India (Bookshelf)
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The Republic of India (Hindi: भारत गणराज्य Bhārat Gaṇarājya), commonly known as India, is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second most populous country, and the most populous liberal democracy in the world. India has a coastline of over seven thousand kilometres, bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the west, and the Bay of Bengal on the east. India borders Pakistan to the west;[1] People's Republic of China, Nepal and Bhutan to the north-east; and Bangladesh and Myanmar to the east.
—Excerpted from India on Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia.
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Biography
- Richard von Garbe Akbar, Emperor of India
- William Sleeman Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official
- Frederick Sleigh Roberts Forty-one years in India
- Rabindranath Tagore My Reminiscences
- Rabindranath Tagore Glimpses of Bengal;
Selected from the Letters of Sir Rabindranath Tagore
- Life and Work in Benares and Kumaon, 1839-1877 Kennedy, James, 1815-1899
Folklore
- Cecil Henry Bompas Folklore of the Santal Parganas
- Joseph Jacobs Indian Fairy Tales
- Rudyard Kipling Indian Tales
- S. M. Mitra Hindu Tales from the Sanskrit
- Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan Dutt, Toru, 1856-1877
- Sir Richard Francis Burton Vikram and the Vampire; Classic Hindu Tales of Adventure, Magic, and Romance
History
- F. Max Müller India: What can it teach us?
- William Eleroy Curtis Modern India
- H. G. Keene Fall of the Moghul Empire of Hindustan
- John Morley Indian speeches (1907-1909)
- Fernão Nunes, Domingos Paes, and Robert Sewell A Forgotten Empire (Vijayanagar): a contribution to the history of India
- Annie Besant The Case for India
- Valentine Chirol India, Old and New
- Valentine Chirol Indian Unrest
- G. A. Henty (George Alfred) With Clive in India
- Third class in Indian railways Gandhi, Mahatma, 1869-1948
Literature
- Hindustani Lyrics
- Bankim Chandra Chatterjee The Poison Tree
- R. N. Dutta Tales from the Hindu Dramatists
- Kalidasa Sakoontala or the Lost Ring
- H. H. Milman Nala and Damayanti and Other Poems
- Arthur F. J. Remy The Influence of India and Persia on the Poetry of Germany
- King Shudraka The Little Clay Cart (Mrcchakatika)
- Sarojini Naidu The Golden Threshold
- Works of Rabindranath Tagore
- Valmiki The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse trans. Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin), 1826-1906
Nature
- Robert Armitage Sterndale Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
- Douglas Dewar A Bird Calendar for Northern India
- Birds of the Indian Hills Dewar, Douglas, 1875-1957
- A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses Rangachari, K. and Tadulinga Mudaliyar, C.
Society
- Oliver Optic Across India: Or, Live Boys in the Far East Fiction
- R. V. Russell The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India
- Various Behind the News: Voices from Goa's Press
Travel
- Faxian A Record of Buddhistic kingdoms: being an account by the Chinese monk Fa-hsien of travels in India and Ceylon (A.D. 399-414) in search of the Buddhist books of discipline
- H. P. Blavatsky From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan
- William Sleeman A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude
- The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir Douie, James McCrone, Sir, 1854-1935
Religion
- Surendranath Dasgupta A History of Indian Philosophy , Vol. 1
- Edward Washburn Hopkins The Religions of India , Vol. 1
