Bibliography of India

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

The ruins of Nalanda university, which had well-equipped libraries. The number of volumes in the Nalanda library is not known, but it is estimated to have been in the hundreds of thousands.
The court of Akbar, an illustration from a manuscript of the Akbarnama, 16th century

India history books

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Single volume works

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Primary sources

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Ancient India
Medieval India
British Raj
  • Nehru, Jawaharlal. 1946. The Discovery of India.
  • Hunter, William Wilson (1893). A Brief History of the Indian Peoples. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  • Hudson, Roger, ed. (1999). The Raj: an eye-witness history of the British in India. London: Folio Society.
  • Mill, James. 1817, 1820, 1826. The History of British India, edited by Horace Hayman Wilson (1848, 1858).

Secondary sources

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Multivolume works

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Race, caste and tribe

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Northern India

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Central Provinces

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Southern India

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Secondary sources

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Biography

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Biographical dictionaries and encyclopedias

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Manuals and gazetteers

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Travelogues

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Early period

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Early modern period

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Late modern

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Provinces

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Biodiversity and environment

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  • 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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Princely states

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People, politics and customs

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Religion, culture and arts

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Performance art

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Religion, folk tales, and spiritual heritage

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Fiction

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ Pandit. N. K., trans. 2009. A Muslim Missionary in Mediaeval Kashmir: Being the English translation of Tohfatu'l-ahbab. New Delhi: Voice of India.
  2. ^ Chatterjee, Rimi B. (2004). ""Every Line for India" : The Oxford University Press and the Rise and Fall of the Rulers of India Series". In Chakravorty, Swapan; Gupta, Abhijit (eds.). Print Areas: Book History in India. Orient Blackswan. pp. 65–102. ISBN 978-81-7824-082-4.
  3. ^ "Home". Being Different the Book. Retrieved 19 March 2019.
  4. ^ "The Battle for Sanskrit". The Battle for Sanskrit. Retrieved 19 March 2019.
  5. ^ "Indra's Net | Rajiv Malhotra | Infinity Foundation". Retrieved 19 March 2019.
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