by John Keay
Keay, John, India Discovered, Windward, London, 1984, repr. HarperCollins, London, 1988
Kulke, H. and Rothermund, D., A History of India, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1990
Kumar, Dharma (ed.), The Cambridge Economic History of India, vol.2, C1757–C1970, CUP, Cambridge, 1963
Majumdar, R.C. et al, The History and Culture of the Indian People (HCIP), 11 vols, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Bombay, 1950–
Majumdar, R.C., Raychaudhuri, H.C., Datta, K.K. (eds), An Advanced History of India, Macmillan, London, 1961
Michel, George, The Penguin Guide to the Monuments of India, vol.1, Buddhist, Jain, Hindu, Penguin, London, 1989
Mill, James, The History of British India, London, 1826
Panikkar, K.M., Survey of Indian History, London, 1960
Raychaudhuri, Tapan and Habib, Irfan (eds), The Cambridge Economic History of India, vol.1, C1200–1750, CUP, Cambridge, 1982
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S[h]astri, K.A. Nilakant[h]a, A History of South India from Prehistoric Times to the Fall of Vijayanagar, 1955, repr. OUP, Delhi, 1975
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Smith, V.A., The Early History of India from 600BC to the Muhammadan Conquest, OUP, Oxford, 1924
Spear, Percival, A History of India (vol.2), Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1965
Stein, Burton, A History of India, Blackwell, Oxford, 1998
Thapar, Romila, A History of India (vol.1), Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1966
Tod, James, Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, London, 1960
Watson, Francis, A Concise History of India, Thames & Hudson, London, 1979
Williams, L.F. Rushbrook (ed.), A Handbook for Travellers in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, 22nd edn, John Murray, London, 1975
Wolpert, Stanley, A New History of India, OUP, New York, 1982
Yule, H. and Burnell, A.C., Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, 1886, repr. Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1985
CHAPTERS 1–4
Prehistory
Allchin, B. and F.R., The Birth of Indian Civilisation: India and Pakistan Before 500 BC, Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1968
Allchin, B. and F.R., The Rise of Civilisation in India and Pakistan, Cambridge, 1982
Basham, A.L., History and Doctrine of the Ajivikas: A Vanished Indian Religion, Luzac, London, 1951
Bechert, Heinz (ed.), When did the Buddha Live?: The Controversy of the Dating of the Historical Buddha, Sri Satguru Publications, Delhi, 1994
Dani, A.H. (ed.), Indus Civilisation: New Perspectives, Islamabad, 1984
Deshpande, M.M. and Hook, P.E. (eds), Aryan and Non-Aryan in India, University of Michigan, 1979
Drekmeier, C., Kingship and Community in Early India, Stanford, 1962
Dutt, N., Early Buddhist Monasticism, Calcutta, 1973
Edwardes, M., In the Blowing out of a Flame: The World of the Buddha and the World of Man, George Allen & Unwin, London, 1976
Fick, R., Social Organisation of North Eastern India in the Buddha’s Time, Calcutta, 1920
Ghosh, A., The City in Early Historical India, Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Simla, 1973
Ghosh, B.K., in HCIP, vol.1, The Vedic Age, Allen & Unwin, London, 1951
Kautilya (ed. Rangarajan, L.N.), The Arthasastra, Penguin India, Delhi, 1992
Kosambi, D.D., The Culture and Civilisation of Ancient India in Historical Outline, 1950, repr. Vikas, New Delhi, 1996
Kosambi, D.D., An Introduction to the Study of Indian History, 1956, repr. Popular Prakarshan, Bombay, 1975
Lal, B.B. and Gupta, S.P. (eds), Frontiers of the Indus Civilisation, Books & Books, Delhi, 1984
Lane Fox, R., Alexander the Great, Allen Lane, London, 1973
McCrindle, J.W., The Invasion of India by Alexander the Great as Described by Arrian etc., Constable, London, 1893
Majumdar, R.C., Ancient India, repr. Motilal Banarsidass, Delhi, 1994
Marshall, J., Mohenjo-daro and the Indus Civilisation, Probsthain, London, 1931
Marshall, J., Taxila, CUP, Cambridge, 1951
Meyer, J.T., Sexual Life in Ancient India, London, 1952
Mookerji, R.K., in HCIP, vol.2, The Age of Imperial Unity, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Bombay, 1951
Mukerjee, S.N. (ed.), India: History and Thought, Subarnarekha, Calcutta, 1982
Piggott, S., Prehistoric India, Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1962
Possehl, G.L. (ed.), Ancient Cities of the Indus, Vikas, New Delhi, 1979
Possehl, G.L. (ed.), Harappan Civilisation: A Contemporary Perspective, New Delhi, 1982
Pusalker, A.D., in HCIP, vol.1, The Vedic Age, George Allen & Unwin, London, 1951
Ratnagar, Shireen, Encounters: The Westerly Trade of the Harappan Civilisation, OUP, Delhi, 1981
Ratnagar, Shireen, Enquiries into the Political Organisation of Harappan Society, Ravish, Pune, 1991
Sankalia, H.D., The Prehistory and Protohistory of India and Pakistan, Bombay, 1963
Sharma, J.P., The Republics in Ancient India, E.J. Brill, Leiden, 1968
Spellman, J.W., Political Theory of Ancient India, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1964
Thapar, R., ‘Asokan India and the Gupta Age’, in A Cultural History of India (ed. Basham, A.L.), OUP, Oxford, 1975
Thapar, R., ‘The Historian and the Epic’, in Annals of the Bhandarka Oriental Research Institute, LX, 1979
Thapar, R., ‘The Ramayana: Theme and Variations’, in Mukherjee, S.N., India: History and Thought, Calcutta, 1982
Thapar, R., From Lineage to State, OUP, Bombay, 1984
Thapar, R., Cultural Transaction and Early India, Delhi, 1987
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Thapar, R., Ancient Indian Social History: Some Interpretations, repr. Sangam, London, 1996
Varma, V.P., Early Buddhism and its Origins, Munshiram Manoharlal, New Delhi, 1972
Wagle, K.N., Society in the Time of the Buddha, Bombay, 1966
Wheeler, R.E. Mortimer, Early India and Pakistan, London, 1959
Wheeler, R.E. Mortimer, Civilisation of the Indus Valley and Beyond, Thames & Hudson, London, 1966
CHAPTERS 5–8
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Ahir, D.C., Ashoka the Great, BR Publishing, Delhi, 1995
Altekar, A.S., in The Gupta-Vakataka Age (ed. Majumdar, R.C. and Altekar, A.S.), Motilal Banarsidass, Varanasi, Benares, 1946
Bagchi, P.C., India and China, 1944, repr. Hindi Kitabs, Bombay, 1950
Bana (trans. Cowell, E.R. and Thomas, S.W.), Harsa-Carita, Royal Asiatic Society, London, 1897
Burrow, T., The Sanskrit Language, London, 1965
Chattopadhyaya, B.D. (ed.), Essays in Ancient Indian Economic History, Munshiram Manoharlal, New Delhi, 1987
Chattopadhyaya, B.D., Aspects of Rural Settlements and Rural Society in Early Medieval India, Calcutta, 1990
Coedes, G. (trans. Wright, H.M.), The Making of South East Asia, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1966
Coedes, G. (trans. Cowing, S.B.), The Indianised States of South-East Asia, East-West Center Press, Honolulu, 1968
Dani, A.H., Human Records on the Karakoram Highway, Islamabad, 1983
Devahuti, R., Harsha: A Political Study, OUP, Delhi, 1983
Dumarcay, Jacques (trans. Smithies, M.), The Temples of Java, OUP, Singapore, 1986
Fa Hian, in Hiuen Tsang (trans. Beal, S.), Si-Yu-Ki, Buddhist Records of the Western World, vol.1, Trubner, London, 1884
Fleet, J.F., Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum, vol.3, Inscriptions of the Early Gupta Kings and their Successors, Government of India, Calcutta, 1888
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Kautilya (ed. Rangarajan, L.N.), The Arthasastra, Penguin India, Delhi, 1992
Keith, A.B., History of Sanskrit Literature, OUP, Oxford, 1920
Kosambi, D.D., An Introduction to the Study of Indian History, 1956, repr. Popular Prakarshan, Bombay, 1975
Kosambi, D.D., The Culture and Civilisation of Ancient India in Historical Outline, 1950, repr. Vikas, New Delhi, 1996
McCrindle, J.W., Ancient India as Described by Megasthenes and Arrian, Calcutta, 1877
Majumdar, R.C., Ancient Indian Colonies in the Far East, Lahore, Dacca, Madras, 1927–44
Majumdar, R.C., ‘The Rise of the Guptas’, in HCIP, vol.3, The Classical Age, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Bombay, 1954
Mookerji, R.K., The Gupta Empire, Hind Kitabs, Bombay, 1947
Mookerji, R.K., ‘Ashoka the Great’, in HCIP, vol.2, The Age of Imperial Unity, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Bombay, 1951
Morton-Smith, R., Dates and Dynasties in Earliest India, Delhi, 1975
Narain, A.K., The Indo-Greeks, OUP, Oxford, 1957
Ray, H.P., Monastery and Guild: Commerce Under the Satavahana, OUP, Delhi, 1986
Raychaudhuri, H.C., The Political History of Ancient India, Calcutta, 1953
Sarkar, H.B., Cultural Relations Between India and South East Asian Countries, Indian Council for Cultural Relations and Motilal Banarsidass, New Delhi, 1985
Satianathaier, R., ‘Dynasties of South India’, in HCIP, vol.4, The Classical Age, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Bombay, 1954
Sharma, R.S., Indian Feudalism, Calcutta, 1965
S[h]astri, K.A. Nilakantha (ed.), A Comprehensive History of India, vol.2, The Mauryas and the Satavahanas, Orient Longmans, Calcutta, 1957
S[h]astri, K.A. Nilakantha, A History of South India from Prehistoric Times to the Fall of Vijayanagar, 1955, repr. OUP, Oxford, 1975
Sircar, D.C., Successors of the Satavahanas, University of Calcutta, 1939
Smithies, Michael, Yogyakarta, OUP, Singapore, 1986
Stein, B. (ed.), Essays on South India, Asian Studies Program, University of Hawaii, 1975
Subramaniam, N., Sangam Polity, Asia Publishing, London, 1966
Thapar, R., Ashoka and the Decline of the Mauryas, OUP, Oxford, 1961
Thapar, R., ‘Asokan India and the Gupta Age’, in A Cultural History of India (ed. Basham, A.L.), OUP, Oxford, 1975
Trautmann, T.R., Kautilya and the Arthasastra, E.J. Brill, Leiden, 1971
Trautmann, T.R., Kinship and History in South Asia, Michigan, 1974
Warmington, E.H., The Commerce Between the Roman Empire and India, CUP, 1928, repr. Curzon Press, London, 1974
Wheeler, R.E. Mortimer, Rome Beyond the Imperial Frontiers, G. Bell, London, 1954
Williams, J.G., The Art of Gupta India, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1983
Yazdani, G. (ed.), The Early History of the Deccan, 2 vols, OUP, London, 1960
CHAPTERS 9–12
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Abd-er-Razzak, ‘Narrative of the Journey of Abd-er-Razzak’, in India in the Fifteenth Century (ed. Major, R.H.), Hackluyt Society, London, 1857
Abraham, Meera, Two Medieval Merchant Guilds of South India, Munshiram Manoharlal, New Delhi, 1988
Aiyangar, S. Krishnaswami, South India and her Muhammadan Invaders, OUP, Madras, 1921
Al-Biladuri, in HOIBIOH, vol.1, Trubner, London, 1867
Altekar, A.S., ‘The Rashtrakutas’, in The Early History of the Deccan (ed. Yazdani, G.), OUP, London, 1960
Al-Utbi, Shahr-i Tarikhi Yamini, in HOIBIOH, vol.2, Trubner, London, 1867
Bosworth, C.E., The Ghaznavids, 2nd edn, Librairie du Liban, Beirut, 1993
Chach-nama or Tarikh-i Hind wa Sind, in HOIBIOH, vol.1, Trubner, London, 1867
Champakalakshmi, R., ‘Urbanisation in Medieval Tamil Nadu’, in Situating Indian History (eds Bhattarcharya, S. and Thapar, R.), OUP, Delhi, 1986
Champakalakshmi, R., ‘Urbanisation in South India: The Role of Ideology and Polity’, in Indian History Congress, Proceedings of 47th Session, Srinagar, 1986
Champakalakshmi, R., ‘State and Economy: South India C400–1300’, in Recent Perspectives of Early Indian History (ed. Thapar, R.), Popular Prakarshan, Bombay, 1995
Coedes, G. (trans. Cowing, S.B.), The Indianised States of South East Asia, East – West Center Press, Honolulu, 1968
Derrett, J.D.M., The Hoysalas, OUP, London, 1957
Digby, S., in The Cambridge Economic History of India, vol.1, C1200–1750 (eds Raychaudhuri, T. and Habib, I.), CUP, Cambridge, 1982
Ferishta (trans. Dow, A.), The History of Hindoostan, Walker, J. et al, London, 1812
Ferishta (trans. Briggs, J.), History of the Rise of Mohammedan Power in India, Longman, London, 1829
Ganguly, D.C., ‘Ghaznavid Invasion’, in HCIP, vol.5, The Struggle for Empire, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Bombay, 1957
Habib, Irfan, in The Cambridge Economic History of India, vol.1, C1200–1750 (eds Raychaudhuri, T. and Habib, I.), CUP, Cambridge, 1982
Hall, K.R., Trade and Statecraft in the Age of the Colas, Abhinav, New Delhi, 1980
H[i]uen Tsang (trans. Beal, S.), Si-Yu-Ki, Buddhist Records of the Western World, 2 vols, Trubner, London, 1884
Husain, A.H., The Rise and Fall of Muhammad bin Tughluq, Luzac, London, 1938
Ibn Asir, Kamilu-t Tawarikh, in HOIBIOH, vol.2, Trubner, 1867
Ibn Batuta (Mohamed ibn ’Abd Allah) (trans. Gibb, H.A.R.), Travels in Africa and Asia, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1929
Imam, Abu, ‘Bengal in History’, in India: History and Thought (ed. Mukherjee, S.N.), Subaranarekha, Calcutta, 1984
Inden, Ronald, Imagining India, Blackwell, Oxford, 1990
Karashima, Noboru, South Indian History and Society: Studies from Inscriptions AD 850–1800, OUP, Delhi, 1984
Keith, A.B., History of Sanskrit Literature, OUP, Oxford, 1920
Lal, K.S., History of the Khaljis, Asia Publishing, London, 1967
Majumdar, R.C. et al, An Advanced History of India, Macmillan, London, 1946
Majumdar, R.C., ‘The Palas’, in HCIP, vol.4, The Imperial Age of Kanauj, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Bombay, 1957
Majumdar, R.C., ‘Muhammad bin Tughluq’, in HCIP, vol.6, The Delhi Sultanate, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Bombay, 1960
Majumdar, R.C., Ancient India, repr. Motilal Banarsidass, Delhi, 1994
Minhaju-s Siraj, Tabakat-i Nasiri, in HOIBIOH, vol.2, Trubner, London, 1867
Narayanan, M.G.S., and Veluthat Kesavan, ‘Bhakti Movement in South India’, in Indian Movements: Some Aspects of Dissent, Protest and Reform (ed. Malik, S.), Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Simla, 1976
Nigam, S.B.P., The Nobility Under the Sultans, Munshiram Manoharlal, New Delhi, 1968
Nikitin, Athanasius, ‘Travels of Athanasius Nikitin’, in India in the Fifteenth Century (ed. Major, R.H.), Hackluyt Society, London, 1857
Nizami, Khaliq Ahmed, Some Aspects of Religion and Politics in India During the Thirteenth Century, Asia Publishing, New Delhi, 1961
Polo, Marco (trans. and ed. Yule, H.), The Book of Ser Marco Polo, John Murray, London, 1871
Punja, Shobita, Divine Ecstasy: The Story of Khajuraho, Viking, New Delhi, 1992
Puri, B.N., The History of the Gurjara-Pratiharas, Munshiram Manoharlal, New Delhi, 1986
Ray, H.P., The Dynastic History of Northern India, 2 vols, Calcutta University Press, Calcutta, 1931
Sewell, R., A Forgotten Empire (Vijayanagar), Swan Sonnenschein, London, 1900, repr. Asia Education Services, New Delhi, 1980
Shams-i Siraj Afif, Tarikh-i Firoz Shahi, in HOIBIOH, vol.3, Trubner, London, 1871
Sharma, Dasharata, ‘The Paramaras of Malwa’, in Indian History Congress, A Comprehensive History of India, vol.5 (ed. Sharma, R.S.), People’s Publishing House, New Delhi,
1992
Sharma, R.S., Indian Feudalism, Calcutta, 1965
S[h]astri, K.A. Nilakantha, The Colas, 2nd edn, University of Madras, Madras, 1955
S[h]astri, K.A. Nilakantha, A History of South India from Prehistoric Times to the Fall of Vijayanagar, 1955, repr. OUP, Oxford, 1975
Sherwani, H.K., ‘The Bahmani Kingdom’, in Indian History Congress, A Comprehensive History of India (ed. Sharma, R.S.), vol.5, pt 2, People’s Publishing House, New Delhi, 1992
Spencer, G.W., The Politics of Expansion: The Chola Conquest of Sri Lanka and Sri Vijaya, New Era, Madras, 1983
Stein, B., Peasant, State and Society in Medieval South India, New Delhi, 1980
Stein, B., Vijayanagara, in NCHI, pt 2, vol.1, Cambridge, 1994
Sulieman, in HOIBIOH, vol.1, Trubner, London, 1867
Venkataramanyya, N., The Early Muslim Expansion in South India, University of Madras, Madras, 1942
Verma, H.C., ‘The Ghaznavid Invasions, Part 2’, in Indian History Congress, A Comprehensive History of India, vol.4, pt 1 (ed. Sharma, R.S.), People’s Publishing House, New Delhi, 1992
Yazdani, G. (ed.), The Early History of the Deccan, 2 vols, OUP, London, 1960
Ziau-d Din Barani, Tarikh-i-Feroz Shahi, in HOIBIOH, vol.3, Trubner, London, 1871
CHAPTERS 13–15
Mughal Rule
Abu’l-Fazl (trans. Beveridge, A.S.), Akbar-nama, Baptist Mission Press, Calcutta, 1907
Alam, Muzaffar, The Crisis of Empire in Mughal North India: Awadh and the Punjab 1707–48, OUP, Delhi, 1997
Asher, Catherine B., The Architecture of Mughal India, in NCHI, pt 1, vol.4, Cambridge, 1992
Babur, Tuzak-i Baburi (Babur-nama), in HOIBIOH, vol.4, Trubner, London, 1872
Babur (trans. Beveridge, A.S.), Babur-nama, Luzac, London, 1921
Bayly, C.A., Indian Society and the Making of the British Empire, in NCHI, pt 2, vol.1, Cambridge, 1987
Bernier, François (trans. Constable, A.), Travels in the Mogol Empire AD 1656–68, OUP, London, 1914
Duff, J.C. Grant, A History of the Mahrattas, 3 vols, 1826, repr. OUP, London, 1921
Eraly, A., The Great Mughals, Viking, New Delhi, 1997
Ferishta (trans. Dow, A.), The History of Hindoostan, Walker, J. et al, London, 1812