Bibliography of India

The court of Akbar, an illustration from a manuscript of the Akbarnama, 16th century

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
• , 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
• Mill, James, The History of British India, 1818.
• Tod, James, Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, 2 vols. London: Smith, Elder (1829, 1832).
• H. M. Elliot, Ed. John Dowson, The History of India, as Told by Its Own Historians. The Muhammadan Period (8 vols.), 1867-1877.
• The Discovery of India, by Jawaharlal Nehru, 1946.
• The History and Culture of the Indian People, 11 vols, ed. R. C. Majumdar. (1951)

Secondary sources

• India after Gandhi, by Ramachandra Guha, 2007.

Race, Caste and Tribe

Primary sources

Others

• – three volumes, published between 1920–1922
• Hindoo Tribes and Castes, 1872–81, 3 vols by M. A. Sherring

Biography

• Rulers of India series
• 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

Main article: Manuals and gazetteers of India

• The Imperial Gazetteer of India
• Chaudhuri, S. B. (1964) History of the Gazetteers of India, Publication Division, New Delhi.

Travelogues

Early period

• Great Tang Records on the Western Regions, by Hiuen Tsang. 646 CE.

Early modern period

Later 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.

Provinces

• Provincial Geographies of India edited by Thomas Henry Holland

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.

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.

Religion, culture and arts

• Coomaraswamy, Ananda Kentish, The Indian craftsman London: Probsthain, 1909

Fiction

See also: List of historical novels § India, and List of Historical novels in Indian languages

• 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

External links

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