Bibliography of India explained

This is a bibliography of notable works about the historical Indian subcontinent as well as the modern-day Republic of 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

Medieval India

• ibn Mubarak, Abu'l-Fazl. 16th century. Ain-i-Akbari, Akbarnama Vol. 3. Full online set.
• Jahangir, Nur-ud-din Muhammad. 16th century. Tuzk-e-Jahangiri.
• Kashmiri, Muhammad Ali. 1642. Tohfatu'l-ahbab.^[1]
• Qazvini, Muhammad Amin. 1646. Padshah Nama.

British Raj

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

Secondary sources

• Book: Mookerji, Radhakumud . Indian Shipping: A history of the sea-borne trade and maritime activity of the Indians from the earliest times . Longmans, Green and Co., Bombay . 1912.
• Book: Ancient Indian Historical Tradition. F. E. Pargiter. Oxford University Press, H. Milford . 1922.
• Book: Bannerjee, Dr. Gauranganath . India as Known to the Ancient World. 1921. Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, London.
• 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.
• Book: Richards, John F.. John F. Richards. The Mughal Empire. 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. .
• —— 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.
• Book: V. S. Bhatnagar . Foreword . Kānhaḍade Prabandha, India's Greatest Patriotic Saga of Medieval Times: Padmanābha's Epic Account of Kānhaḍade . 1991 . Aditya Prakashan . 978-81-85179-54-4 .
• Elphinstone, Mountstuart. 1841. The History of India, 2 vols. London: John Murray. vol. 1, vol. 2.
• Sachau, Eduard C. 1910. Alberuni's India — An account of ... India about A.D. 1030, 2 vols. London: Kegan Paul, Trench Trubner & Co.Ltd. vol. 1, vol. 2.
• Book: India in the Fifteenth Century: Being a collection of narratives of voyages to India, in the century .. . Major, Richard Henry . Hakluyt Society . London . 1857 .
• Elliot, Henry M. 1867–1877. The History of India, as Told by Its Own Historians. The Muhammadan Period, 8 vols., edited by J. Dowson.
• Book: Lethbridge, Roper, Sir. Roper Lethbridge. The History of India. 1893. Macmillan . London.
• Book: Feudge, Fannie Roper . India; The Gorgeous East with Richest Hand Showers on her Kings Barbaric Pearl and Gold. 1903. The Saalfield Publishing Company, Ohio.
• Book: De La Fosse, C. F.. History of India. 1918. Revised. Macmillan & Co. . London.
• Book: Kulke . Hermann . Hermann Kulke. Rothermund . Dietmar . Dietmar Rothermund. A History of India . 1991 . Routledge . 9781138961159 .

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.
• Book: Dutt, Romesh Chunder . Romesh Chunder Dutt. History of India: From the Earliest times to the Sixth century B.C. s:Index:History of India Vol 1.djvu . A. V. . Williams Jackson . A. V. Williams Jackson . 1 . 1906. Grolier Society . London.
• Chattopadhyaya, Debbi P., ed. 2009. Project of History of Indian Science, Philosophy and culture, 20 vols. Centre for Studies in Civilizations.
• Book: Dodwell, H. H.. The Cambridge History of India: British India, 1497-1858 (Vol. 5). 1929. Cambridge University Press.
• Book: Dodwell, H. H.. The Cambridge History of India: The Indian Empire, 1858-1918 (Vol. 6). 1932. 2. Cambridge University Press.
• Book: Haig, Wolseley, Sir. The Cambridge History of India: Turks and Afghans (Vol. 3). 1928. Cambridge University Press.
• 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.
• Book: Rapson, Edward James. The Cambridge History of India: Ancient India (Vol. 1). 1922. Cambridge University 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

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

Biography

• Basu, Kanailal. 2010. Netaji: Rediscovered.
• 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. Vidyasagar: The Life and After-life of an Eminent Indian.
• Hunter, William Wilson. 1889. Rulers of India series, 28 vols.^[2]
• Kanigel, Robert. 1991. 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. Recritiquing Rabindranath Tagore.
• 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 1, 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. (1915: 1; 1916: 2)
• Roy, Samaren. 1986. The Twice-born Heretic, M. N. Roy and Comintern.
• —— 1988. India's First Communist.
• —— 1997. M. N. Roy: A Political Biography.
• 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. A Poet Apart: A literary biography of the Bengali poet Jibanananda Das, (1899-1954).
• Sen, Amiya Prosad. 2008. Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay: An Intellectual Biography.
• Sengupta, Subodh Chandra. 1977. Bankimchandra Chatterjee.
• Toye, Hugh. 1959. The Springing Tiger.
• Yogananda, Paramahansa. 1946. Autobiography of a Yogi.
• The father of modern India: Commemoration volume of the Rammohun Roy centenary celebration, 1933. Rammohun Roy Centenary Committee. 1935.

Biographical dictionaries and encyclopedias

• 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

• Chaudhuri, S. B. 1964. History of the Gazetteers of India. New Delhi: Publication Division.
• Book: Henry Scholberg. Henry Scholberg. The District Gazetteers of British India: A Bibliography. 1970. Zug, Switzerland: Inter Documentation Company. 9780800212650 .
• Book: Personal and geographical names in the Gupta inscriptions. Tej Ram Sharma. 1978. Concept Publishing Co., Delhi.
• The Imperial Gazetteer of India

Travelogues

Early period

• Indica by Megasthenes, c. 300 BCE
• Book: Fa, Hien. Faxian . Herbert A. Giles (trans.) . "Record of the Buddhistic Kingdoms" by Fa Hien (414 AD) . 1877. Trubner & Co. . London., 414 CE
• Book: Mundy, Peter. Peter Mundy. The Travels of Peter Mundy in Europe and Asia, 1608-1667. 31 January 2024 . Cambridge [Eng] Printed for the Hakluyt Society . 978-0-8115-0338-9 .
• Book: Faxian. Fa Xian . tr. by James Legge. 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. 1886. Clarendon Press . Oxford.
• Great Tang Records on the Western Regions, by Hiuen Tsang. 646 CE.
• Book: Watters, Thomas . On Yuan Chwang's Travels in India, 629-645 A.D.. 1904. Royal Asiatic Society . London.
• Book: Sachau, Edward C. . Alberuni's India — An account of ... India about A.D. 1030 (Vol. 1). 1910. Kegan Paul, Trench Trübner & Co.Ltd. . London.
• Book: Sachau, Edward C. . Alberuni's India — An account of ... India about A.D. 1030 (Vol 2.). 1910. Kegan Paul, Trench Trübner & Co. Ltd.. London.
• 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

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

Late modern

• Emily Eden. Up the Country
• Book: Karageorgevitch, ''Prince'' Bojidar. Prince Bojidar Karageorgevitch. Enchanted India. 1899. Harper & Brothers. New York.
• 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

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

Biodiversity and environment

• Karan, P. P. "Environmental movements in India." Geographical Review 84#1 (1994): 32-41. online
• Nayak, Arun Kumar. "Environmental movements in India." Journal of developing societies 31.2 (2015): 249-280. online
• Saravanan, Velayutham. Environmental History of Modern India: Land, Population, Technology and Development (Bloomsbury Publishing India, 2022) online review; also see excerpt at Amazon]
• Shiva, Vandana. "Ecology Movements in India", in Oomen, T. K. (Ed.), Social Movements: Issues of Identity (Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2011)
• Turaga, Rama Mohana R., and Anish Sugathan. "Environmental regulations in India." in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Environmental Science (2020) online

Flora

• Book: Nicol Alexander Dalzell. Nicol Alexander Dalzell. Alexander Gibson. Alexander Gibson (botanist). 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. 1861. Education Society's Press.

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

• Book: Hope, John . The House of Scindia — A Sketch by John Hope. 1863. Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green, London.
• Book: Menon, P. Shungoonny. A History of Travancore from the Earliest Times. 1879. Higginbotham & Co., Madras.
• Book: Prinsep, A.R.A., Val C.. Imperial India — An artist's journals:Illustrated by numerous sketches taken at the courts of the principal chiefs in India. Valentine Cameron Prinsep . Chapman and Hall, London . 1879.
• Book: Ramusack, Barbara N.. Barbara Ramusack. The Indian Princes and Their States. 2004.
• Book: 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 .

People, politics and customs

• Book: Bayly. Caste, Society and Politics in India from the Eighteenth Century to the Modern Age. 2001. Cambridge University Press. 978-0-521-79842-6. Susan Bayly.
• Book: Broughton, Thomas Duer . Letters written in a Mahratta camp during the year 1809, descriptive of the character, manners, domestic habits, and religious ceremonies, of the Mahrattas. 1812. Archibald Constable & Co., London.
• Book: Buyers, Rev. William . 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. 1848. John Snow, Paternoster Row, London.
• Book: Karaka, Dosabhai Framjee. Dosabhai Framji Karaka . History of the Parsis — Including their manners, customs, religion and present position. (Vol. 1). 1884. Macmillan & Co., London.
• Book: Karaka, Dosabhai Framjee. History of the Parsis — Including their manners, customs, religion and present position. (Vol. 2). 1884. Macmillan & Co., London.
• 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.
• Book: Dass, Baboo Ishuree. Domestic manners and customs of the Hindoos of northern India, or, more strictly speaking, of the north west provinces of India.. 1860. Medical Hall Press, Benares.
• Book: The Textile Manufactures and the Costumes of the People of India . J.Forbes Watson . India Office by George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, London . 1866.
• Book: Illustrations of the Textile Manufactures of India . Victoria & Albert Museum, London . 1881.
• Book: Menpes, Mortimer. The People of India (Illustrated). Mortimer Menpes. 1910. Adam & Charles Black, London.
• Book: Kamandakiya Nitisara: The Elements of Polity. Manmatha Nath Dutt . 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

• Book: An Encyclopaedia of Hindu Architecture. Acharya, Prasanna Kumar. Oxford University Press. 946.
• Book: Blacker, J. F.. The ABC of Indian Art. Stanley Paul & Co., London . 1922.
• Coomaraswamy, Ananda Kentish. 1909. The Indian Craftsman. London: Probsthain.
• Book: Coomaraswamy, Ananda K.. Ananda K. Coomaraswamy. Viśvakarmā; examples of Indian architecture, sculpture, painting, handicraft. 1914. London. 2.
• Ghose, Aurobindo. 1998. The Foundations of Indian Culture. Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram.
• Book: Gibson, Agnes C. . Jas. Burgess . Buddhist Art in India . 1901. Bernard Quaritch, London.
• 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.
• Book: Havell, E. B.. Indian sculpture and painting. E. B. Havell. 1908. John Murray, London.
• Book: Havell, E. B.. E. B. Havell. Indian Architecture, its psychology, structure, and history from the first Muhammadan invasion to the present day. 1913. John Murray . London . 2.
• Book: Havell, E. B.. E. B. Havell. A Handbook of Indian Art. 1920. John Murray . London. 2.
• 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. .^[3]
• —— 2016. Battle for Sanskrit. Harper Collins India. .^[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.
• Book: The Heroic Age of India: A Comparative Study . Sidhanta, N. K. . Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Company, London . 1929.
• Book: Smith, Vincent A. . A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon. 1930. Clarendon Press . Oxford.
• Book: Some Notes on Indian Artistic Anatomy. Tagore, Abanindranath. Abanindranath Tagore. Indian Society of Oriental Art, Calcutta. 1914.
• Book: Report of the Indian Cinematograph Committee 1927-1928. 1928. Superintendent, The Government Press, Madras. Madras.

Performance art

• Book: The Music and Musical Instruments of southern India and the Deccan . Day, Charles Russel . William Gibb (lllus.) . Novello, Ewer & Co., London. 1891 .
• Book: Dhanamjaya. George C. O. Haas (trans.). The Dasarupa or Treatise on Ten Forms of Drama — A Treatise on Hindu Dramaturgy. 1912. Columbia University. New York.
• Book: Popley, Herbert Arthur. The Music of India . 1921. Association Press . Calcutta.
• Shourie, Arun. 1979. Hinduism, Essence and Consequence: A Study of the Upanishads, the Gita, and the Brahma-Sutras. Sahibabad, District. Ghaziabad: Vikas.
• Book: Strangways, A. H. Fox . The Music of Hindostan. 1914. Oxford University Press . London.

Religion, folk tales, and spiritual heritage

• Book: Alexander, Donald Mackenzie. Indian myth and legend. Donald Alexander Mackenzie. Gresham, London . 1913.
• Book: Coomaraswamy, Ananda Kentish . Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy. The Dance of Siva — fourteen Indian essays. 1918. The Sunwise Turn Inc., New York.
• 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.
  • 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.
• Book: Durga Puja — With Notes and Illustrations. Ghosha, Pratapchandra. The Hindu Patriot Press . Varanasi . 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. .^[5]
• Book: Nandikeśvara. Nandikeshvara. Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy

  Gopala Kristnayya Duggirala (trans.)

  . The Mirror of Gesture — Being the Abhinaya Darpana of Nandikeśvara. . 1917. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass. .
• 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.
• Book: Sadhana Naithani. In Quest of Indian Folktales: Pandit Ram Gharib Chaube and William Crooke. 21 May 2006. Indiana University Press. 0-253-11202-8.
• Yogananda, Paramahansa. 1946. Autobiography of a Yogi.
• Book: Sanatana Dharma: an advanced text book of Hindu religion and Ethics. Central Hindu College, Benaras. 1904.

Fiction

See also: List of Historical novels in Indian languages.

• Chatterjee, Bankim Chandra. [1882] 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.

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

External links

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

Notes and 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. Book: Chatterjee, Rimi B.. Print Areas: Book History in India. Orient Blackswan. 2004. 978-81-7824-082-4. Chakravorty. Swapan. Swapan Kumar Chakravorty. 65–102. "Every Line for India" : The Oxford University Press and the Rise and Fall of the Rulers of India Series. Rimi B. Chatterjee. Gupta. Abhijit. https://books.google.com/books?id=lKQPnCIZMnIC&pg=PA65.
3. Web site: Home. 2019-03-19. Being Different the Book. en.
4. Web site: The Battle for Sanskrit. 2019-03-19. The Battle for Sanskrit.
5. Web site: Indra's Net Rajiv Malhotra Infinity Foundation. 2019-03-19. en.