South Asia - Recommended History and Religion E-Books

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General Islamic India

  1. The Adventures of Amir hamza by Ghalib Lakhnavi, Abdullah Bilgrami & Musharraf Ali Farooqi (1000-1562 AD) - 560 pages
  2. India in the Persianate Age by Richard M. Eaton (1000-1765 AD) - 512 pages
  3. India before Europe by Catherine B. Asher & Cynthia Talbot (1200-1750 AD) - 465 pages

Medieval Islamic India - Delhi Sultanate

  1. Studies in Indian History and Culture by U N Ghoshal (1100s AD) - 500 pages
  2. Abraham’s Luggage by Elizabeth A. Lambourn (1100s AD) - 616 pages
  3. The Last Hindu Emperor by Cynthia Talbot (1200 AD) - 665 pages
  4. The Courts of the Deccan Sultanates by Emma J. Flatt (1450-1600 AD) - 609 pages

Early Modern Islamic India - Mughal Empire

  1. A History of Jaipur c. 1503-1938 by Jadunath Sarkar - 566 pages
  2. Writing the Mughal World by Muzaffar Alam & Sanjay Subrahmanyam (mid 1500s-early 1800s AD) - 480 pages
  3. A Short History of Aurangzib by Jadunath Sarkar (1658-1707 AD) - 491 pages

General Information Hindu India

  1. Dancing with Siva by Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami - 955 pages
  2. The Four Paths of Yoga by Swami Vivekananda & Adriano Lucchese - 540 pages
  3. The Hindus by Wendy Doniger - 800 pages
  4. Indian Philosophy in English by Nalini Bhushan & Jay L. Garfield - 664 pages
  5. On Hinduism by Wendy Doniger - 672 pages
  6. The Yoga Tradition by Georg Feuerstein - 1,192 pages
  7. Bhakti Yoga by Edwin F. Bryant - 1,068 pages

Classical Texts Hindu India

  1. Bhagavad-gita As It Is by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada and Srimad Bhagavad-gita by Sri Srimad Bhaktivedanta Narayana Gosvami Maharaja - 1,024 pages + 1,049 pages = 2,073 pages
  2. Sri Brhad-bhagavatamrta by Gopiparanadhana Dasa - Parts 1-3 936 + 990 + 920 = 2,846 pages
  3. Krishna: The Beautiful Legend of God by None & Edwin F. Bryant (300s-900s AD) - 608 pages
  4. Mahabharata - The Complete Collection by Amar Chitra Katha - 1,348 pages (Comic Book Version)
  5. Svetasvataropanisad by Devadatta Kali - 572 pages
  6. Uddhava Gita by Srila Vyasadeva & Purnaprajna Dasa - 981 pages

Southern India

  1. Trade and Trade Routes in Ancient India by Moti Chandra (up to 1000 AD) - 466 pages
  2. Periya Puranam by Sekkizhaar (1100s AD) - 665 pages
  3. Matritime Malabar and The Europeans 1500-1962 by K. S. Mathew - 536 pages
  4. Vaisnava Iconography in the Tamil Country by R. Champalakshmi (300 BC-1300 AD) - 540 pages
  5. Hundred Tamil Folk and Tribal Tales by Sujatha Vijayaraghavan - 480 pages

More India

  1. The Jain Saga by Kalikaal Sarvagya Hemchandrasuriswarji & Muni Samvegyash Vijayji - 532 pages
  2. History of the Bengali People (Ancient Period) by Niharranjan Ray (before 1200 AD) - 581 pages