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

Primary sources

Ancient India
  • Diodorus Siculus, 1st century BC. "Book II: The East." Pp. 35–60 in Bibliotheca historica.
  • 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
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. ISBN 978-0199931361
  • Richards, John F. (1995). The Mughal Empire.
  • 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. ISBN 81-7102-099-2.
  • —— 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

Biography

Biographical dictionaries and encyclopedias

Manuals and gazetteers

Travelogues

Early period

Early modern period

Late modern

Provinces

Biodiversity

Flora

Fauna

Princely states

People, politics and customs

Religion, culture and arts

Performance art

Religion, folk tales, and spiritual heritage

Fiction

See also

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. 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.
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