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.
Contents
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
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- 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
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- Mill, James, The History of British India, 1818.
- Tod, James, Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, 2 vols. London: Smith, Elder (1829, 1832).
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- H. M. Elliot, Ed. John Dowson, The History of India, as Told by Its Own Historians. The Muhammadan Period (8 vols.), 1867-1877.
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- The Discovery of India, by Jawaharlal Nehru, 1946.
- The History and Culture of the Indian People, 11 vols, ed. R. C. Majumdar. (1951)
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Secondary sources
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- India after Gandhi, by Ramachandra Guha, 2007.
Multivolume works
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Race, Caste and Tribe
Primary sources
Northern India
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Central Provinces
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Southern India
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Others
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- Hindoo Tribes and Castes, 1872–81, 3 vols by M. A. Sherring
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Secondary sources
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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
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- The Imperial Gazetteer of India
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- Chaudhuri, S. B. (1964) History of the Gazetteers of India, Publication Division, New Delhi.
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Travelogues
- Early period
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- Great Tang Records on the Western Regions, by Hiuen Tsang. 646 CE.
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- Early modern period
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- Later modern
- Emily Eden. Up the Country
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- 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
Flora
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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
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Secondary sources
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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
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People, politics and customs
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Religion, culture and arts
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- Coomaraswamy, Ananda Kentish, The Indian craftsman London: Probsthain, 1909
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Fiction
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- 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
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