Bibliography of India

This is a bibliography of notable works about India.

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.

The court of Akbar, an illustration from a manuscript of the Akbarnama, 16th century

India history books

Single volume works

Primary sources

Ancient India

• Bibliotheca historica: Book II: The East. by Diodorus Siculus, 1st century BC, p. 35‑60.
• Ashokavadana, 2nd century CE
• Mookerji, Radhakumud (1912). Indian Shipping: A history of the sea-borne trade and maritime activity of the Indians from the earliest times. Longmans, Green and Co., Bombay.
• F. E. Pargiter (1922). Ancient Indian Historical Tradition. Oxford University Press, H. Milford.
• Bannerjee, Dr. Gauranganath (1921). India as Known to the Ancient World. Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, London.

Medieval India

• Ain-i-Akbari, (Vol. 3 of Akbarnama). Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak. 16th century Full online set
• Jahangirnama (Tuzk-e-Jahangiri), 16th century
• Padshah Nama, by Muhammad Amin Qazvini. 1646
• Firishta, Muhammad Qasim Hindu Shah Astarabadi (1794). Ferishta's History of Dekkan..(Vol. 1). Jonathan Scott (trans.). London: John Stockdale.
• Firishta, Muhammad Qasim Hindu Shah Astarabadi (1794). Ferishta's History of Dekkan..(Vol. 2). Jonathan Scott (trans.). London: John Stockdale.
• Tod, James, Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, 2 vols. London: Smith, Elder (1829, 1832).
• V. S. Bhatnagar (1991). "Foreword". Kānhaḍade Prabandha, India's Greatest Patriotic Saga of Medieval Times: Padmanābha's Epic Account of Kānhaḍade. Aditya Prakashan. ISBN 978-81-85179-54-4.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• Elphinstone, Mountstuart (1841). The History of India (Vol. 1). London: John Murray.
• Elphinstone, Mountstuart (1841). The History of India (Vol. 2). London: John Murray.
• Sachau, Edward C. (1910). Alberuni's India — An account of ... India about A.D. 1030 (Vol. 1). Kegan Paul, Trench Trubner & Co.Ltd., London.
• Sachau, Edward C. (1910). Alberuni's India — An account of ... India about A.D. 1030 (Vol 2.). London: Kegan Paul, Trench Trübner & Co. Ltd.
• Major, Richard Henry, ed. (1857). India in the Fifteenth Century: Being a collection of narratives of voyages to India, in the century . London: Hakluyt Society.
• H. M. Elliot, Ed. John Dowson, The History of India, as Told by Its Own Historians. The Muhammadan Period (8 vols.), 1867-1877.
• Muḥammad, A. K., & Pandit, K. N. (2009). A Muslim missionary in mediaeval Kashmir: Being the English translation of Tohfatu'l-ahbab. New Delhi: Voice of India.
• Lethbridge, Roper, Sir (1893). The History of India. London: Macmillan.
• Feudge, Fannie Roper (1903). India; The Gorgeous East with Richest Hand Showers on her Kings Barbaric Pearl and Gold. The Saalfield Publishing Company, Ohio.
• De La Fosse, C. F. (1918). History of India (Revised ed.). London: Macmillan & Co.
• Neelesh Ishwarchandra Karkare. Shreenath Madhavji : Mahayoddha Mahadji Ki Shourya Gatha (2014)

British Raj

• The Discovery of India, by Jawaharlal Nehru, 1946.
• Hunter, William Wilson, Sir (1893). A Brief History of the Indian Peoples. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
• Hudson, Roger, ed. (1999). The Raj: an eye-witness history of the British in India. London: Folio Society.
• Mill, James (1817, 1820, 1826), edited by Horace Hayman Wilson (1848, 1858). The History of British India.

Secondary sources

• Balagangadhara, S. N. (2012). Reconceptualizing India studies. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
• Bryant, Edwin. The Quest for the origins of Vedic culture. (2001) Oxford University Press
• Chakrabarti, Dilip K.: Colonial Indology, 1997, Munshiram Manoharlal: New Delhi.
• Durant, W. (2011). The case for India. Mumbai: Strand Book Stall.
• Inden, R. B. (2010). Imagining India. Bloomington, Ind: Indiana University Press.
• Lal, B. B. (1997). The earliest civilization of South Asia: Rise, maturity, and decline. New Delhi: Aryan Books International.
• Lal, B. B. (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.
• Vishwa Adluri, Joydeep Bagchee: The Nay Science: A History of German Indology. Oxford University Press, New York 2014, ISBN 978-0199931361
• Richards, John F. (1995). The Mughal Empire.
• India after Gandhi, by Ramachandra Guha, 2007.
• Dharampal, . (2000). Indian science and technology in the eighteenth century: Some contemporary European accounts. Goa: Other India.
• Dharampal, . (2000). 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. (1965). 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. (2007). An advanced history of India. Delhi: Macmillan India.
• Majumdar, R. C. (1970). Historiography in modern India. London: Asia Publishing House.
• Majumdar, R. C. (1962). History of the freedom movement in India. Calcutta: K. L. Mukhopadhyay.
• Trautmann, Thomas. 1997. Aryans and British India, University of California Press, Berkeley.
• Sen, Amartya (2005). The Argumentative Indian. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Multivolume works

• Dutt, Romesh Chunder (1906). Williams Jackson, A. V. (ed.). History of India: From the Earliest times to the Sixth century B.C . History of India. 1. London: Grolier Society.
• Afonso, A. V., Chattopadhyaya, D. P., & Centre for Studies in Civilizations. (2009). History of science, philosophy and culture in Indian civilization: : project of history of Indian science, philosophy and culture. New Delhi. (20 Volumes)
• Smith, Vincent Arthur (1906). Williams Jackson, A. V. (ed.). History of India: From Sixth century B.C to Mohammedan Conquest . History of India. 2. London: Grolier Society.
• Lane-Poole, Stanley (1906). Williams Jackson, A. V. (ed.). History of India: From Mohammedan Conquest to the Reign of Akbar the Great . History of India. 3. London: Grolier Society.
• Lane-Poole, Stanley (1906). Williams Jackson, A. V. (ed.). History of India: From Reign of Akbar the Great to the Fall of Moghul Empire . History of India. 4. London: Grolier Society.
• Elliot, H. M. (1907). Williams Jackson, A. V. (ed.). History of India: The Muhammadan Period as Described by Its Own Historians . History of India. 5. London: Grolier Society.
• Hunter, William Wilson, Sir (1906). Williams Jackson, A. V. (ed.). History of India: From the first European settlements to the founding of the English East India Company . History of India. 6. London: Grolier Society.
• Hunter, William Wilson, Sir (1906). Williams Jackson, A. V. (ed.). History of India: The European struggle for Indian supremacy in the seventeenth century . History of India. 7. London: Grolier Society.
• Lyall, A. C., Sir (1907). Williams Jackson, A. V. (ed.). History of India: From the close of the seventeenth century to the present time . History of India. 8. London: Grolier Society.
• Jackson, A. V. Williams (1907). Williams Jackson, A. V. (ed.). History of India: Historic accounts of India by foreign travellers, classic, oriental, and occidental . History of India. 9. London: Grolier Society.
• Infinity Fountation. (2012). Infinity Foundation series: Contributions to history of Indian science and technology. New Delhi: Pentagon Press. (20 Volumes)
• Rapson, Edward James (1922). The Cambridge History of India: Ancient India (Vol. 1). Cambridge University Press.
• Haig, Wolseley, Sir (1928). The Cambridge History of India: Turks and Afghans (Vol. 3). Cambridge University Press.
• Dodwell, H. H. (1929). The Cambridge History of India: British India, 1497-1858 (Vol. 5). Cambridge University Press.
• Dodwell, H. H. (1932). The Cambridge History of India: The Indian Empire, 1858-1918 (Vol. 6). Cambridge University Press.
• The History and Culture of the Indian People, 11 vols, ed. R. C. Majumdar. (1951)

Race, Caste and Tribe

Primary sources

Northern India

• Crooke, William (1896). The tribes and castes of the North-western Provinces and Oudh, Volume I. Calcutta: Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, India.
• Crooke, William (1896). The tribes and castes of the North-western Provinces and Oudh, Volume II. Calcutta: Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, India.
• Crooke, William (1896). The tribes and castes of the North-western Provinces and Oudh, Volume III. Calcutta: Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, India.
• Crooke, William (1896). The tribes and castes of the North-western Provinces and Oudh, Volume IV. Calcutta: Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, India.

Central Provinces

• Russell, Robert Vane (1916). Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India. 1. Lal, Rai Bahadur Hira. London: Macmillan & Co.
• Russell, Robert Vane (1916). Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India. 2. Lal, Rai Bahadur Hira. London: Macmillan & Co.
• Russell, Robert Vane (1916). Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India. 3. Lal, Rai Bahadur Hira. London: Macmillan & Co.
• Russell, Robert Vane (1916). Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India. 4. Lal, Rai Bahadur Hira. London: Macmillan & Co.

Southern India

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

Others

• Enthoven, Reginald Edward. The Tribes and Castes of Bombay. Bombay: Government Central Press. – three volumes, published between 1920–1922
• Hindoo Tribes and Castes, 1872–81, 3 vols by M. A. Sherring
• Rose, Horace Arthur; MacLagan, Edward Douglas. A Glossary of the Tribes and Castes of the Punjab and North-West Frontier Province. Lahore: Samuel T. Weston at the Civil and Military Gazette Press.

Secondary sources

• Jeffrey, Robin (1994) [1976]. The Decline of Nair Dominance: Society and Politics in Travancore 1847-1908. Sussex University Press. ISBN 0-85621-054-4.
• Susan Bayly (22 February 2001). Caste, Society and Politics in India from the Eighteenth Century to the Modern Age. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-79842-6.
• Rajiv Malhotra (2011), Breaking India: Western Interventions in Dravidian and Dalit Faultlines (Publisher: Amaryllis; ISBN 978-8-191-06737-8)
• Triloki Nath Dhar (1 January 2006). Kashmiri Pandit Community: A Profile. Mittal Publications. ISBN 978-81-8324-177-9.

Biography

• Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay : an intellectual biography (2008) by Amiya Prosad Sen
• Bankimchandra Chatterjee (1977) by Subodh Chandra Sengupta
• Rulers of India series[1]
• Lal, B. B. (2011). Piecing together: Memoirs of an archaeologist. New Delhi: Aryan Books International.
• Chakrabarty, D. (2016). The calling of history: Sir Jadunath Sarkar and his empire of truth.
• Nasrin, Taslima (1999). Amar meyebela - My girlhood. Calcutta: People's Book House.
• Rabindranath Tagore - A Biographical Study (1916) by Ernest Percival Rhys
• The Life and Work of Sir Jagadis C. Bose (1920) by Patrick Geddes
• Ramakrishna - His Life and Sayings (1916) by Friedrich Max Müller
• Fauja, S., & Talib, Gurbachan Singh (1996). Guru Tegh Bahadur: Martyr and teacher. Patiala: Punjabi University.
• The Life and Letters of Raja Rammohun Roy (1914) by Sophia Dobson Collet and Francis Herbert Stead (ed. Hem Chandra Sarkar)
• The Master as I Saw Him (1910) by Sister Nivedita
• Satyajit Ray: The Inner Eye: The Biography of a Master Film-Maker (1989) by W. Andrew Robinson (1, 2)
• The Life of Ramakrishna by Romain Rolland
• The Springing Tiger (1959) by Hugh Toye
• Sarkar, Jadunath (1981). History of Aurangzib. Orient Longman.
• Sarkar, Jadunath (2012). Shivaji and his times. Orient Longman.
• Keshub Chunder Sen: a search for cultural synthesis (1977) by Meredith Borthwick
• Partner in Empire: Dwarkanath Tagore and the Age of Enterprise in Eastern India (1976) by Blair B. Kling
• A poet apart: a literary biography of the Bengali poet Jibanananda Das, (1899-1954) (1990) by Clinton B. Seely
• Recritiquing Rabindranath Tagore (2006) by Samiran Kumar Paul, Amar Nath Prasad
• M.N. Roy: A Political Biography (1997) by Samaren Roy
• The father of modern India: Commemoration volume of the Rammohun Roy centenary celebration, 1933 (1935) by Rammohun Roy Centenary Committee
• India's First Communist (1988) by Samaren Roy
• Rao, S. R. (2008). Reminiscences of an archaeologist. New Delhi: Aryan Books International.
• The Twice-born Heretic, M.N. Roy and Comintern (1986) by Samaren Roy
• Vidyasagar: The Life and After-life of an Eminent Indian (2014) by Brian A. Hatcher
• Rabindranath Tagore – The man and his poetry (1915) by Basanta Koomar Roy (1915: 1; 1916: 2)
• The Philosophy of Rabindranath Tagore by (1919) 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 (1990) by Leonard A. Gordon
• Isvar Chandra Vidyasagar, a story of his life and work (1902) by Subal Chandra Mitra
• Chaitanya's Life and Teachings by Jadunath Sarkar (1922): translation of Chaitanya Charitamrita (1582) of Krishnadas Kaviraj
• Netaji: Rediscovered (2010) by Kanailal Basu
• The Man Who Knew Infinity (1991) by Robert Kanigel
• The Life of Vivekananada and the Universal Gospel by Romain Rolland
• Majumdar, R. C. (1967). Svami Vivekananda: A historical review. Calcutta: General Printers & Publishers.

Biographical dictionaries

• Samsad Bangali Charitabhidhan, ed. Subodh Chandra Sengupta
• Dictionary of National Biography 4 vols ed. Sibapada Sen
• The Indian Biographical Dictionary (1915) by C. Hayavadana Rao
• Dictionary of Indian biography (1906) by Charles Edward Buckland
• Who's Who in India Supplement 1 (1912)
• Who's Who in India Supplement 2 (1914)
• 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 (1893) by Roper Lethbridge
• The Oriental Biographical Dictionary (1881) by Thomas William Beale
• Reminiscences and Anecdotes of Great Men of India by Ram Gopal Sanyal Vol 1 (1894), Vol 2 (1895)
• Who's who of Indian Writers, 1999: A-M
• Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature, Volume 1
• Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature, Volume 2
• Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature, Volume 3
• Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature, Volume 5
• Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature: Supplementary entries and index
• Historical Dictionary of the Bengalis (2013) by Kunal Chakrabarti, Shubhra Chakrabarti

Manuals and gazetteers

• The Imperial Gazetteer of India
• Henry Scholberg (1970). The District Gazetteers of British India: A Bibliography. Zug, Switzerland: Inter Documentation Company.
• Chaudhuri, S. B. (1964) History of the Gazetteers of India, Publication Division, New Delhi.
• Tej Ram Sharma (1978). Personal and geographical names in the Gupta inscriptions. Concept Publishing Co., Delhi.

Travelogues

Early period

• Indica by Megasthenes, c. 300 BCE
• Fa, Hien (1877). "Record of the Buddhistic Kingdoms" by Fa Hien (414 AD). Herbert A. Giles (trans.). London: Trubner & Co., 414 CE
• Mundy, Peter. The Travels of Peter Mundy in Europe and Asia, 1608-1667.
• Faxian; tr. by James Legge (1886). 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. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
• Great Tang Records on the Western Regions, by Hiuen Tsang. 646 CE.
• Watters, Thomas (1904). On Yuan Chwang's Travels in India, 629-645 A.D. London: Royal Asiatic Society.
• Sachau, Edward C. (1910). Alberuni's India — An account of ... India about A.D. 1030 (Vol. 1). London: Kegan Paul, Trench Trübner & Co.Ltd.
• Sachau, Edward C. (1910). Alberuni's India — An account of ... India about A.D. 1030 (Vol 2.). London: Kegan Paul, Trench Trübner & Co. Ltd.
• 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

• Tavernier, Jean Baptiste; Ball, Valentine (tr. from the Orig French Ed. 1676) (1899). Travels in India (Vol. 1). London: Macmillan & Co.
• Tavernier, Jean Baptiste; Ball, Valentine (tr. from the Orig French Ed. 1676) (1899). Travels in India (Vol. 2). London: Macmillan & Co.
• Herbert, William; William Nichelson; Samuel Dunn (1791). A New Directory for the East-Indies. London: Gilbert & Wright.
• Fraser, James Baillie (1820). Journal of a Tour through Part of the snowy range of the Himala Mountains, and to the sources of the rivers Jumna and Ganges. London: Rodwell and Martin.
• Bernier, Francois (1891). Travels in the Mogul Empire, A.D. 1656-1668. London: Archibald Constable.
• Meenakshi Jain, The India They Saw (co-edited with Sandhya Jain, 4 Volumes, Prabhat Prakashan), ISBN 8184301065, ISBN 8184301073, ISBN 8184301081, ISBN 818430109X.

Later modern

• Emily Eden. Up the Country
• Karageorgevitch, Prince Bojidar (1899). Enchanted India. New York: Harper & Brothers.
• 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.
• India: A Million Mutinies Now. V. S. Naipaul. 1990.

Provinces

• Provincial Geographies of India edited by Thomas Henry Holland

Flora

• Nicol Alexander Dalzell; Alexander Gibson (1861). 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. Education Society's Press.

Fauna

• Lepidoptera Indica
• The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma
• Fletcher, T. B. and Inglis, C. M. Birds of an Indian Garden. Calcutta & Simla: Thacker, Spink & Co. (1924)
• Marshall, G. F. L. and de Nicéville, L., Butterflies of India, Burmah and Ceylon.

Princely states

Primary sources

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

Secondary sources

• Ramusack, Barbara N. (2004). The Indian Princes and Their States.

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 (2014). How I became a Hindu: My discovery of Vedic dharma.
• Gautier, Francois (2008). The guru of joy: Sri Sri Ravi Shankar & the art of living. Carlsbad, Calif: Hay House.
• Shourie, Arun (2017), Two Saints: Speculations around and about Ramakrishna Paramahamsa and Ramana Maharishi., Harper Collins.

Folklore

• Sadhana Naithani (21 May 2006). In Quest of Indian Folktales: Pandit Ram Gharib Chaube and William Crooke. Indiana University Press. ISBN 0-253-11202-8.
• Crooke, William (1896). An introduction to the popular religion and folklore of northern India, Volume I (Revised and illustrated ed.). Printed at the government press, North-Western Provinces and Oudh.
• Crooke, William (1896). An introduction to the popular religion and folklore of northern India, Volume II (Revised and illustrated ed.). Printed at the government press, North-Western Provinces and Oudh.

People, politics and customs

• Broughton, Thomas Duer (1812). Letters written in a Mahratta camp during the year 1809, descriptive of the character, manners, domestic habits, and religious ceremonies, of the Mahrattas. Archibald Constable & Co., London.
• Buyers, Rev. William (1848). 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. John Snow, Paternoster Row, London.
• Karaka, Dosabhai Framjee (1884). History of the Parsis — Including their manners, customs, religion and present position. (Vol. 1). Macmillan & Co., London.
• Elst, K. (2014). Decolonizing the Hindu mind: Ideological development of Hindu revivalism. New Delhi: Rupa.
• Karaka, Dosabhai Framjee (1884). History of the Parsis — Including their manners, customs, religion and present position. (Vol. 2). Macmillan & Co., London.
• Arun Shourie, & Goel, S. R. (2009). Hindu temples, what happened to them.
• 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.
• Dass, Baboo Ishuree (1860). Domestic manners and customs of the Hindoos of northern India, or, more strictly speaking, of the north west provinces of India. Medical Hall Press, Benares.
• J.Forbes Watson (1866). The Textile Manufactures and the Costumes of the People of India. India Office by George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, London.
• Illustrations of the Textile Manufactures of India. Victoria & Albert Museum, London. 1881.
• Menpes, Mortimer (1910). The People of India (Illustrated). Adam & Charles Black, London.
• Manmatha Nath Dutt (ed.) (1896). Kamandakiya Nitisara: The Elements of Polity. H.C.Dass, Calcutta.CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link)
• Christian Missionary Activities Enquiry Committee (Madhya Pradesh, India), & Goel, S. R. (1998). Vindicated by time: The Niyogi Committee report on Christian missionary activities.

Religion, culture and arts

• Ghose, Aurobindo (1998). The foundations of Indian culture. Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram.
• Dayananda, S., & Bharadwaja, C. (1932). Light of truth, or, An English translation of the Satyartha prakasha: The well-known work of Swami Dayananda Saraswati. Madras: Arya Samaj.
• Sanatana Dharma: an advanced text book of Hindu religion and Ethics. Central Hindu College, Benaras. 1904.
• Pratapchandra Ghosha, ed. (1871). Durga Puja — With Notes and Illustrations. Varanasi: The Hindu Patriot Press.CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link)
• Sethna, K. D. (1989). Ancient India in a new light. New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan.
• Charles Russel Day (1891). The Music and Musical Instruments of southern India and the Deccan. William Gibb (lllus.). Novello, Ewer & Co., London.
• Lokesh, Chandra, & Chandrika, T. (1997). Cultural horizons of India. New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan.
• Gibson, Agnes C.; Jas. Burgess (1901). Buddhist Art in India. Bernard Quaritch, London.
• Havell, E. B. (1908). Indian sculpture and painting. John Murray, London.
• Kak, S. (2015). The wishing tree: Presence and promise of India. Delhi: Aditya Prakashan.
• Blacker, J. F. (1922). The ABC of Indian Art. Stanley Paul & Co., London.
• Coomaraswamy, Ananda Kentish (1918). The Dance of Siva — fourteen Indian essays. The Sunwise Turn Inc., New York.
• Coomaraswamy, Ananda Kentish, The Indian craftsman London: Probsthain, 1909
• Coomaraswamy, Ananda K. (1914). Viśvakarmā ; examples of Indian architecture, sculpture, painting, handicraft. London.
• ., Nandikeśvara (1917). The Mirror of Gesture — Being the Abhinaya Darpana of Nandikeśvara. Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy; Gopala Kristnayya Duggirala (trans.). Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
• Havell, E. B. (1913). Indian Architecture, its psychology, structure, and history from the first Muhammadan invasion to the present day. London: John Murray.
• Kishwar, M. (1989). Manushi: Women Bhakta poets. New Delhi: Manushi Trust.
• Frawley, David (2015). Shiva: The lord of yoga. Lotus Press.
• ., Dhanamjaya (1912). The Dasarupa or Treatise on Ten Forms of Drama — A Treatise on Hindu Dramaturgy. George C. O. Haas (trans.). New York: Columbia University.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
• Donald Alexander, Mackenzie (1913). Indian myth and legend. Gresham, London.
• 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.
• Gupta, S. P., Asthana, S., & Indraprastha Museum of Art and Archaeology. (2007). Elements of Indian art: Including temple architecture, iconography & iconometry. New Delhi: Indraprastha Museum of Art and Archaeology.
• Klostermaier, K. K. (2007). A survey of Hinduism. Albany: State University of New York Press.
• Strangways, A. H. Fox (1914). The Music of Hindostan. London: Oxford University Press.
• Narain, H. (1983). Facets of Indian religio-philosophic identity. Delhi u.a: Bharatiya Vidya Prakashan.
• Havell, E. B. (1920). A Handbook of Indian Art. London: John Murray.
• Popley, Herbert Arthur (1921). The Music of India. Calcutta: Association Press.
• Shourie, Arun (1979). Hinduism, essence and consequence: A study of the Upanishads, the Gita, and the Brahma-Sutras. Sahibabad, District. Ghaziabad: Vikas.
• Swarup, R., & Frawley, David (2001). The word as revelation: Names of gods. New Delhi: Voice of India.
• Abanindranath Tagore (1914). Some Notes on Indian Artistic Anatomy. Indian Society of Oriental Art, Calcutta.
• Rajiv Malhotra (2011), Being Different: An Indian Challenge to Western Universalism (Publisher: HarperCollins India; ISBN 978-9-350-29190-0)[2]
• Rajiv Malhotra (2014), Indra's Net: Defending Hinduism's Philosophical Unity (Publisher: HarperCollins India; ISBN 978-9-351-36244-9)[3]
• Rajiv Malhotra (2016), Battle for Sanskrit (Publisher: Harper Collins India; ISBN 978-93-5177-538-6)[4]
• Report of the Indian Cinematograph Committee 1927-1928. Madras: Superintendent, The Government Press, Madras. 1928.
• N. K. Sidhanta (1929). The Heroic Age of India: A Comparative Study. Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Company, London.
• Smith, Vincent A. (1930). A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
• Acharya, Prasanna Kumar (946). An Encyclopaedia of Hindu Architecture. Oxford University Press.

Fiction

See also: List of historical novels § India, and List of Historical novels in Indian languages

• Caṭṭopādhyāẏa, Bankim, & Roy, B. K. (2014). Anandamath.
• Journey to the West, by Wu Cheng'en. 1590s
• Passage to India (1924), by E. M. Forster
• Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, Kim and many short story collections
• Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, The Householder (1960), Heat and Dust (1975)
• The Siege of Krishnapur, by J. G. Farrell
• John Masters, Nightrunners of Bengal and other novels
• Rushdie, Salman (2014). Midnight's children. London: Vintage.
• Paul Scott's Raj Quartet
• Zadie Smith, White Teeth

See also

• History of India
• Indian literature
• Indology
• Bibliography of Ganges
• Bibliography of Varanasi
• The Cambridge History of India
• The New Cambridge History of India

References

1. Chatterjee, Rimi B. (2004). ""Every Line for India" : The Oxford University Press and the Rise and Fall of the Rulers of India Series". In Chakravorty, Swapan; Gupta, Abhijit (eds.). Print Areas: Book History in India. Orient Blackswan. pp. 65–102. ISBN 978-81-7824-082-4.
2. "Home". Being Different the Book. Retrieved 19 March 2019.
3. "Indra's Net | Rajiv Malhotra | Infinity Foundation". Retrieved 19 March 2019.
4. "The Battle for Sanskrit". The Battle for Sanskrit. Retrieved 19 March 2019.

External links

• The Indian City, 1700 to the Present: A Select Research Bibliography by Vinay Lal
• Banaras Bibliography by Jörg Gengnagel & Axel Michaels