Bibliography of India
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The court of Akbar, an illustration from a manuscript of the Akbarnama, 16th century
This is a bibliography of notable works about India.
India history books
- Indica by Megasthenes, c. 300 BCE
- Ashokavadana, 2nd century CE
- Fa, Hien; Tr. from the Chinese by Herbert A. Giles (1877). "Record of the Buddhistic Kingdoms" by Fa Hien (414 AD). London: Trubner & Co. , 414 CE
- Ain-i-Akbari, (Vol. 3 of Akbarnama). Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak. 16th century
- Jahangirnama (Tuzk-e-Jahangiri), 16th century
- Padshah Nama, by Muhammad Amin Qazvini. 1646
- Firishta, Muhammad Qasim Hindu Shah Astarabadi; Tr. by Jonathan Scott (1794). Ferishta's History of Dekkan..(Vol. 1). London: John Stockdale.
- Firishta, Muhammad Qasim Hindu Shah Astarabadi; Tr. by Jonathan Scott (1794). Ferishta's History of Dekkan..(Vol. 2). 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 (1843 (First 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.). Kegan Paul, Trench Trubner & Co. Ltd., London.
- 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.
- The Imperial Gazetteer of India, 4 vols., (1881, 1908–1931)
- 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.
- Dutt, Romesh Chunder (1906). History of India: From the Earliest times to the Sixth century B.C (Vol. 1). London: Grolier Society.
- Smith, Vincent Arthur (1906). History of India: From Sixth century B.C to Mohammedan Conquest (Vol. 2). London: Grolier Society.
- Lane-Poole, Stanley (1906). History of India: From Mohammedan Conquest to the Reign of Akbar the Great (Vol. 3). London: Grolier Society.
- Lane-Poole, Stanley (1906). History of India: From Reign of Akbar the Great to the Fall of Moghul Empire (Vol. 4). London: Grolier Society.
- Elliot, H. M. (1907). History of India: The Muhammadan Period as Described by Its Own Historians (Vol. 5). London: Grolier Society.
- Hunter, William Wilson, Sir (1906). History of India: From the first European settlements to the founding of the English East India Company (Vol. 6). London: Grolier Society.
- Hunter, William Wilson, Sir (1906). History of India: The European struggle for Indian supremacy in the seventeenth century (Vol. 7). London: Grolier Society.
- Lyall, A. C., Sir (1907). History of India: From the close of the seventeenth century to the present time (Vol. 8). London: Grolier Society.
- Jackson, A. V. Williams (1907). History of India: Historic accounts of India by foreign travellers, classic, oriental, and occidental (Vol. 9). London: Grolier Society.
- De La Fosse, C. F. (1918, Revised ed.). History of India. 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- India after Gandhi, by Ramachandra Guha, 2007.
Travelogues
- Early period
- 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.
Princely states
- 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.
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.
People 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.
- Athalye, D.V. (1921). The Life of Lokamanya Tilak. A. Chiploonkar, Poona.
Religion, culture and arts
- Pratapchandra Ghosha, ed. (1871). Durga Puja - With Notes and Illustrations. Varanasi: The Hindu Patriot Press.
- Charles Russel Day; William Gibb (lllus.) (1891). The Music and Musical Instruments of southern India and the Deccan. Novello, Ewer & Co., London.
- Gibson, Agnes C.; Tr. from the 'Handbook' of Prof. Albert Grunwedel; Revised and Enlarged by 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; (tr. from Sanskrit by George C. O. Haas) (1912). The Dasarupa or Treatise on Ten Forms of Drama - A Treatise on Hindu Dramaturgy. New York: Columbia University.
- ., Nandikeśvara; (tr. by Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy and Gopala Kristnayya Duggirala (1917). The Mirror of Gesture - Being the Abhinaya Darpana of Nandikeśvara.. 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, Kim and many short story collections by
- Passage to India, by E. M. Forster
- Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
- The Siege of Krishnapur, by J. G. Farrell
- John Masters, Nightrunners of Bengal and other novels by
- Paul Scott's Raj Quartet
- Zadie Smith, White Teeth
- Anita Desai
See also
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