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Bibliography of India

This is a bibliography of notable works about India.

Contents

Primary sources

  • Indica by Megasthenes, c. 300 BCE
  • Bibliotheca historica: Book II: The East. by Diodorus Siculus, 1st century BC, p. 35‑60.
  • Ashokavadana, 2nd century CE
  • Fa, Hien (1877). "Record of the Buddhistic Kingdoms" by Fa Hien (414 AD). Herbert A. Giles (trans.). London: Trubner & Co. , 414 CE
  • 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. 
  • Mill, James, The History of British India, 1818.
  • Tod, James, Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, 2 vols. London: Smith, Elder (1829, 1832).
  • 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.
  • Hunter, William Wilson, Sir (1893). A Brief History of the Indian Peoples. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 
  • 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. 
  • 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. 
  • The Discovery of India, by Jawaharlal Nehru, 1946.
  • The History and Culture of the Indian People, 11 vols, ed. R. C. Majumdar. (1951)
  • Sen, Amartya (2005). The Argumentative Indian. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 
  • Hudson, Roger, ed. (1999). The Raj: an eye-witness history of the British in India. London: Folio Society. 

    • Secondary sources

  • Richards, John F. (1995). The Mughal Empire. 
  • India after Gandhi, by Ramachandra Guha, 2007.

    • 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. 
  • 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. 
  • 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. 

    • 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. 
  • Triloki Nath Dhar (1 January 2006). Kashmiri Pandit Community: A Profile. Mittal Publications. ISBN 978-81-8324-177-9. 

    • Biography

  • Rulers of India series
  • 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
  • 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 Life of Vivekananada and the Universal Gospel by Romain Rolland
  • The Springing Tiger (1959) by Hugh Toye
  • 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
  • Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay : an intellectual biography (2008) by Amiya Prosad Sen
  • Bankimchandra Chatterjee (1977) by Subodh Chandra Sengupta
  • 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 celebraton, 1933 (1935) by Rammohun Roy Centenary Committee
  • India's First Communist (1988) by Samaren Roy
  • 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
  • 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

    • 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
  • 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. 
    • 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. 
    • 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.

    • 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.

    • 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. 
  • Karaka, Dosabhai Framjee (1884). History of the Parsis — Including their manners, customs, religion and present position. (Vol. 2). Macmillan & Co., London. 
  • 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. 

    • Religion, culture and arts

  • 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. 
  • Charles Russel Day (1891). The Music and Musical Instruments of southern India and the Deccan. William Gibb (lllus.). Novello, Ewer & Co., London. 
  • Gibson, Agnes C.; Jas. Burgess (1901). Buddhist Art in India. Bernard Quaritch, London. 
  • Havell, E. B. (1908). Indian sculpture and painting. John Murray, London. 
  • 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
  • Havell, E. B. (1913). Indian Architecture, its psychology, structure, and history from the first Muhammadan invasion to the present day. London: John Murray. 
  • Coomaraswamy, Ananda K. (1914). Viśvakarmā ; examples of Indian architecture, sculpture, painting, handicraft. London. 
  • ., 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. 
  • Donald Alexander, Mackenzie (1913). Indian myth and legend. Gresham, 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. 
  • Strangways, A. H. Fox (1914). The Music of Hindostan. London: Oxford University Press. 
  • Havell, E. B. (1920). A Handbook of Indian Art. London: John Murray. 
  • Popley, Herbert Arthur (1921). The Music of India. Calcutta: Association Press. 
  • Abanindranath Tagore (1914). Some Notes on Indian Artistic Anatomy. Indian Society of Oriental Art, Calcutta. 
  • 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

  • Journey to the West, by Wu Cheng'en. 1590s
  • Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, Kim and many short story collections
  • Passage to India (1924), by E. M. Forster
  • 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
  • Paul Scott's Raj Quartet
  • Zadie Smith, White Teeth

    • References

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