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

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.^[1]
• Qazvini, Muhammad Amin. 1646. Padshah Nama.

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

• Mookerji, Radhakumud (1912). Indian Shipping: A history of the sea-borne trade and maritime activity of the Indians from the earliest times. Longmans, Green and Co., Bombay.
• F. E. Pargiter (1922). Ancient Indian Historical Tradition. Oxford University Press, H. Milford.
• Bannerjee, Dr. Gauranganath (1921). India as Known to the Ancient World. Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, London.
• 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. ISBN 978-0199931361
• Richards, John F. (1995). The Mughal Empire.
• Guha, Ramachandra. 2007. India after Gandhi.
• Dharampal. [1983] 1995. 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. ISBN 81-7102-099-2.
• —— 1970. Historiography in Modern India. London: Asia Publishing House.
• Majumdar, Ramesh C., Hem C. Raychaudhuri, and Kalikinkar Datta. [1946] 2007. 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.
• V. S. Bhatnagar (1991). "Foreword". Kānhaḍade Prabandha, India's Greatest Patriotic Saga of Medieval Times: Padmanābha's Epic Account of Kānhaḍade. Aditya Prakashan. ISBN 978-81-85179-54-4.
• Elphinstone, Mountstuart. 1841. The History of India, 2 vols. London: John Murray. vol. 1, vol. 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. vol. 1, vol. 2.
• Major, Richard Henry, ed. (1857). India in the Fifteenth Century: Being a collection of narratives of voyages to India, in the century . London: Hakluyt Society.
• Elliot, Henry M. 1867–1877. The History of India, as Told by Its Own Historians. The Muhammadan Period, 8 vols., edited by J. Dowson.
• Lethbridge, Roper, Sir (1893). The History of India. London: Macmillan.((cite book)): CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• Feudge, Fannie Roper (1903). India; The Gorgeous East with Richest Hand Showers on her Kings Barbaric Pearl and Gold. The Saalfield Publishing Company, Ohio.
• De La Fosse, C. F. (1918). History of India (Revised ed.). London: Macmillan & Co.
• Kulke, Hermann; Rothermund, Dietmar (1991). A History of India. Routledge. ISBN 9781138961159.

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.
• Dutt, Romesh Chunder (1906). Williams Jackson, A. V. (ed.). History of India: From the Earliest times to the Sixth century B.C . Vol. 1. London: Grolier Society.
• Chattopadhyaya, Debbi P., ed. 2009. Project of History of Indian Science, Philosophy and culture, 20 vols. Centre for Studies in Civilizations.
• Dodwell, H. H. (1929). The Cambridge History of India: British India, 1497-1858 (Vol. 5). Cambridge University Press.
• —— (1932). The Cambridge History of India: The Indian Empire, 1858-1918 (Vol. 6). Cambridge University Press.
• Haig, Wolseley, Sir (1928). The Cambridge History of India: Turks and Afghans (Vol. 3). Cambridge University Press.((cite book)): CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• 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.
• Rapson, Edward James (1922). The Cambridge History of India: Ancient India (Vol. 1). Cambridge University Press.

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

• Bayly, Susan (2001). Caste, Society and Politics in India from the Eighteenth Century to the Modern Age. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-79842-6.
• Dhar, Triloki Nath (2006). Kashmiri Pandit Community: A Profile. Mittal Publications. ISBN 978-81-8324-177-9.
• Jeffrey, Robin (1994) [1976]. The Decline of Nair Dominance: Society and Politics in Travancore 1847-1908. Sussex University Press. ISBN 0-85621-054-4.
• Malhotra, Rajiv. 2011. Breaking India: Western Interventions in Dravidian and Dalit Faultlines. Amaryllis. ISBN 978-8-191-06737-8.

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.^[2]
• 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.
• Henry Scholberg (1970). The District Gazetteers of British India: A Bibliography. Zug, Switzerland: Inter Documentation Company. ISBN 9780800212650.
• Tej Ram Sharma (1978). Personal and geographical names in the Gupta inscriptions. Concept Publishing Co., Delhi.
• The Imperial Gazetteer of India

Travelogues

Early period

• Indica by Megasthenes, c. 300 BCE
• Fa, Hien (1877). "Record of the Buddhistic Kingdoms" by Fa Hien (414 AD). Herbert A. Giles (trans.). London: Trubner & Co., 414 CE
• Mundy, Peter (31 January 2024). The Travels of Peter Mundy in Europe and Asia, 1608-1667. Cambridge [Eng] Printed for the Hakluyt Society. ISBN 978-0-8115-0338-9.
• Faxian; tr. by James Legge (1886). A Record of Buddhistic kingdoms; being an account by the Chinese monk FA-HIEN of his travels in India and Ceylon, A.D. 399-414, in search of the Buddhist books of discipline. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
• Great Tang Records on the Western Regions, by Hiuen Tsang. 646 CE.
• Watters, Thomas (1904). On Yuan Chwang's Travels in India, 629-645 A.D. London: Royal Asiatic Society.
• Sachau, Edward C. (1910). Alberuni's India — An account of ... India about A.D. 1030 (Vol. 1). London: Kegan Paul, Trench Trübner & Co.Ltd.
• Sachau, Edward C. (1910). Alberuni's India — An account of ... India about A.D. 1030 (Vol 2.). London: Kegan Paul, Trench Trübner & Co. Ltd.
• 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

• Tavernier, Jean Baptiste; Ball, Valentine (tr. from the Orig French Ed. 1676) (1899). Travels in India (Vol. 1). London: Macmillan & Co.((cite book)): CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
• Tavernier, Jean Baptiste; Ball, Valentine (tr. from the Orig French Ed. 1676) (1899). Travels in India (Vol. 2). London: Macmillan & Co.((cite book)): CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
• Herbert, William; William Nichelson; Samuel Dunn (1791). A New Directory for the East-Indies. London: Gilbert & Wright.
• Fraser, James Baillie (1820). Journal of a Tour through Part of the snowy range of the Himala Mountains, and to the sources of the rivers Jumna and Ganges. London: Rodwell and Martin.
• Bernier, Francois (1891). Travels in the Mogul Empire, A.D. 1656-1668. London: Archibald Constable.
• 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
• Karageorgevitch, Prince Bojidar (1899). Enchanted India. New York: Harper & Brothers.
• 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

• 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

• Nicol Alexander Dalzell; Alexander Gibson (1861). The Bombay Flora: Or, Short Descriptions of All the Indigenous Plants Hitherto Discovered in Or Near the Bombay Presidency : Together with a Supplement of Introduced and Naturalised Species. Education Society's Press.

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.

Princely states

• Hope, John (1863). The House of Scindia — A Sketch by John Hope. Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green, London.
• Menon, P. Shungoonny (1879). A History of Travancore from the Earliest Times. Higginbotham & Co., Madras.
• Prinsep, A.R.A., Val C. (1879). Imperial India — An artist's journals:Illustrated by numerous sketches taken at the courts of the principal chiefs in India. Chapman and Hall, London.
• Ramusack, Barbara N. (2004). The Indian Princes and Their States.
• Supplement to Who's Who in India — Containing lives and photographs of the recipients of honours on 12th December 1911. Newul Kishore Press, Lucknow. 1912.

People, politics and customs

• Bayly, Susan (2001). Caste, Society and Politics in India from the Eighteenth Century to the Modern Age. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-79842-6.
• Broughton, Thomas Duer (1812). Letters written in a Mahratta camp during the year 1809, descriptive of the character, manners, domestic habits, and religious ceremonies, of the Mahrattas. Archibald Constable & Co., London.
• Buyers, Rev. William (1848). Recollections of Northern India — With observations on the origin, customs, and moral sentiments of the Hindoos, and remarks on the country and principal places on the Ganges. John Snow, Paternoster Row, London.
• Karaka, Dosabhai Framjee (1884). History of the Parsis — Including their manners, customs, religion and present position. (Vol. 1). Macmillan & Co., London.
• Karaka, Dosabhai Framjee (1884). History of the Parsis — Including their manners, customs, religion and present position. (Vol. 2). Macmillan & Co., London.
• 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.
• Dass, Baboo Ishuree (1860). Domestic manners and customs of the Hindoos of northern India, or, more strictly speaking, of the north west provinces of India. Medical Hall Press, Benares.
• J.Forbes Watson (1866). The Textile Manufactures and the Costumes of the People of India. India Office by George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, London.
• Illustrations of the Textile Manufactures of India. Victoria & Albert Museum, London. 1881.
• Menpes, Mortimer (1910). The People of India (Illustrated). Adam & Charles Black, London.
• Manmatha Nath Dutt, ed. (1896). Kamandakiya Nitisara: The Elements of Polity. H.C.Dass, Calcutta.
• 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

• Acharya, Prasanna Kumar (946). An Encyclopaedia of Hindu Architecture. Oxford University Press.
• Blacker, J. F. (1922). The ABC of Indian Art. Stanley Paul & Co., London.
• Coomaraswamy, Ananda Kentish. 1909. The Indian Craftsman. London: Probsthain.
• —— (1914). Viśvakarmā; examples of Indian architecture, sculpture, painting, handicraft. London.((cite book)): CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Ghose, Aurobindo. 1998. The Foundations of Indian Culture. Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram.
• Gibson, Agnes C.; Jas. Burgess (1901). Buddhist Art in India. Bernard Quaritch, London.
• 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.
• Havell, E. B. (1908). Indian sculpture and painting. John Murray, London.
• —— (1913). Indian Architecture, its psychology, structure, and history from the first Muhammadan invasion to the present day. London: John Murray.
• —— (1920). A Handbook of Indian Art. London: John Murray.
• 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.^[3]
• —— 2016. Battle for Sanskrit. Harper Collins India. ISBN 978-93-5177-538-6.^[4]
• 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.
• Sidhanta, N. K. (1929). The Heroic Age of India: A Comparative Study. Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Company, London.
• Smith, Vincent A. (1930). A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
• Tagore, Abanindranath (1914). Some Notes on Indian Artistic Anatomy. Indian Society of Oriental Art, Calcutta.
• Report of the Indian Cinematograph Committee 1927-1928. Madras: Superintendent, The Government Press, Madras. 1928.

Performance art

• Day, Charles Russel (1891). The Music and Musical Instruments of southern India and the Deccan. William Gibb (lllus.). Novello, Ewer & Co., London.
• Dhanamjaya (1912). The Dasarupa or Treatise on Ten Forms of Drama — A Treatise on Hindu Dramaturgy. George C. O. Haas (trans.). New York: Columbia University.
• Popley, Herbert Arthur (1921). The Music of India. Calcutta: Association Press.
• Shourie, Arun. 1979. Hinduism, Essence and Consequence: A Study of the Upanishads, the Gita, and the Brahma-Sutras. Sahibabad, District. Ghaziabad: Vikas.
• Strangways, A. H. Fox (1914). The Music of Hindostan. London: Oxford University Press.

Religion, folk tales, and spiritual heritage

• Alexander, Donald Mackenzie (1913). Indian myth and legend. Gresham, London.
• Coomaraswamy, Ananda Kentish (1918). The Dance of Siva — fourteen Indian essays. The Sunwise Turn Inc., New York.
• 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.
• Ghosha, Pratapchandra, ed. (1871). Durga Puja — With Notes and Illustrations. Varanasi: The Hindu Patriot Press.
• 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.^[5]
• Nandikeśvara (1917). The Mirror of Gesture — Being the Abhinaya Darpana of Nandikeśvara. Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy; Gopala Kristnayya Duggirala (trans.). Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass.
• 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.
• Sadhana Naithani (21 May 2006). In Quest of Indian Folktales: Pandit Ram Gharib Chaube and William Crooke. Indiana University Press. ISBN 0-253-11202-8.
• Yogananda, Paramahansa. 1946. Autobiography of a Yogi.
• Sanatana Dharma: an advanced text book of Hindu religion and Ethics. Central Hindu College, Benaras. 1904.

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.