Indian History Books
Created:
Important Indian History Authors
- R C Majumdar
- Nilakantha Sastry
Books
Many of these are available on archive.org.
Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan
Chief editors: R C Majumdar and S Ramakrishnan
History and Culture of the Indian People, Volume 01, The Vedic Age archive.org link
History and Culture of the Indian People, Volume 02,The Age Of Imperial Unity archive.org link
History and Culture of the Indian People, Volume 03, The Classical Age archive.org link
History and Culture of the Indian People, Volume 04, The Age Of Imperial Kanauj archive.org link
History and Culture of the Indian People, Volume 05, The Struggle For Empire archive.org link
History and Culture of the Indian People, Volume 06,The Delhi Sultanate archive.org link
History and Culture of the Indian People, Volume 07, The Mughul Empire archive.org link
History and Culture of the Indian People, Volume 08, The Maratha Supremacy archive.org link
History and Culture of the Indian People, Volume 10, British Paramountcy And Indian Renaissance, Part 2 archive.org link
History and Culture of the Indian People, Volume 11, Struggle for Freedom, Part 1 archive.org link
South India
K A Nilakanta Sastri
Published by Oxford University Press
A History of South India by K A Nilakanta Sastri archive.org link
The cōḷas by K A Nilakanta Sastri archive.org link
The Pandyan kingdom by K A Nilakanta Sastri archive.org link
Life in Ancient India
A L Basham
The Wonder That Was India archive.org link
Radha Kumud Mookerji
Ancient Indian education archive.org link
Local Government in Ancient India archive.org link
State and government in Ancient India archive.org link
R C Majumdar
Corporate life in Ancient India archive.org link
A S Altekar
Education in Ancient India archive.org link
Vasudev S Agrawala
The above page was a result of a twitter discussion on May 25, 2020, the person asking for recommendation finally settled on these books:
- Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Series: History and Culture of the Indian People (11 volumes)
- The Wonder That Was India (A.L. Basham)
- South Indian History (Neelakantha Sastry)
- Land of the Sever Rivers (Sanjeev Sanyal)
- Ancient India (R.C. Majumdar)
- Medieval India (J.L. Mehta)
- Modern India (Shekhar Bandopadhyaya)
