Bibliography of India

This is a bibliography of notable works about India.

India history books

Single volume works

Primary sources

;Ancient India
* Diodorus Siculus, 1st century BC.
Book II: The East
" Pp. 35–60 in '' Bibliotheca historica''.
* ''Ashokavadana'', 2nd century CE
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;Medieval India
* ibn Mubarak, Abu'l-Fazl. 16th century. '' Ain-i-Akbari'', Akbarnama Vol. 3
Full online set

* Jahangir, Nur-ud-din Muhammad. 16th century. ''Tuzk-e-Jahangiri''.
* Kashmiri, Muhammad Ali. 1642. ''Tohfatu'l-ahbab''.
* Qazvini, Muhammad Amin. 1646. ''Padshah Nama''.
* 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.
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* Elphinstone, Mountstuart. 1841. ''The History of India'', 2 vols. London: John Murray
vol. 1vol. 2

* Sachau, Eduard C. 1910. ''Alberuni's India — An account of ... India about A.D. 1030'', 2 vols. London: Kegan Paul, Trench Trubner & Co.Ltd
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* Elliot, Henry M. 1867–1877. ''The History of India, as Told by Its Own Historians. The Muhammadan Period'', 8 vols., edited by J. Dowson.
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;British Raj
* Nehru, Jawaharlal. 1946. ''The Discovery of India''.
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* Mill, James. 1817, 1820, 1826. ''The History of British India'', edited by Horace Hayman Wilson (1848, 1858).

Secondary sources

* Balagangadhara, S. N. 2012. '' Reconceptualizing India Studies''. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
* Bryant, Edwin. 2001. ''The Quest for the Origins of Vedic Culture''. Oxford University Press
* Chakrabarti, Dilip K. 1997. ''Colonial Indology''. New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal.
*Durant, W. 2011. ''The Case for India''. Mumbai: Strand Book Stall.
*Inden, R. B. 2010. ''Imagining India''. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.
*Karkare, Neelesh Ishwarchandra. 2014. ''Shreenath Madhavji: Mahayoddha Mahadji Ki Shourya Gatha''.
*Lal, B. B. 1997. ''The earliest civilization of South Asia: Rise, maturity, and decline''. New Delhi: Aryan Books International.
*—— 1998. ''India 1947-1997: New light on the Indus civilization''. New Delhi: Aryan Books International.
*Lal, K. S. 1980. ''History of the Khaljis: A.D. 1290-1320''. New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal.
*Adluri, Vishwa, and Joydeep Bagchee. 2014. ''The Nay Science: A History of German Indology''. New York: Oxford University Press.
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* Guha, Ramachandra. 2007. '' India after Gandhi''.
* Dharampal. 9831995. ''The beautiful tree: Indigenous Indian education in the eighteenth century''. New Delhi: Biblia Impex Private Limited.
*—— 2000. ''Indian science and technology in the eighteenth century: Some contemporary European accounts''. Goa: Other India Press.
* Panikkar, K. M. 1965. ''Asia and Western dominance''. Millswood, AU: Braille Writing Association of South Australia.
* Priolkar, A. K. 1961. "The Goa Inquisition: Being a Quatercentenary Commemoration Study of the Inquisition in India." Bombay University.
* Majumdar, Ramesh C. 1962. ''History of the Freedom Movement in India'', 3 vols. Calcutta: K. L. Mukhopadhyay. .
*—— 1970. ''Historiography in Modern India''. London: Asia Publishing House.
*Majumdar, Ramesh C., Hem C. Raychaudhuri, and Kalikinkar Datta. 9462007. '' An Advanced History of India''. Delhi: Macmillan India.
* Trautmann, Thomas. 1997. ''Aryans and British India''. Berkeley: University of California Press.
* Sen, Amartya. 2005. ''The Argumentative Indian''. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Multivolume works

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

Primary sources

* Sherring, M. A. 1872–81. ''Hindoo Tribes and Castes'', 3 vols.

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)

Secondary sources

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* Malhotra, Rajiv. 2011. '' Breaking India: Western Interventions in Dravidian and Dalit Faultlines''. Amaryllis. .

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 (book), The Man Who Knew Infinity''.
* Karkare, Neelesh Ishwarchandra. ''Biography on Great Warrior Shreenath Mahadji Shinde''.
* Krishnadasa Kaviraja, Kaviraj, Krishnadas. 1582. ''Chaitanya Charitamrita''.
** translated in Jadunath Sarkar, Sarkar, Jadunath, trans. 1922. s:Chaitanya's Life and Teachings, ''Chaitanya's Life and Teachings''.
* Kling, Blair B. 1976. iarchive:partnerinempired0000klin, ''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.
*R. C. Majumdar, Majumdar, R. C. 1967. ''Svami Vivekananda: A Historical Review''. Calcutta: General Printers & Publishers.
*Friedrich Max-Müller, Max Müller, Friedrich. 1916. s:Index:Ramakrishna - His Life and Sayings.djvu, ''Ramakrishna: His Life and Sayings''.
* Mitra, Subal Chandra. 1902. s:Index:Isvar Chandra Vidyasagar, a story of his life and work.djvu, ''Isvar Chandra Vidyasagar, a story of his life and work''.
* Taslima Nasrin, Nasrin, Taslima. 1999. ''Amar Meyebela - My Girlhood''. Calcutta: People's Book House.
* Paul, Samiran Kumar, and Amar Nath Prasad. 2006
''Recritiquing Rabindranath Tagore''

* Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Radhakrishnan, Sarvepalli. 1919. s:Index:The Philosophy of Rabindranath Tagore.djvu, ''The Philosophy of Rabindranath Tagore''.
* Rao, S. R. 2008. ''Reminiscences of an archaeologist''. New Delhi: Aryan Books International.
* Ernest Rhys, Rhys, Ernest P. 1916. s:Index:Rabindranath Tagore - A Biographical Study.djvu, ''Rabindranath Tagore: A Biographical Study''.
* W. Andrew Robinson, Robinson, W. Andrew. 1989. ''Satyajit Ray: The Inner Eye: The Biography of a Master Film-Maker.'
vol 1
iarchive:satyajitrayinner00robi 0, vol. 2.
* Romain Rolland, 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: iarchive:cu31924059290480, 1; 1916: iarchive:rabindranathtago00roybuoft, 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''

* Jadunath Sarkar, Sarkar, Jadunath. 1981. ''History of Aurangzib''. Orient Longman.
* —— 2012. ''Shivaji and His Times''. Orient Longman.
* Sister Nivedita. 1910. s:Index:The Master as I Saw Him.djvu, ''The Master as I Saw Him''
* Clinton B. Seely, Seely, Clinton B. 1990
''A Poet Apart: A literary biography of the Bengali poet Jibanananda Das, (1899-1954)''

* Amiya Prosad Sen, Sen, Amiya Prosad. 2008
''Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay: An Intellectual Biography''

* Subodh Chandra Sengupta, Sengupta, Subodh Chandra. 1977
''Bankimchandra Chatterjee''

* Hugh Toye, Toye, Hugh. 1959. ''The Springing Tiger''.
* Paramahansa Yogananda, 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
* s:The Indian Biographical Dictionary (1915), The Indian Biographical Dictionary (1915) by C. Hayavadana Rao
* s:Index:Dictionary of Indian Biography.djvu, Dictionary of Indian biography (1906) by Charles Edward Buckland
* s:Index:Who's Who in India Supplement 1 (1912).djvu, Who's Who in India Supplement 1 (1912)
* s:Index:Who's Who in India Supplement 2 (1914).djvu, Who's Who in India Supplement 2 (1914)
* s:Index:The Golden Book of India.djvu, 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
* s:Index:The Oriental Biographical Dictionary.djvu, The Oriental Biographical Dictionary (1881) by Thomas William Beale
* ''Reminiscences and Anecdotes of Great Men of India'' by Ram Gopal Sanyal s:Index:Reminiscences and Anecdotes of Great Men of India.djvu, Vol 1 (1894), s:Index:Reminiscences and Anecdotes of Great Men of India Vol 2.djvu, 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: Publications Division (India), Publication Division.
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* ''The Imperial Gazetteer of India''

Travelogues

Early period

*''Indica (Megasthenes), Indica'' by Megasthenes, c. 300 BCE
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*''Great Tang Records on the Western Regions'', by Hiuen Tsang. 646 CE.
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*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

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*Meenakshi Jain, The India They Saw (co-edited with Sandhya Jain, 4 Volumes, Prabhat Prakashan), , , , .

Late modern

*Emily Eden. ''Up the Country''
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* ''Begums Thugs and White Mughals''. Fanny Parkes, ed. William Dalrymple (historian), 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

*Thomas Henry Holland, 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

Flora

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Fauna

*''Lepidoptera Indica''
*''The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma''
*Thomas Bainbrigge Fletcher, Fletcher, Thomas B., and Charles M. Inglis. 1924. ''iarchive:BirdsOfAnIndianGarden, Birds of an Indian Garden.'' Calcutta & Simla: Thacker, Spink & Co.
*George Frederick Leycester Marshall, Marshall, George F. L. and Lionel de Nicéville. ''Butterflies of India, Burmah and Ceylon''.

Princely states

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People, politics and customs

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*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.
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* 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

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*Ananda Coomaraswamy, Coomaraswamy, Ananda Kentish. 1909. iarchive:indiancraftsman00coomuoft, ''The Indian Craftsman''. London: Probsthain.
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*Aurobindo Ghose, Ghose, Aurobindo. 1998. ''The Foundations of Indian Culture''. Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram.
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*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.
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*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, Being Different: An Indian Challenge to Western Universalism''. HarperCollins India. .
*—— 2016. ''The Battle for Sanskrit, Battle for Sanskrit''. Harper Collins India. .
*W. Andrew Robinson, Robinson, W. Andrew. 1989. ''Satyajit Ray: The Inner Eye: The Biography of a Master Film-Maker.'
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*Sethna, K. D. (1989). ''Ancient India in a New Light''. New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan.
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Performance art

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* Arun Shourie, Shourie, Arun. 1979. ''Hinduism, Essence and Consequence: A Study of the Upanishads, the Gita, and the Brahma-Sutras''. Sahibabad, District. Ghaziabad: Vikas.
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Religion, folk tales, and spiritual heritage

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* 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.
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* 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.
* David Frawley, 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.
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*Klostermaier, K. K. 2007. ''A Survey of Hinduism''. Albany: State University of New York Press.
* Malhotra, Rajiv. 2014. ''Indra's Net (book), Indra's Net: Defending Hinduism's Philosophical Unity''. HarperCollins India. .
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*Narain, H. 1983. ''Facets of Indian Religio-Philosophic Identity''. Delhi u.a: Bharatiya Vidya Prakashan.
*Swami Prabhavananda, Prabhavananda, Swami. 1962. ''The Spiritual Heritage of India''.
* Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Radhakrishnan, Sarvepalli. 1953. ''The Principal Upanishads (book), 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.
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* Paramahansa Yogananda, Yogananda, Paramahansa. 1946. ''Autobiography of a Yogi''.
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Fiction

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

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

External links

The Indian City, 1700 to the Present: A Select Research Bibliography
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