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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 The Ashokavadana ( sa, अशोकावदान; ; "Narrative of Ashoka") is an Indian Sanskrit-language text that describes the birth and reign of the Third Mauryan Emperor Ashoka. It contains legends as well as historical narratives, and ...
'', 2nd century CE * * * ;Medieval India * ibn Mubarak, Abu'l-Fazl. 16th century. '' Ain-i-Akbari'',
Akbarnama The ''Akbarnama'', which translates to ''Book of Akbar'', the official chronicle of the reign of Akbar, the third Mughal Emperor (), commissioned by Akbar himself and written by his court historian and biographer, Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak. It was w ...
Vol. 3
Full online set
* Jahangir, Nur-ud-din Muhammad. 16th century. ''
Tuzk-e-Jahangiri ''Tuzuk-e-Jahangiri'' or ''Tuzuk-i-Jahangiri'' ( fa, ) or Jahangir-nama ( fa, ) is the autobiography of Mughal Emperor Jahangir (1569–1627). Also referred to as ''Jahangirnama'', the ''Tuzk-e-Jahangiri'' is written in Persian, and follows th ...
''. * Kashmiri, Muhammad Ali. 1642. ''Tohfatu'l-ahbab''. * Qazvini, Muhammad Amin. 1646. ''
Padshah Nama Padshahnama or ''Badshah Nama'' ( fa, پادشاهنامه or پادشاه‌نامه) (Chronicle of the Emperor Shah Jahan) is a group of works written as the official history of the reign of the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan. Unillustrated texts ...
''. * 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. * * Elphinstone, Mountstuart. 1841. ''The History of India'', 2 vols. London: John Murray
vol. 1vol. 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. 1vol. 2
* * Elliot, Henry M. 1867–1877. ''
The History of India, as Told by Its Own Historians. The Muhammadan Period ''The History of India, as Told by Its Own Historians'' is a book comprising translations of medieval Persian chronicles based on the work of Henry Miers Elliot. It was originally published as a set of eight volumes between 1867-1877 in London. ...
'', 8 vols., edited by J. Dowson. * * * ;British Raj * Nehru, Jawaharlal. 1946. ''
The Discovery of India ''The Discovery of India'' was written by the Indian Independence leader, Jawaharlal Nehru (later India's first Prime Minister) during his incarceration in 1942–1945 at Ahmednagar fort in present day Indian state of Maharashtra by British co ...
''. * * * Mill, James. 1817, 1820, 1826. ''
The History of British India ''The History of British India'' is a three-volume work by the Scottish historian, economist, political theorist, and philosopher James Mill, charting the history of Company rule in India. The work, first published in 1817, was an instant succe ...
'', edited by
Horace Hayman Wilson Horace Hayman Wilson (26 September 1786 – 8 May 1860) was an English orientalist who was elected the first Boden Professor of Sanskrit at Oxford University. Life He studied medicine at St Thomas's Hospital, and went out to India in 1808 as a ...
(1848, 1858).


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 Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers Pvt. Ltd. (MRML) is a leading publishing house located in New Delhi, India. Established in 1952 by Manohar Lal Jain, it is one of the oldest publishing houses in India. About MRML publishes books on social sc ...
. *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. * * Guha, Ramachandra. 2007. '' India after Gandhi''. * Dharampal.
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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.
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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 ''The Argumentative Indian'' is a book written by Nobel Prize winning Indian economist Amartya Sen. It is a collection of essays that discuss India's history and identity, focusing on the traditions of public debate and intellectual pluralism. Mar ...
''. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.


Multivolume works

* * Chattopadhyaya, Debbi P., ed. 2009. ''
Project of History of Indian Science, Philosophy and culture Project of History of Indian science and civilization (PHISPC) is a project initiated by the Centre for Studies in Civilizations under the editorship of Professor D. P. Chattopadhyaya in India. The series also contains 20 monographs. PHISPC is a ...
'', 20 vols.
Centre for Studies in Civilizations The Centre for Studies in Civilizations (CSC), founded 12 October 1995, is a non-governmental organization (NGO) based in India. According to their website, the center "aims at conducting, promoting and facilitating studies and research in the br ...
. * * * * 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 ''The History and Culture of the Indian People'' is a series of eleven volumes on the history of India, from prehistoric times to the establishment of the modern state in 1947. Historian Ramesh Chandra Majumdar was the general editor of the serie ...
'', 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. *


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 ''A Glossary of the Tribes and Castes of the Punjab and North-West Frontier Province'' is an ethnological study of areas of present-day Pakistan and India. It was compiled by Indian Civil Service administrator H.A. Rose, based on the 1883 and 189 ...
'', 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

* * * * 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 Francis Herbert Stead (1857 – 14 January 1928), commonly cited as F. H. Stead, was a British social reformer notable for the establishment of Browning Hall in London, 1895, and for his work on the National Committee of Organised Labou ...
. 1914. ''The Life and Letters of Raja Rammohun Roy'', edited by Hem Chandra Sarkar. * Fauja, S., and
Gurbachan Singh Talib Sardar Gurbachan Singh ( pa, ਸਰਦਾਰ ਗੁਰਬਚਨ ਸਿੰਘ ਤਾਲਿਬ (Gurmukhi); 1911–1986) was a Sikh scholar, professor, and author. He was born in Moonak, Sangrur district. He was a lecturer at the Sikh National ...
. 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 The ''Rulers of India'' was a biographical book series edited by William Wilson Hunter and published from the Clarendon Press, Oxford. Hunter himself contributed the volumes on Dalhousie (1890) and Mayo (1891) to the series. Background William ...
'', 28 vols. * Kanigel, Robert. 1991. ''
The Man Who Knew Infinity ''The Man Who Knew Infinity'' is a 2015 British biographical drama film about the Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan, based on the 1991 book of the same name by Robert Kanigel. The film stars Dev Patel as Srinivasa Ramanujan, a real-life ...
''. * Karkare, Neelesh Ishwarchandra. ''Biography on Great Warrior Shreenath Mahadji Shinde''. * Kaviraj, Krishnadas. 1582. ''
Chaitanya Charitamrita The ''Chaitanya Charitamrita'' (; bn, চৈতন্যচরিতামৃত, Côitônyôcôritamṛtô), composed by Krishnadasa Kaviraja in 1557, is written in Bengali with a great number of Sanskrit verses in its devotional, poetic const ...
''. ** 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 Sister Nivedita ( born Margaret Elizabeth Noble; 28 October 1867 – 13 October 1911) was an Irish teacher, author, social activist, school founder and disciple of Swami Vivekananda. She spent her childhood and early youth in Ireland. She was ...
. 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 ''The Springing Tiger'' is a historical account of the Indian National Army published in 1959 by Col Hugh Toye. The book was published in London by Cassell Publishers, and is considered one of the first Sympathetic Western accounts of the army. ...
''. * Yogananda, Paramahansa. 1946. ''
Autobiography of a Yogi ''Autobiography of a Yogi'' is an autobiography of Paramahansa Yogananda (5 January 1893 – 7 March 1952) first published in 1946. Paramahansa Yogananda was born as Mukunda Lal Ghosh in Gorakhpur, India, into a Bengali Hindu family. '' ...
''.
''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 Subodh Chandra Sengupta (27 June 1903 – 3 December 1998) was an Indian scholar, academic and critic of English literature, known for his scholarship on Shakespearean works. His books on William Shakespeare, which included ''Aspects of Shakespea ...

Dictionary of National Biography 4 vols
ed. Sibapada Sen *
The Indian Biographical Dictionary This is an incomplete list of biographical dictionaries. International * '' A Biographical Dictionary of Railway Engineers'' * '' Biographical Dictionary of the Extreme Right Since 1890'' * Akyeampong, Emmanuel and Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., ed ...
(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. * * * ''
The Imperial Gazetteer of India ''The Imperial Gazetteer of India'' was a gazetteer of the British Indian Empire, and is now a historical reference work. It was first published in 1881. Sir William Wilson Hunter made the original plans of the book, starting in 1869.< ...
''


Travelogues


Early period

*'' Indica'' by
Megasthenes Megasthenes ( ; grc, Μεγασθένης, c. 350 BCE– c. 290 BCE) was an ancient Greek historian, diplomat and Indian ethnographer and explorer in the Hellenistic period. He described India in his book '' Indica'', which is now lost, but has ...
, c. 300 BCE *, 414 CE * * *''
Great Tang Records on the Western Regions The ''Great Tang Records on the Western Regions'' is a narrative of Xuanzang's nineteen-year journey from Chang'an in central China to the Western Regions of Chinese historiography. The Buddhist scholar traveled through the Silk Road regions of ...
'', by
Hiuen Tsang Xuanzang (, ; 602–664), born Chen Hui / Chen Yi (), also known as Hiuen Tsang, was a 7th-century Chinese Buddhist monk, scholar, traveler, and translator. He is known for the epoch-making contributions to Chinese Buddhism, the travelogue of ...
. 646 CE. * * * *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

* * * * * *Meenakshi Jain, The India They Saw (co-edited with Sandhya Jain, 4 Volumes, Prabhat Prakashan), , , , .


Late modern

*
Emily Eden Emily Eden (3 March 1797 – 5 August 1869) was an English poet and novelist who gave witty accounts of English life in the early 19th century. She wrote a celebrated account of her travels in India, and two novels that sold well. She was also a ...
. ''Up the Country'' * * ''
Begums Thugs and White Mughals ''Begums, Thugs and White Mughals: The Journals of Fanny Parkes'' is a 2002 historical travel book based on the journals of Fanny Parkes and edited by William Dalrymple (historian), William Dalrymple. Dalrymple's work on this book followed his e ...
''.
Fanny Parkes Fanny Parkes or Parks (née Frances Susanna Archer) (1794–1875) was a travel writer from Wales, known for her extensive journals about colonial India, where she lived for 24 years. These are recorded in her memoirs ''Wanderings of a Pilgrim in ...
, ed.
William Dalrymple William Dalrymple may refer to: * William Dalrymple (1678–1744), Scottish Member of Parliament * William Dalrymple (moderator) (1723–1814), Scottish minister and religious writer * William Dalrymple (British Army officer) (1736–1807), Scott ...
. 2002 * ''
The Hill of Devi ''The Hill of Devi'' is an account by E. M. Forster of two visits to India in 1912–1913 and 1921, during which he worked as the private secretary to Tukojirao III, the Maharaja of the state of Dewas Senior. The book was first published in 19 ...
''.
E. M. Forster Edward Morgan Forster (1 January 1879 – 7 June 1970) was an English author, best known for his novels, particularly ''A Room with a View'' (1908), ''Howards End'' (1910), and ''A Passage to India'' (1924). He also wrote numerous short stori ...
, 1953. * '' A Walk Along the Ganges''. Dennison Berwick. 1985. * '' India: A Million Mutinies Now''.
V. S. Naipaul Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul (; 17 August 1932 – 11 August 2018) was a Trinidadian-born British writer of works of fiction and nonfiction in English. He is known for his comic early novels set in Trinidad, his bleaker novels of alienati ...
. 1990.


Provinces

* Holland, Thomas Henry, ed. ''
Provincial Geographies of India The ''Provincial Geographies of India'' was a four-volume book series which was published between 1913-23 by the Cambridge University Press under the editorship of Thomas Henry Holland Sir Thomas Henry Holland (22 November 1868 – 15 ...
''.


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

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Fauna

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Lepidoptera Indica ''Lepidoptera Indica'' was a 10 volume work on the butterflies of the Indian region that was begun in 1890 and completed in 1913. It was published by Lovell Reeve and Co. of London. It has been considered the ''magnum opus'' of its author, Freder ...
'' *''
The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma ''The Fauna of British India'' (short title) with long titles including ''The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma'', and ''The Fauna of British India Including the Remainder of the Oriental Region'' is a series of scientific books th ...
'' * 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 Charles Lionel Augustus de Nicéville (1852 in Bristol – 3 December 1901 in Calcutta from malaria) was a curator at the Indian Museum in Calcutta (now Kolkata). He studied the butterflies of the Indian Subcontinent and wrote a three volume mono ...
. ''Butterflies of India, Burmah and Ceylon''.


Princely states

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People, politics and customs

* * * * * *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. * * * * * * 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

* * * Coomaraswamy, Ananda Kentish. 1909. ''The Indian Craftsman''. London: Probsthain. * * Ghose, Aurobindo. 1998. ''The Foundations of Indian Culture''. Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram. * *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 The Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute is a binational non-profit organization with registered charity status in Canada. The institute supports the creation of binational links between academia, government, the business community and civil society o ...
. 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. * * * *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. . *—— 2016. '' Battle for Sanskrit''. Harper Collins India. . * 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. * * * *


Performance art

* * * *
Shourie, Arun Arun Shourie (born 2 November 1941) is an Indian economist, journalist, author and politician. He has worked as an economist with the World Bank, a consultant to the Planning Commission of India, editor of the ''Indian Express'' and ''The Times ...
. 1979. ''Hinduism, Essence and Consequence: A Study of the Upanishads, the Gita, and the Brahma-Sutras''. Sahibabad, District. Ghaziabad: Vikas. *


Religion, folk tales, and spiritual heritage

* * * 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. * *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. . * *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 ''The Principal Upanishads'' is a 1953 book written by Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1888–1975), then Vice President of India (and later President of India), about the main Upanishads, which carry central teachings of the Vedanta. Originally publis ...
''. *
Shourie, Arun Arun Shourie (born 2 November 1941) is an Indian economist, journalist, author and politician. He has worked as an economist with the World Bank, a consultant to the Planning Commission of India, editor of the ''Indian Express'' and ''The Times ...
. 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. * * Yogananda, Paramahansa. 1946. ''
Autobiography of a Yogi ''Autobiography of a Yogi'' is an autobiography of Paramahansa Yogananda (5 January 1893 – 7 March 1952) first published in 1946. Paramahansa Yogananda was born as Mukunda Lal Ghosh in Gorakhpur, India, into a Bengali Hindu family. '' ...
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Fiction

* Chatterjee, Bankim Chandra.
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Anandamath ''Anandamath'' ( bn, আনন্দমঠ ''Anondomôţh'') ( The Abbey of Bliss) is a Bengali fiction, written by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay and published in 1882. It is inspired by and set in the background of the Sannyasi Rebellion in ...
'', edited by B. K. Roy. * Farrell, James G. 1973. ''
The Siege of Krishnapur ''The Siege of Krishnapur'' is a novel by J. G. Farrell, first published in 1973. Inspired by events such as the sieges of Cawnapore (Kanpur) and Lucknow, the book details the siege of a fictional Indian town, Krishnapur, during the Indian Reb ...
''. * Forster, E. M. 1924. '' Passage to India''. * Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer. 1960. ''
The Householder ''The Householder'' (Hindi title: ''Gharbar'') is a 1963 film by Merchant Ivory Productions, with a screenplay by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and James Ivory, and direction of James Ivory. It is based upon the 1960 novel of the same name by Jhabvala. ...
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Heat and Dust ''Heat and Dust'' (1975) is a novel by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala that won the Booker Prize in 1975. The book was also ranked by ''The Telegraph'' in 2014 as one of the 10 all-time greatest Asian novels. Plot summary The initial stages of the nove ...
''. * Kipling, Rudyard. 1894. ''
The Jungle Book ''The Jungle Book'' (1894) is a collection of stories by the English author Rudyard Kipling. Most of the characters are animals such as Shere Khan the tiger and Baloo the bear, though a principal character is the boy or "man-cub" Mowgli, ...
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''. * Masters, John. 1951. ''
Nightrunners of Bengal ''Nightrunners of Bengal'' is the title of the first novel by John Masters. It is a work of historical fiction set against the background of the Indian Rebellion of 1857, Indian Rebellion of 1857. It was published in 1951 in the United Kingdom ...
''. * Rushdie, Salman. 1981. ''
Midnight's Children ''Midnight's Children'' is a 1981 novel by Indian-British writer Salman Rushdie, published by Jonathan Cape with cover design by Bill Botten, about India's transition from British colonial rule to independence and partition. It is a postcolo ...
''. * Scott, Paul. 1965–75. ''
Raj Quartet ''The Raj Quartet'' is a four-volume novel sequence, written by Paul Scott (novelist), Paul Scott, about the concluding years of the British Raj in India. The series was written during the period 1965–75. ''The Times'' called it "one of ...
''. * Smith, Zadie. 2000. ''
White Teeth ''White Teeth'' is a 2000 novel by the British author Zadie Smith. It focuses on the later lives of two wartime friends—the Bangladeshi Samad Iqbal and the Englishman Archie Jones—and their families in London. The novel centres on Britain' ...
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Wu Cheng'en Wu Cheng'en (, c. 1500–1582Shi Changyu (1999). "Introduction." in trans. W.J.F. Jenner, ''Journey to the West'', volume 1. Seventh Edition. Beijing: Foreign Languages Press. pp. 1–22. or 1505–1580), courtesy name Ruzhong (), was a Chines ...
. c. 1590s. ''
Journey to the West ''Journey to the West'' () is a Chinese novel published in the 16th century during the Ming dynasty and attributed to Wu Cheng'en. It is regarded as one of the greatest Classic Chinese Novels, and has been described as arguably the most popu ...
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See also

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History of India According to consensus in modern genetics, anatomically modern humans first arrived on the Indian subcontinent from Africa between 73,000 and 55,000 years ago. Quote: "Y-Chromosome and Mt-DNA data support the colonization of South Asia by m ...
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Indian literature Indian literature refers to the literature produced on the Indian subcontinent until 1947 and in the Republic of India thereafter. The Republic of India has 22 officially recognised languages. The earliest works of Indian literature were o ...
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Indology Indology, also known as South Asian studies, is the academic study of the History of India, history and Culture of India, cultures, Languages of South Asia, languages, and Indian literature, literature of the Indian subcontinent, and as such is a ...
* Bibliography of Ganges * Bibliography of Varanasi * ''
The Cambridge History of India ''The Cambridge History of India'' was a major work of historical scholarship published in five volumes between 1922 and 1937 by Cambridge University Press. Some volumes were also part of ''The Cambridge History of the British Empire''. Production ...
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The New Cambridge History of India ''The New Cambridge History of India'' is a major multi-volume work of historical scholarship published by Cambridge University Press. It replaced ''The Cambridge History of India'' published between 1922 and 1937. The new history is being publis ...
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