Bibliography of India

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