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The ruins of Nalanda university, which had well-equipped libraries. The number of volumes in the Nalanda library is not known, but it is estimated to have been in the hundreds of thousands.
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The court of Akbar, an illustration from a manuscript of the Akbarnama, 16th century

This is a bibliography of notable works about India.

India history books

Single volume works

Primary sources

Ancient India
  • Diodorus Siculus, 1st century BC. "Book II: The East." Pp. 35–60 in Bibliotheca historica.
  • Ashokavadana, 2nd century CE
  • Indian Shipping: A history of the sea-borne trade and maritime activity of the Indians from the earliest times{{#if:Mookerji|, Mookerji}. Longmans, Green and Co., Bombay(1912)
  • Ancient Indian Historical Tradition{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Oxford University Press, H. Milford(1922)
  • India as Known to the Ancient World{{#if:Bannerjee|, Bannerjee}. Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, London(1921)
Medieval India
British Raj

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. Template:ISBN
  • The Mughal Empire{{#if:Richards|, Richards}(1995)
  • Guha, Ramachandra. 2007. India after Gandhi.
  • Dharampal. [1983] 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. Template:ISBN.
  • —— 1970. Historiography in Modern India. London: Asia Publishing House.
  • Majumdar, Ramesh C., Hem C. Raychaudhuri, and Kalikinkar Datta. [1946] 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.

Multivolume works

Race, caste and tribe

Primary sources

Northern India

Central Provinces

Southern India

Secondary sources

  • Caste, Society and Politics in India from the Eighteenth Century to the Modern Age{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Cambridge University Press(2001). ISBN 978-0-521-79842-6
  • Kashmiri Pandit Community: A Profile{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Mittal Publications(2006). ISBN 978-81-8324-177-9
  • The Decline of Nair Dominance: Society and Politics in Travancore 1847-1908{{#if:Jeffrey|, Jeffrey}. Sussex University Press(1994). ISBN 0-85621-054-4
  • Malhotra, Rajiv. 2011. Breaking India: Western Interventions in Dravidian and Dalit Faultlines. Amaryllis. Template:ISBN.

Biography

Biographical dictionaries and encyclopedias

Manuals and gazetteers

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  • Chaudhuri, S. B. 1964. History of the Gazetteers of India. New Delhi: Publication Division.
  • The District Gazetteers of British India: A Bibliography{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Zug, Switzerland: Inter Documentation Company(1970)
  • Personal and geographical names in the Gupta inscriptions{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Concept Publishing Co., Delhi(1978)
  • The Imperial Gazetteer of India

Travelogues

Early period

  • Indica by Megasthenes, c. 300 BCE
  • "Record of the Buddhistic Kingdoms" by Fa Hien (414 AD){{#if:Fa|, Fa}. Trubner & Co.(1877), 414 CE
  • The Travels of Peter Mundy in Europe and Asia, 1608-1667{{#if:Mundy|, Mundy}
  • A Record of Buddhistic kingdoms; being an account by the Chinese monk FA-HIEN of his travels in India and Ceylon, A.D. 399-414, in search of the Buddhist books of discipline{{#if:Faxian|, Faxian}. Clarendon Press(1886)
  • Great Tang Records on the Western Regions, by Hiuen Tsang. 646 CE.
  • On Yuan Chwang's Travels in India, 629-645 A.D.{{#if:Watters|, Watters}. Royal Asiatic Society(1904)
  • Alberuni's India — An account of ... India about A.D. 1030 (Vol. 1){{#if:Sachau|, Sachau}. Kegan Paul, Trench Trübner & Co.Ltd.(1910)
  • Alberuni's India — An account of ... India about A.D. 1030 (Vol 2.){{#if:Sachau|, Sachau}. Kegan Paul, Trench Trübner & Co. Ltd.(1910)
  • Majumdar, R. C. (1981). 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

  • Travels in India (Vol. 1){{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Macmillan & Co.(1899)
  • Travels in India (Vol. 2){{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Macmillan & Co.(1899)
  • A New Directory for the East-Indies{{#if:Herbert|, Herbert}. Gilbert & Wright(1791)
  • Journal of a Tour through Part of the snowy range of the Himala Mountains, and to the sources of the rivers Jumna and Ganges.{{#if:Fraser|, Fraser}. Rodwell and Martin(1820)
  • Travels in the Mogul Empire, A.D. 1656-1668{{#if:Bernier|, Bernier}. Archibald Constable(1891)
  • Meenakshi Jain, The India They Saw (co-edited with Sandhya Jain, 4 Volumes, Prabhat Prakashan), Template:ISBN, Template:ISBN, Template:ISBN, Template:ISBN.

Late modern

Provinces

Biodiversity

Flora

  • The Bombay Flora: Or, Short Descriptions of All the Indigenous Plants Hitherto Discovered in Or Near the Bombay Presidency : Together with a Supplement of Introduced and Naturalised Species{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Education Society's Press(1861)

Fauna

Princely states

  • The House of Scindia — A Sketch by John Hope{{#if:Hope|, Hope}. Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green, London(1863)
  • A History of Travancore from the Earliest Times{{#if:Menon|, Menon}. Higginbotham & Co., Madras(1879)
  • Imperial India — An artist's journals:Illustrated by numerous sketches taken at the courts of the principal chiefs in India{{#if:Prinsep, A.R.A.|, Prinsep, A.R.A.}. Chapman and Hall, London(1879)
  • The Indian Princes and Their States{{#if:Ramusack|, Ramusack}(2004)
  • Supplement to Who's Who in India — Containing lives and photographs of the recipients of honours on 12th December 1911{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Newul Kishore Press, Lucknow(1912)

People, politics and customs

  • Caste, Society and Politics in India from the Eighteenth Century to the Modern Age{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Cambridge University Press(2001). ISBN 978-0-521-79842-6
  • Letters written in a Mahratta camp during the year 1809, descriptive of the character, manners, domestic habits, and religious ceremonies, of the Mahrattas{{#if:Broughton|, Broughton}. Archibald Constable & Co., London(1812)
  • Recollections of Northern India — With observations on the origin, customs, and moral sentiments of the Hindoos, and remarks on the country and principal places on the Ganges{{#if:Buyers|, Buyers}. John Snow, Paternoster Row, London(1848)
  • History of the Parsis — Including their manners, customs, religion and present position. (Vol. 1){{#if:Karaka|, Karaka}. Macmillan & Co., London(1884)
  • History of the Parsis — Including their manners, customs, religion and present position. (Vol. 2){{#if:Karaka|, Karaka}. Macmillan & Co., London(1884)
  • Kishwar, M., & Vanita, R. (1996). In search of answers: Indian women's voices from Manushi : a selection from the first five years of Manushi. Daryaganj, New Delhi: Manohar.
  • Domestic manners and customs of the Hindoos of northern India, or, more strictly speaking, of the north west provinces of India.{{#if:Dass|, Dass}. Medical Hall Press, Benares(1860)
  • The Textile Manufactures and the Costumes of the People of India{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. India Office by George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, London(1866)
  • Illustrations of the Textile Manufactures of India{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Victoria & Albert Museum, London(1881)
  • The People of India (Illustrated){{#if:Menpes|, Menpes}. Adam & Charles Black, London(1910)
  • Kamandakiya Nitisara: The Elements of Polity{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. H.C.Dass, Calcutta(1896)
  • 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

  • An Encyclopaedia of Hindu Architecture{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Oxford University Press(946)
  • The ABC of Indian Art{{#if:Blacker|, Blacker}. Stanley Paul & Co., London(1922)
  • Coomaraswamy, Ananda Kentish. 1909. The Indian Craftsman. London: Probsthain.
  • Viśvakarmā ; examples of Indian architecture, sculpture, painting, handicraft{{#if:Coomaraswamy|, Coomaraswamy}(1914)
  • Ghose, Aurobindo. 1998. The Foundations of Indian Culture. Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram.
  • Buddhist Art in India{{#if:Gibson|, Gibson}. Bernard Quaritch, London(1901)
  • 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.
  • Indian sculpture and painting{{#if:Havell|, Havell}. John Murray, London(1908)
  • Indian Architecture, its psychology, structure, and history from the first Muhammadan invasion to the present day{{#if:Havell|, Havell}. John Murray(1913)
  • A Handbook of Indian Art{{#if:Havell|, Havell}. John Murray(1920)
  • Kak, S. 2015. The Wishing Tree: Presence and Promise of India. Delhi: Aditya Prakashan.
  • Kishwar, M. (1989). 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. Template:ISBN.[3]
  • —— 2016. Battle for Sanskrit. Harper Collins India. Template:ISBN.[4]
  • Robinson, W. Andrew. 1989. Satyajit Ray: The Inner Eye: The Biography of a Master Film-Maker. vol 1, vol. 2.
  • Sethna, K. D. (1989). Ancient India in a New Light. New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan.
  • The Heroic Age of India: A Comparative Study{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Company, London(1929)
  • A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon{{#if:Smith|, Smith}. Clarendon Press(1930)
  • Some Notes on Indian Artistic Anatomy{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Indian Society of Oriental Art, Calcutta(1914)
  • Report of the Indian Cinematograph Committee 1927-1928{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Superintendent, The Government Press, Madras(1928)

Performance art

  • The Music and Musical Instruments of southern India and the Deccan{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Novello, Ewer & Co., London(1891)
  • The Dasarupa or Treatise on Ten Forms of Drama — A Treatise on Hindu Dramaturgy{{#if:Dhanamjaya|, Dhanamjaya}. Columbia University(1912)
  • The Music of India{{#if:Popley|, Popley}. Association Press(1921)
  • Shourie, Arun. 1979. Hinduism, Essence and Consequence: A Study of the Upanishads, the Gita, and the Brahma-Sutras. Sahibabad, District. Ghaziabad: Vikas.
  • The Music of Hindostan{{#if:Strangways|, Strangways}. Oxford University Press(1914)

Religion, folk tales, and spiritual heritage

  • Indian myth and legend{{#if:Alexander|, Alexander}. Gresham, London(1913)
  • The Dance of Siva — fourteen Indian essays{{#if:Coomaraswamy|, Coomaraswamy}. The Sunwise Turn Inc., New York(1918)
  • Crooke, William. 1896. An Introduction to the Popular Religion and Folklore of Northern India (revised and illustrated ed.), 2 vols. North-Western Provinces and Oudh: Government press.
  • 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.
  • Durga Puja — With Notes and Illustrations{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. The Hindu Patriot Press(1871)
  • 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. Template:ISBN.[5]
  • The Mirror of Gesture — Being the Abhinaya Darpana of Nandikeśvara.{{#if:Nandikeśvara|, Nandikeśvara}. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass.(1917)
  • 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.
  • In Quest of Indian Folktales: Pandit Ram Gharib Chaube and William Crooke{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Indiana University Press(21 May 2006). ISBN 0-253-11202-8
  • Yogananda, Paramahansa. 1946. Autobiography of a Yogi.
  • Sanatana Dharma: an advanced text book of Hindu religion and Ethics{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Central Hindu College, Benaras(1904)

Fiction

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References

  1. ↑ Pandit. N. K., trans. 2009. A Muslim Missionary in Mediaeval Kashmir: Being the English translation of Tohfatu'l-ahbab. New Delhi: Voice of India.
  2. ↑ Print Areas: Book History in India{{#if:Chatterjee|, Chatterjee}. Orient Blackswan(2004). ISBN 978-81-7824-082-4
  3. ↑ Home. Being Different the Book. Retrieved 2019-03-19.
  4. ↑ The Battle for Sanskrit. The Battle for Sanskrit. Retrieved 2019-03-19.
  5. ↑ Indra's Net | Rajiv Malhotra | Infinity Foundation. Retrieved 2019-03-19.

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