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 edit

Single volume works edit

Primary sources edit

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 edit

Multivolume works edit

Race, caste and tribe edit

Primary sources edit

Northern India edit

Central Provinces edit

Southern India edit

Secondary sources edit

Biography edit

Biographical dictionaries and encyclopedias edit

Manuals and gazetteers edit

Travelogues edit

Early period edit

Early modern period edit

Late modern edit

Provinces edit

Biodiversity and environment edit

  • 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 edit

Fauna edit

Princely states edit

People, politics and customs edit

Religion, culture and arts edit

Performance art edit

Religion, folk tales, and spiritual heritage edit

Fiction edit

See also edit

References edit

  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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