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Here are some books that i have found useful. Some I own and some i have had a chance to glance through. But a list such as this is hard to come by even in India. The original file is available in [url="http://f6.grp.yahoofs.com/v1/UAlnP0XOGFkroVbQADHMTIvbPZ2tK5lLR88qlUyu9sTvwClKc6UrUKMLRmx7nf2VD9yOJAl75YsjBfuHN2rkquaE8BY/Indian%20History%20Books"]Bharatnirbhaya [/url]



This file will be continuously updated as new references are found.

The goal is to make this a resource for those who are interested(laymen as well

as scholars) in this subject.



References on Indian History;



The History and Culture of the Indian People(HCIP) by R.C. Majumdar is a

comprehensive multivolume series that covers the entire history pretty well too

but then he is also called "saffron" though what he

wrote is the same as written by the Muslim historians



K.A. Nilakanta Sastri et al (eds.)A comprehensive History of India , Calcutta, 1957



K.A. Nilakanta Sastri, A Historyof South India from PreHistoric Times to the fall of Vijayanagara, Madras , 1955



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A Brief Bibliography of Military History (University of Illinois) Contains a decent collection of titles on Indian History from Ancient to Post Independence



The Sarasvati Sindhu Vedic Period



THE RIGVEDA

A Historical Analysis

SHRIKANT G. TALAGERI

Aditya Prakashan, New Delhi,2000



RIG VEDA AND THE HISTORY OF INDIA (Rig Veda Bharata Itihaasa)

By David Frawley (Vamadeva Shastri)

Aditya Prakashan, 2001, New Delhi, 550 Rupies, Hardback 363 pages,

ISBN 81-7742-039-9.We have a few copies of the book available for sale in USA at the price of $15.00, which includes shipping. Send payment to:

American Institute of Vedic Studies

PO Box 8357, Santa Fe NM 87504-8357

www.vedanet.com, vedanet@a...





Vedic Aryans and the Origins of Civilization

Navratna S. Rajaram & David Frawley

(with a Foreword by Klaus K. Klostermaier)

New Delhi,Voice Of India, 2001, 3rd Edition



The Problem of Aryan Origins, from an Indian Point of View, KD Sethna, Aditya Prakashan, 1980



VEDIC SARASWATI

Evolutionary History of a Lost River in North Western India (Memoir 42)

Edited by B. P. Radhakrishna and S. S. Merh

Geological Society of India, P.B. No. 1922, Govipuram, Bangalore-560019

Price Rs. 500(PB)

Reviewed by K. V. RAMAN







Classical Period



Medieval (Muslim) Period



History of the Rise and fall of the Mohamedan Power in India by Mahomed

Kasim Ferishta, translated by John Briggs



Travels of Ibn Batuta -- translated by H A R Gibb gives first hand account

of the Muslim rulers of INdia as observed by a Muslim traveller -- he can

hardly be called "saffron"



History of India as told by its own historians by Elliot and Dawson



Jadunath Sarkar is a well respected historian and his books on Aurangzeb

and other Muslim rulers are also good source. His book on Aurangzeb is not

easily available since reprint rights are not granted. Some libraries might

have old prints. It is worth reading though. Sarkar does have his bias

against the Marathas, for whatever reason.





Legacy of Muslim Rule in India

K.S. Lal

New Delhi, Aditya Prakashan, 1992

406 pgs, ISBN 81 85179 03 04



{Other books by K.S. Lal: History of the Khaljis (1950, 1967, 1980);

Twilight of the Sultanate (1963, 1980);

Studies in Medieval Indian History (1966);

Studies in Asian History (edited - 1969);

Growth of Muslim Population in Medieval India (1973);

Early Muslims in India (1984);

The Mughal Harem (1988);

Indian Muslims: Who Are They? (1990);

Muslim Slave System in Medieval India (1994);

Growth of Scheduled Tribes and Castes in Medieval India, Aditya Prakashan (1995);

Theory and practice of the Muslim state in India,(1999) }



The following is not a book on Indian History but describes the concept of Jihad



Jihad in the West : Muslim Conquests from the 7th to the 21st

Centuries by Paul Fregosi, Hardcover - 442 pages (October 1998)

Prometheus Books; ISBN: 1573922471 ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.51 x

9.34 x 6.36

Amazon price is $23.80





Some British writers of Indian History from whom we have learnt Indian History



Major General John Malcolm - A Memoir of the Central India (1824)

Captain Grant Duff - History of the Marathas (1826)

Gen. John Briggs - History of the Rise of Mohammedan Power in India (1829)(translation of Tarikh i Farishta by Farishta)

Lt.Colonel James Todd - Anals and Antiquities of Rajasthan (1829-32)

M. Elphinstone (Resident at Peshwa Court, later Governor of Bombay), History of India (1841)

Joseph Cunningham (brother of Gen.A.Cunningham) History of Sikhs (1849)

Lt. R.F.Burton - History of Sindh (1851)





British colonial period



Peter Hopkirk "The Great game , The struggle for empire in Central Asia",Kodansha International, first published 1990



"The British Conquest and Dominion of India" by Sir Penderel Moon. Published in two volumes by India Research Press, 1999.

Pages 1264. Price Rs 1800.



Independence Movement and Post Independence Period



RC Majumdar, ‘History of the freedom movement in India’,1962, 2nd revised edition, Firma KL Mukhopadhyay, Calcutta, 1971



V.P. Menon, The Transfer of Power in India, Bombay , 1957

V.P.Menon, The story of the Integration of the Indian states, Bombay, 1956.

The Fate of Tibet

When big insects eat small insects

Claude Arpi

with a Foreword by His Holiness the Dalai Lama

New Delhi, Har-Anand, 1999



Muslim League Attack on Sikhs and Hindus in the Punjab 1947

Compiled for the SGPC

by

S. GURBACHAN SINGH TALIB

Introduction to the reprint

by

RAM SWARUP

Voice of India, New Delhi