Recommended reading
On the study or interpretation of India
Barrier, N. Gerald. India and America: American Publishing on India, 1930–1985. New
Delhi: American Institute of Indian Studies, 1986.
Brown, W. N. The United States and India and Pakistan. Cambridge: Harvard University
Press, 1963.
Brown, W. Norman. India and Indology: Selected Articles. ed. Rosane Rocher. Delhi:
Motilal Banarsidass, 1978.
Halbfass, W. India and Europe, an Essay in Understanding. Albany: SUNY Press, 1988.
Inden, Ron. Imagining India. Oxford and Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 1990.
Sachau, E. C. Alberuni’s India: An Account of the Religion, Philosophy, Literature, Geography,
Chronology, Astronomy, Customs, Laws, and Astrology of India about AD 1030. Two
volumes. London: Trubner & Co., 1888.
Welbon, G. The Buddhist Nirvana and its Western Interpreters. Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, 1968.
For a general history or overview of South Asia
Basham, A. L. The Wonder that was India. New York: Grove Press, 1959.
Basham, A. L. ed. A Cultural History of India. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975.
Bhattacharyya, H. ed. The Cultural History of India. Four volumes. Calcutta:
Ramakrishna Mission, 1953–56.
Elder, J. W. ed. Lectures in Indian Civilization. Dubuque, IA: Kendall Hunt Publishing
Co., 1970.
Keay, John. India: A History. New York: Harper Collins, 2002.
Schwartzberg, J. E. ed. Historical Atlas of India. Second edition. Chicago: University
of Chicago Press, 1990.
Thapar, Romila. A History of India. Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1966.
Wolpert, J. Stanley. A New History of India. Sixth edition. New York: Oxford University
Press, 2000.
General introductions to Indian religion
Basham, A. L. The Origins and Development of Classical Hinduism. New York: Oxford
University Press, 1991.
Coward, H. and Goa, W. Mantra. Chambersburg, PA: Anima Books, 1991.
Eck, Diane. Dars ́an: Seeing the Divine Image in India. Third edition. New York: Columbia
University Press, 1998.
Embree, A. ed. Sources of Indian Tradition. Volume one. New York: Columbia
University Press, 1988.
Flood, G. An Introduction to Hinduism. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Kinsley, David. Hinduism: A Cultural Perspective. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall,
1982.
Klostermaier, K. A Survey of Hinduism. Albany: SUNY Press, 1994.
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