from the first five years of Manushi. Daryaganj, New Delhi: Manohar.
• Christian Missionary Activities Enquiry Committee, & Goel, S. R.. Vindicated by time: The Niyogi Committee report on Christian missionary activities.

  Religion, culture and arts

• Ghose, Aurobindo. The foundations of Indian culture. Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram.
• Dayananda, S., & Bharadwaja, C.. Light of truth, or, An English translation of the Satyartha prakasha: The well-known work of Swami Dayananda Saraswati. Madras: Arya Samaj.
• Sethna, K. D.. Ancient India in a new light. New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan.
• Lokesh, Chandra, & Chandrika, T.. Cultural horizons of India. New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan.
• Kak, S.. The wishing tree: Presence and promise of India. Delhi: Aditya Prakashan.
• Coomaraswamy, Ananda Kentish, London: Probsthain, 1909
• Kishwar, M.. Manushi: Women Bhakta poets. New Delhi: Manushi Trust.
• Frawley, David. Shiva: The lord of yoga. Lotus Press.
• Gupta, S. P., & Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute.. The roots of Indian art: A detailed study of the formative period of Indian art and architecture, third and second centuries B.C., Mauryan and late Mauryan. Delhi: B.R. Publishing Corporation.
• Gupta, S. P., Asthana, S., & Indraprastha Museum of Art and Archaeology.. Elements of Indian art: Including temple architecture, iconography & iconometry. New Delhi: Indraprastha Museum of Art and Archaeology.
• Klostermaier, K. K.. A survey of Hinduism. Albany: State University of New York Press.
• Narain, H.. Facets of Indian religio-philosophic identity. Delhi u.a: Bharatiya Vidya Prakashan.
• Shourie, Arun. Hinduism, essence and consequence: A study of the Upanishads, the Gita, and the Brahma-Sutras. Sahibabad, District. Ghaziabad: Vikas.
• Swarup, R., & Frawley, David. The word as revelation: Names of gods. New Delhi: Voice of India.
• Rajiv Malhotra, Being Different: An Indian Challenge to Western Universalism
• Rajiv Malhotra, Indra's Net: Defending Hinduism's Philosophical Unity
• Rajiv Malhotra, Battle for Sanskrit

• Fiction

• Caṭṭopādhyāẏa, Bankim, & Roy, B. K.. Anandamath.
• Journey to the West, by Wu Cheng'en. 1590s
• Passage to India, by E. M. Forster
• Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, Kim and many short story collections
• Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, The Householder, Heat and Dust
• The Siege of Krishnapur, by J. G. Farrell
• John Masters, Nightrunners of Bengal and other novels
• Rushdie, Salman. Midnight's children. London: Vintage.
• Paul Scott's Raj Quartet
• Zadie Smith, White Teeth