Bibliography of India



This is a bibliography of notable works about the historical Indian subcontinent as well as the modern-day Republic of India.

Multivolume works

 * 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.
 * Chattopadhyaya, Debbi P., ed. 2009. Project of History of Indian Science, Philosophy and culture, 20 vols. Centre for Studies in Civilizations.
 * 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, 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.
 * 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, 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.

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, 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)

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. 1914. The Life and Letters of Raja Rammohun Roy, edited by Hem Chandra Sarkar.
 * Fauja, S., and Gurbachan Singh Talib. 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, 28 vols.
 * Kanigel, Robert. 1991. The Man Who Knew Infinity.
 * Karkare, Neelesh Ishwarchandra. Biography on Great Warrior Shreenath Mahadji Shinde.
 * Kaviraj, Krishnadas. 1582. Chaitanya Charitamrita.
 * 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. 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.
 * Yogananda, Paramahansa. 1946. Autobiography of a Yogi.
 * 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
 * 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

 * Chaudhuri, S. B. 1964. History of the Gazetteers of India. New Delhi: Publication Division.
 * The Imperial Gazetteer of India
 * The Imperial Gazetteer of India
 * The Imperial Gazetteer of India

Early period

 * Indica by Megasthenes, c. 300 BCE
 * , 414 CE
 * Great Tang Records on the Western Regions, by Hiuen Tsang. 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.
 * Great Tang Records on the Western Regions, by Hiuen Tsang. 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.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * 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), ISBN 8184301065, ISBN 8184301073, ISBN 8184301081, ISBN 818430109X.
 * Meenakshi Jain, The India They Saw (co-edited with Sandhya Jain, 4 Volumes, Prabhat Prakashan), ISBN 8184301065, ISBN 8184301073, ISBN 8184301081, ISBN 818430109X.
 * Meenakshi Jain, The India They Saw (co-edited with Sandhya Jain, 4 Volumes, Prabhat Prakashan), ISBN 8184301065, ISBN 8184301073, ISBN 8184301081, ISBN 818430109X.
 * Meenakshi Jain, The India They Saw (co-edited with Sandhya Jain, 4 Volumes, Prabhat Prakashan), ISBN 8184301065, ISBN 8184301073, ISBN 8184301081, ISBN 818430109X.
 * Meenakshi Jain, The India They Saw (co-edited with Sandhya Jain, 4 Volumes, Prabhat Prakashan), ISBN 8184301065, ISBN 8184301073, ISBN 8184301081, ISBN 818430109X.
 * Meenakshi Jain, The India They Saw (co-edited with Sandhya Jain, 4 Volumes, Prabhat Prakashan), ISBN 8184301065, ISBN 8184301073, ISBN 8184301081, ISBN 818430109X.

Late modern

 * Emily Eden. Up the Country
 * 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.
 * India: A Million Mutinies Now. V. S. Naipaul. 1990.

Provinces

 * Holland, Thomas Henry, ed. Provincial Geographies of India.

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

Fauna

 * Lepidoptera Indica
 * The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma
 * 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. Butterflies of India, Burmah and Ceylon.

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.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * Goel, S. R. 1998. Vindicated by Time: The Niyogi Committee Report on Christian Missionary Activities. Madhya Pradesh: Christian Missionary Activities Enquiry Committee.
 * Goel, S. R. 1998. Vindicated by Time: The Niyogi Committee Report on Christian Missionary Activities. Madhya Pradesh: Christian Missionary Activities Enquiry Committee.
 * Goel, S. R. 1998. Vindicated by Time: The Niyogi Committee Report on Christian Missionary Activities. Madhya Pradesh: Christian Missionary Activities Enquiry Committee.
 * Goel, S. R. 1998. Vindicated by Time: The Niyogi Committee Report on Christian Missionary Activities. Madhya Pradesh: Christian Missionary Activities Enquiry Committee.
 * Goel, S. R. 1998. Vindicated by Time: The Niyogi Committee Report on Christian Missionary Activities. Madhya Pradesh: Christian Missionary Activities Enquiry Committee.
 * 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. 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. ISBN 978-9-350-29190-0.
 * —— 2016. Battle for Sanskrit. Harper Collins India. ISBN 978-93-5177-538-6.
 * 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.
 * 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. ISBN 978-9-350-29190-0.
 * —— 2016. Battle for Sanskrit. Harper Collins India. ISBN 978-93-5177-538-6.
 * 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. 1979. Hinduism, Essence and Consequence: A Study of the Upanishads, the Gita, and the Brahma-Sutras. Sahibabad, District. Ghaziabad: Vikas.
 * Shourie, Arun. 1979. Hinduism, Essence and Consequence: A Study of the Upanishads, the Gita, and the Brahma-Sutras. Sahibabad, District. Ghaziabad: Vikas.
 * Shourie, Arun. 1979. Hinduism, Essence and Consequence: A Study of the Upanishads, the Gita, and the Brahma-Sutras. Sahibabad, District. Ghaziabad: Vikas.
 * Shourie, Arun. 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. ISBN 978-9-351-36244-9.
 * 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.
 * Shourie, Arun. 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.
 * Shourie, Arun. 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.
 * Yogananda, Paramahansa. 1946. Autobiography of a Yogi.

Fiction

 * Chatterjee, Bankim Chandra. [1882] 2014. Anandamath, edited by B. K. Roy.
 * Farrell, James G. 1973. The Siege of Krishnapur.
 * Forster, E. M. 1924. Passage to India.
 * Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer. 1960. The Householder.
 * —— 1975. Heat and Dust.
 * Kipling, Rudyard. 1894. The Jungle Book.
 * —— 1901. Kim.
 * Masters, John. 1951. Nightrunners of Bengal.
 * Rushdie, Salman. 1981. Midnight's Children.
 * Scott, Paul. 1965–75. Raj Quartet.
 * Smith, Zadie. 2000. White Teeth.
 * Wu Cheng'en. c. 1590s. Journey to the West.