This is a bibliography of notable works about India.

India history books

Single volume works

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.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• Lethbridge, Roper, Sir (1893). The History of India. London: Macmillan.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• 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. Vol. 1. London: Grolier Society. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |editorlink= ignored (|editor-link= suggested) (help)
• Smith, Vincent Arthur (1906). Williams Jackson, A. V. (ed.). History of India: From Sixth century B.C to Mohammedan Conquest . History of India. Vol. 2. London: Grolier Society. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |editorlink= ignored (|editor-link= suggested) (help)
• 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. Vol. 3. London: Grolier Society. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |editorlink= ignored (|editor-link= suggested) (help)
• 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. Vol. 4. London: Grolier Society. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |editorlink= ignored (|editor-link= suggested) (help)
• Elliot, H. M. (1907). Williams Jackson, A. V. (ed.). History of India: The Muhammadan Period as Described by Its Own Historians . History of India. Vol. 5. London: Grolier Society. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |editorlink= ignored (|editor-link= suggested) (help)
• 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. Vol. 6. London: Grolier Society. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |editorlink= ignored (|editor-link= suggested) (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• 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. Vol. 7. London: Grolier Society. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |editorlink= ignored (|editor-link= suggested) (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• 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. Vol. 8. London: Grolier Society. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |editorlink= ignored (|editor-link= suggested) (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• 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. Vol. 9. London: Grolier Society. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |editorlink= ignored (|editor-link= suggested) (help)
• 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.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• 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.

Race, Caste and Tribe

Primary sources

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. Vol. 1. Lal, Rai Bahadur Hira. London: Macmillan & Co.
• Russell, Robert Vane (1916). Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India. Vol. 2. Lal, Rai Bahadur Hira. London: Macmillan & Co.
• Russell, Robert Vane (1916). Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India. Vol. 3. Lal, Rai Bahadur Hira. London: Macmillan & Co.
• Russell, Robert Vane (1916). Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India. Vol. 4. Lal, Rai Bahadur Hira. London: Macmillan & Co.

Southern India

• Thurston, Edgar; Rangachari, K. (1909). Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. I (A and B). Madras: Government Press.
• Thurston, Edgar; Rangachari, K. (1909). Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. II (C to J). Madras: Government Press.
• Thurston, Edgar; Rangachari, K. (1909). Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. III (K). Madras: Government Press.
• Thurston, Edgar; Rangachari, K. (1909). Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. IV (K to M). Madras: Government Press.
• Thurston, Edgar; Rangachari, K. (1909). Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. V (M to P). Madras: Government Press.
• Thurston, Edgar; Rangachari, K. (1909). Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. VI (P to S). Madras: Government Press.
• Thurston, Edgar; Rangachari, K. (1909). Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 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. {{cite book}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)

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^[1]
• 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.,.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
• Tavernier, Jean Baptiste; Ball, Valentine (tr. from the Orig French Ed. 1676) (1899). Travels in India (Vol. 2). London: Macmillan & Co.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
• 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.

Princely states

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. {{cite book}}: |author= has generic name (help)

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. {{cite book}}: |author= has generic name (help)
• 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.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• ., 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. {{cite book}}: |last= has numeric name (help)
• 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. {{cite book}}: |last= has numeric name (help)
• 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

See also

• History of India
• Indian literature
• Indology
• Bibliography of Ganges
• Bibliography of Varanasi
• The Cambridge History of India
• The New Cambridge History of India

References

External links

• The Indian City, 1700 to the Present: A Select Research Bibliography by Vinay Lal
• Banaras Bibliography by Jörg Gengnagel & Axel Michaels