Bibliography of India

India history books

Single volume works

Primary sources

• Diodorus Siculus, 1st century BC. "." Pp. 35–60 in Bibliotheca historica.Ashokavadana, 2nd century CE

• ibn Mubarak, Abu'l-Fazl. 16th century. Ain-i-Akbari, Akbarnama Vol. 3. .
• Jahangir, Nur-ud-din Muhammad. 16th century. Tuzk-e-Jahangiri.
• Kashmiri, Muhammad Ali. 1642. Tohfatu'l-ahbab.
• Qazvini, Muhammad Amin. 1646. Padshah Nama.

• Nehru, Jawaharlal. 1946. The Discovery of India.
• Mill, James. 1817, 1820, 1826. The History of British India, edited by Horace Hayman Wilson.

Secondary sources

• Balagangadhara, S. N. 2012. Reconceptualizing India Studies. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
• Bryant, Edwin. 2001. The Quest for the Origins of Vedic Culture. Oxford University Press
• Chakrabarti, Dilip K. 1997. Colonial Indology. New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal.
• Durant, W. 2011. The Case for India. Mumbai: Strand Book Stall.
• Inden, R. B. 2010. Imagining India. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.
• Karkare, Neelesh Ishwarchandra. 2014. Shreenath Madhavji: Mahayoddha Mahadji Ki Shourya Gatha.
• Lal, B. B. 1997. The earliest civilization of South Asia: Rise, maturity, and decline. New Delhi: Aryan Books International.
• —— 1998. India 1947-1997: New light on the Indus civilization. New Delhi: Aryan Books International.
• Lal, K. S. 1980. History of the Khaljis: A.D. 1290-1320. New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal.
• Adluri, Vishwa, and Joydeep Bagchee. 2014. The Nay Science: A History of German Indology. New York: Oxford University Press.
• Guha, Ramachandra. 2007. India after Gandhi.
• Dharampal. 1995. The beautiful tree: Indigenous Indian education in the eighteenth century. New Delhi: Biblia Impex Private Limited.
• —— 2000. Indian science and technology in the eighteenth century: Some contemporary European accounts. Goa: Other India Press.
• Panikkar, K. M. 1965. Asia and Western dominance. Millswood, AU: 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, Ramesh C. 1962. History of the Freedom Movement in India, 3 vols. Calcutta: K. L. Mukhopadhyay..
• —— 1970. Historiography in Modern India. London: Asia Publishing House.
• Majumdar, Ramesh C., Hem C. Raychaudhuri, and Kalikinkar Datta. 2007. An Advanced History of India. Delhi: Macmillan India.
• Trautmann, Thomas. 1997. Aryans and British India. Berkeley: University of California Press.
• Sen, Amartya. 2005. The Argumentative Indian. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
• Elphinstone, Mountstuart. 1841. The History of India, 2 vols. London: John Murray. , .
• Sachau, Eduard C. 1910. Alberuni's India — An account of... India about A.D. 1030, 2 vols. London: Kegan Paul, Trench Trubner & Co.Ltd. , .
• Elliot, Henry M. 1867–1877. The History of India, as Told by Its Own Historians. The Muhammadan Period, 8 vols., edited by J. Dowson.

Multivolume works

• Firishta, Muhammad. 1794. Ferishta's History of Dekkan..., 2 vols., translated by J. Scott, Jonathan. London: John Stockdale. vol. 1, vol. 2.
• Tod, James. 1829, 1832. Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, 2 vols. London: Smith, Elder.
• Chattopadhyaya, Debbi P., ed. 2009. Project of History of Indian Science, Philosophy and culture, 20 vols. Centre for Studies in Civilizations.
• Jackson, A. V. Williams, ed. 1906–1907. History of India, 10 vols. London: Grolier Society.
• *Smith, Vincent Arthur. 1906. History of India, vol. 2: From Sixth century B.C to Mohammedan Conquest.
• *Lane-Poole, Stanley. 1906. History of India, vol. 3: From Mohammedan Conquest to the Reign of Akbar the Great.
• *—— 1906. History of India, vol. 4: From Reign of Akbar the Great to the Fall of Moghul Empire.
• *Elliot, Henry M. 1907. History of India, vol. 5: The Muhammadan Period as Described by Its Own Historians.
• *Hunter, William Wilson. 1906. History of India, vol. 6: From the first European settlements to the founding of the English East India Company.
• *—— 1906. History of India, vol. 7: The European struggle for Indian supremacy in the seventeenth century.
• *Lyall, A. C. 1907. History of India, vol. 8: From the close of the seventeenth century to the present time.
• *Jackson, A. V. Williams. 1907. History of India, vol. 9: Historic accounts of India by foreign travellers, classic, oriental, and occidental.
• Majumdar, Ramesh C. 1951–1969. The History and Culture of the Indian People, 11 vols. Mumbai: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan.
• Malhotra, Rajiv. 2012. Infinity Foundation series: Contributions to history of Indian science and technology, 20 vols. New Delhi: Pentagon Press.

Race, caste and tribe

Primary sources

• Sherring, M. A. 1872–81. Hindoo Tribes and Castes, 3 vols.

Northern India

• Crooke, William. 1896. The tribes and castes of the North-western Provinces and Oudh, 4 vols. Calcutta: Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing.
• *Volume I
• *Volume II
• *Volume III
• *Volume IV
• Rose, Horace Arthur, and Edward Douglas MacLagan. 1911–1919. A Glossary of the Tribes and Castes of the Punjab and North-West Frontier Province, 3 vols. Lahore: Samuel T. Weston at the Civil and Military Gazette Press.

Central Provinces

• Enthoven, Reginald Edward. 1920–1922. The Tribes and Castes of Bombay, 3 vols. Bombay: Government Central Press.
• Russell, Robert Vane. 1916. Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India, 4 vols. Rai Bahadur Hira Lal. London: Macmillan & Co.
• *Volume I
• *Volume II
• *Volume III
• *Volume IV

Southern India

• Thurston, Edgar, and K. Rangachari. 1909. Castes and Tribes of Southern India, 7 vols. Madras: Government Press.
• *Volume I (A to B)
• *Volume II (C to J)
• *Volume III (K)
• *Volume IV (K to M)
• *Volume V (M to P)
• *Volume VI (P to S)
• *Volume VII (T to Z)

Secondary sources

• Malhotra, Rajiv. 2011. Breaking India: Western Interventions in Dravidian and Dalit Faultlines. Amaryllis..

Biography

• Basu, Kanailal. 2010. .
• Borthwick, Meredith. 1977. Keshub Chunder Sen: a search for cultural synthesis.
• Chakrabarty, D. 2016. The Calling of History: Sir Jadunath Sarkar and His Empire of Truth.
• Collet, Sophia Dobson, and Francis Herbert Stead. 1914. The Life and Letters of Raja Rammohun Roy, edited by Hem Chandra Sarkar.
• Fauja, S., and Gurbachan Singh Talib. 1996. Guru Tegh Bahadur: Martyr and Teacher. Patiala: Punjabi University.
• Geddes, Patrick. 1920. The Life and Work of Sir Jagadis C. Bose.
• Gordon, Leonard A. 1990. Brothers Against the Raj: A Biography of Indian Nationalist Leaders Sarat and Subhas Chandra Bose.
• Hatcher, Brian A. 2014. .
• Hunter, William Wilson. 1889. Rulers of India series, 28 vols.
• Kanigel, Robert. 1991. The [Man Who Knew Infinity (book)|The Man Who Knew Infinity].
• Karkare, Neelesh Ishwarchandra. Biography on Great Warrior Shreenath Mahadji Shinde.
• Kaviraj, Krishnadas. 1582. Chaitanya Charitamrita.
• * translated in Sarkar, Jadunath, trans. 1922. Chaitanya's Life and Teachings.
• Kling, Blair B. 1976. Partner in Empire: Dwarkanath Tagore and the Age of Enterprise in Eastern India.
• Lal, B. B. 2011. Piecing together: Memoirs of an archaeologist. New Delhi: Aryan Books International.
• Majumdar, R. C. 1967. Svami Vivekananda: A Historical Review. Calcutta: General Printers & Publishers.
• Max Müller, Friedrich. 1916. Ramakrishna: His Life and Sayings.
• Mitra, Subal Chandra. 1902. Isvar Chandra Vidyasagar, a story of his life and work.
• Nasrin, Taslima. 1999. Amar Meyebela - My Girlhood. Calcutta: People's Book House.
• Paul, Samiran Kumar, and Amar Nath Prasad. 2006. .
• Radhakrishnan, Sarvepalli. 1919. The Philosophy of Rabindranath Tagore.
• Rao, S. R. 2008. Reminiscences of an archaeologist. New Delhi: Aryan Books International.
• Rhys, Ernest P. 1916. Rabindranath Tagore: A Biographical Study.
• Robinson, W. Andrew. 1989. Satyajit Ray: The Inner Eye: The Biography of a Master Film-Maker. , vol. 2.
• Rolland, Romain. The Life of Ramakrishna.
• —— The Life of Vivekananada and the Universal Gospel.
• Roy, Basanta Koomar. 1915. Rabindranath Tagore – The man and his poetry.
• Roy, Samaren. 1986. .
• —— 1988. .
• —— 1997. .
• Sarkar, Jadunath. 1981. History of Aurangzib. Orient Longman.
• —— 2012. Shivaji and His Times. Orient Longman.
• Sister Nivedita. 1910. The Master as I Saw Him
• Seely, Clinton B. 1990. .
• Sen, Amiya Prosad. 2008. .
• Sengupta, Subodh Chandra. 1977. .
• Toye, Hugh. 1959. The Springing Tiger.
• Yogananda, Paramahansa. 1946. Autobiography of a Yogi.
• . Rammohun Roy Centenary Committee. 1935.

Biographical dictionaries and encyclopedias

• , ed. Subodh Chandra Sengupta
• ed. Sibapada Sen
• The Indian Biographical Dictionary by C. Hayavadana Rao
• Dictionary of Indian biography by Charles Edward Buckland
• Who's Who in India Supplement 1
• Who's Who in India Supplement 2
• The Golden Book of India, a genealogical and biographical dictionary of the ruling princes, chiefs, nobles, and other personages, titled or decorated, of the Indian empire by Roper Lethbridge
• The Oriental Biographical Dictionary by Thomas William BealeReminiscences and Anecdotes of Great Men of India by Ram Gopal Sanyal Vol 1, Vol 2
• by Kunal Chakrabarti, Shubhra Chakrabarti

Manuals and gazetteers

• Chaudhuri, S. B. 1964. History of the Gazetteers of India. New Delhi: Publication Division.
• ''The Imperial Gazetteer of India''

Travelogues

Early period

• 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.

Early modern period

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

Late modern

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

Provinces

• Holland, Thomas Henry, ed. Provincial Geographies of India.

Biodiversity and environment

• Karan, P. P. "Environmental movements in India." Geographical Review 84#1 : 32-41.
• Nayak, Arun Kumar. "Environmental movements in India." Journal of developing societies 31.2 : 249-280.
• Saravanan, Velayutham. Environmental History of Modern India: Land, Population, Technology and Development ; also see excerpt at Amazon]
• Shiva, Vandana. "Ecology Movements in India", in Oomen, T. K., Social Movements: Issues of Identity
• Turaga, Rama Mohana R., and Anish Sugathan. "Environmental regulations in India." in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Environmental Science

Fauna

• Lepidoptera Indica
• The [Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma]
• Fletcher, Thomas B., and Charles M. Inglis. 1924. Birds of an Indian Garden. Calcutta & Simla: Thacker, Spink & Co.
• Marshall, George F. L. and Lionel de Nicéville. Butterflies of India, Burmah and Ceylon.

Princely states

People, politics and customs

• 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.
• Goel, S. R. 1998. Vindicated by Time: The Niyogi Committee Report on Christian Missionary Activities. Madhya Pradesh: Christian Missionary Activities Enquiry Committee.

Religion, culture and arts

• Coomaraswamy, Ananda Kentish. 1909. The Indian Craftsman. London: Probsthain.
• Ghose, Aurobindo. 1998. The Foundations of Indian Culture. Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram.
• Gupta, S. P., and S. Asthana. 2007. Elements of Indian Art: Including Temple Architecture, Iconography & Iconometry. New Delhi: Indraprastha Museum of Art and Archaeology.
• Gupta, S. P., & Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute. 2011. 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.
• Kak, S. 2015. The Wishing Tree: Presence and Promise of India. Delhi: Aditya Prakashan.
• Kishwar, M.. Manushi: Women Bhakta poets. New Delhi: Manushi Trust.
• Lokesh, Chandra, and T. Chandrika. 1997. Cultural Horizons of India. New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan.
• Malhotra, Rajiv. 2011. Being Different: An Indian Challenge to Western Universalism. HarperCollins India..
• —— 2016. Battle for Sanskrit. Harper Collins India..
• Robinson, W. Andrew. 1989. Satyajit Ray: The Inner Eye: The Biography of a Master Film-Maker. , vol. 2.
• Sethna, K. D.. Ancient India in a New Light. New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan.

Performance art

• Shourie, Arun. 1979. Hinduism, Essence and Consequence: A Study of the Upanishads, the Gita, and the Brahma-Sutras. Sahibabad, District. Ghaziabad: Vikas.

Religion, folk tales, and spiritual heritage

• Crooke, William. 1896. An Introduction to the Popular Religion and Folklore of Northern India, 2 vols. North-Western Provinces and Oudh: Government press.
• *Volume I
• *Volume II
• Dayananda, S., and C. Bharadwaja. 1932. Light of Truth, or, An English translation of the Satyartha Prakasha: The Well-Known Work of Swami Dayananda Saraswati. Madras: Arya Samaj.
• Elst, K. 2014. Decolonizing the Hindu Mind: Ideological Development of Hindu Revivalism. New Delhi: Rupa.
• Frawley, David. 2014. How I became a Hindu: My Discovery of Vedic Dharma.
• —— 2015. Shiva: The Lord of Yoga. Lotus Press.
• Gautier, Francois. 2008. The Guru of Joy: Sri Sri Ravi Shankar & the Art of Living. Carlsbad, Calif: Hay House.
• Klostermaier, K. K. 2007. A Survey of Hinduism. Albany: State University of New York Press.
• Malhotra, Rajiv. 2014. Indra's Net: Defending Hinduism's Philosophical Unity. HarperCollins India..
• Narain, H. 1983. Facets of Indian Religio-Philosophic Identity. Delhi u.a: Bharatiya Vidya Prakashan.
• Prabhavananda, Swami. 1962. The Spiritual Heritage of India.
• Radhakrishnan, Sarvepalli. 1953. The Principal Upanishads.
• Shourie, Arun. 2017. Two Saints: Speculations around and about Ramakrishna Paramahamsa and Ramana Maharishi. Harper Collins.
• Shourie, Arun, and S. R. Goel. 2009. Hindu Temples, What Happened to Them.
• Swarup, R., and David Frawley. 2001. The Word as Revelation: Names of Gods. New Delhi: Voice of India.
• Yogananda, Paramahansa. 1946. Autobiography of a Yogi.

Fiction

• Chatterjee, Bankim Chandra. 2014. Anandamath, edited by B. K. Roy.
• Farrell, James G. 1973. The Siege of Krishnapur.
• Forster, E. M. 1924. Passage to India.
• Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer. 1960. The Householder.
• —— 1975. Heat and Dust.
• Kipling, Rudyard. 1894. The Jungle Book.
• —— 1901. Kim.
• Masters, John. 1951. Nightrunners of Bengal.
• Rushdie, Salman. 1981. Midnight's Children.
• Scott, Paul. 1965–75. Raj Quartet.
• Smith, Zadie. 2000. White Teeth.
• Wu Cheng'en. c. 1590s. Journey to the West.