A Reading List for Graduate Studies in Modern South Asian History
May 2001

See separate lists for
Subaltern Studies and agrarian history

The most important reference book is Joseph E. Schwartzberg, A Historical Atlas of South Asia, which is on permanent reserve in South Asia Reference Room and should be thoroughly studied from cover to cover. For quick reference on specific topics, also please note the utility of internet resources, for which see relevant sites at http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~dludden/courseframe.htm

Keep up with UP Delhi ThemesVolumes and New Cambridge History series -- current list below

Keep up with Indian Economic and Social History Review, South Asia, South Asia Research, Studies in History, Modern Asian Studies, Calcutta Historical Journal, and Journal of Asian Studies.

Adas, Michael. Machines As the Measure of Men: Science, Technology, and Ideologies of Western Dominance. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1989.

———. The Burma Delta: Economic Development and Social Change on an Asian Rice Frontier, 1852-1941. Madison: 1974.

Ahmed, Rafiuddin. The Bengal Muslims, 1871-1906, A Quest for Identity. Oxford University Press, 1981.

Alam, Muzaffar, The crisis of empire in Mughal north India : Awadh and the Punjab, 1707-48. Delhi, 1986

Ali, Imran. The Punjab Under Imperialism, 1885-1940. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988.

Aloysius, G. Nationalism Without a Nation in India. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Amin, Shahid. Event, Metaphor, and Memory. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1996.

Amin, Sonia Nishat. The world of Muslim women in colonial Bengal, 1876-1939, Leiden, New York : E.J. Brill, 1996.

Anderson, Benedict. Imagined Communities. London: 1983.

The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective, Editor Arjun Appadurai. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986.

Arnold, David. Colonizing The Body: state medicine and epidemic disease in nineteenth-century India. Berkeley : University of California Press, 1993.

Nature, Culture, Imperialism: Essays on the Environmental History of South Asia, Editors David Arnold and Ramachandra Guha. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1995.

Bailey, F. G. Caste and the Economic Frontier. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1957.

———. Tribe, Caste and Nation. Manchester: 1960.

Baker, Christopher John. An Indian Rural Economy: The Tamilnad Countryside, 1880-1955. Oxford and Delhi: Oxford University Press; 1984.

Baker, Christopher J. and David Washbrook. South India: Political Institutions and Political Change 1880-1940. Delhi: 1975.

Ballhatchet, Kenneth. Race, Sex and Class Under the Raj: Imperial Attitudes and Policies and Their Critics 1793-1905. St, Martin's Press, 1980.

Banerjee, Nirmala. "Working Women in Colonial Bengal: Modernization and Marginalization." In Recasting Women: Essays in Colonial HistoryKumkum and S. Vaid Sangari, 269-3011989.

Banuri, Tariq. "Modernization and Its Discontents; A Cultural Perspective on Theories of Development." in Dominating Knowledge, eds. Frederique Apfel Marglin and Stephen Marglin. New York: OUP, 1990.

Barrier, N. Gerald. Banned: Controversial Literature and Political Control in British India 1907-1947. Columbia, Missouri: 1974.

Roots of Communal Politics, Editor N. Gerald Barrier. New Delhi and Columbus: Manohar and South Asia Books, 1976.

———. The Census in British India. South Asia Books, 1981.

Baskaran, S. Theodore. The Message Bearers: The Nationalist Politics and Entertainment Media in South India, 1880-1945 . 1981.

Baxi, Upendra. "Reflections on the Reservation Crisis in Gujarat." in Mirrors of Violence: Communities, Riots and Survivors in South Asia, editor Veena Das, 215-40. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1990.

Bayly, C. A. "English-Language Historiography on British Expansion in India and Indian Reactions Since 1945." in Reappraisals in Overseas History: Essay on Post-War Historiography About European Expansion, eds. P. C. & H. L. Wesseling Emmer, 21-53. Leiden: Leiden U. Press, 1979.

———. Imperial Meridian. The British Empire and the World, 1780-1830. London: Longman, 1989.

———. Indian Society and the Making of the British Empire. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988.

Beteille, Andre. Caste, Class, and Power: Changing Patterns of Social Stratification in a Tanjore Village. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1965.

Bhattacharya, Sabyasachi and Romila Thapar editors. Situating Indian History, for Sarvapalli Gopal. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1986.

Bose, Sugata. Peasant Labour and Colonial Capital: Rural Bengal Since 1770. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.

Bose, Sugata ed. South Asia and World Capitalism. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1990.

Brass, Paul. Ethnicity and Nationalism: Theory and Comparison. Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications, 1992.

———. Language, Religion, and Politics in North India. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1974.

Breman, Jan. Labour Migration and Rural Transformation in Colonial Asia. Free University Press, 1990.

Breton, Roland J. L. Atlas of the Languages and Ethnic Communities of South Asia. Thousand Oaks: Sage, 1997.

Broomfield, John H. Elite Conflict in a Plural Society: Twentieth Century Bengal. Berkeley: U. Cal Press, 1968.

Brown, Judith M. Gandhi's Rise to Power, Indian Politics 1915-1922. Cambridge Univ. Press, 1972.

———. Modern India: The Origins of an Asian Democracy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985.

Orientalism and the Postcolonial Predicament, editors Carol A Breckenridge and Peter van der Veer. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993.

Cashman, Richard. "The Political Recruitment of the God Ganapati." Indian Economic and Social History Review, 7,3, 1970, 347-373 reprinted inIndia, rebellion to republic: selected writings, 1857-1990, edited by Robin Jeffrey, Robin, et al., New Delhi: Sterling Publishers, 1990, pp.37-63

Catanach, I. J. "Plague and the Indian Vilage, 1896-1914." in Rural India: Land, Power and Society Under British Rule, editor Peter Robb, pp.217-43. London: Curzon Press, 1993.

Chakrabarty, Dipesh. Rethinking Working Class History: Bengal 1890-1940. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1989.

Chandra, Bipan. The Rise and Growth of Economic Nationalism in India: Economic Policies of the Indian National Leadership, 1880-1905. New Delhi: 1966.

Chatterjee, Partha. Nationalist Thought and the Colonial World: A Derivative Discourse. Delhi: OUP, 1986.

———. The Nation and Its Fragments: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories. Princeton: 1993.

Chaudhuri, K. N. The Trading World of Asia and the English East India Company, 1660-1760. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1978.

Economy and Society: Essays in Indian Economic and Social History, editors K. N. Chaudhuri and Clive J. Dewey . Delhi: 1979.

Clark, Alice W., Analysing the Reproduction of Human Beings and Social Formations, with Indian Regional Examples over the Last Century. " Gender and Political Economy: Explorations of South Asian Systems, Editor Alice W. Clark. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1994.

———. "Mortality, Fertility, and the Status of Women in India, 1881-1931." In India's Historical Demography: Studies in Famine, Disease and Society, editor Tim Dyson. London: Curzon Press, 1989.

Cohn, Bernard S. An Anthropologist Among the Historians and Other Essays. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1987.

———. Colonialism and Its Form of Knowledge: The British in India. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996.

Conlon, Frank. A Caste in a Changing World: The Chitrapur Saraswat Brahmins 1700-1935. Berkeley and Los Angeles: Uniersity of California Press, 1977.

Representing Hinduism: The Construction of Religions Traditions and National Identity, Editors Vasudha Dalmia and Heinrich Von Stietencron . Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1995.

Mirrors of Violence: Communities, Riots and Survivors in South Asia, editor Veena Das. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1990.

Derrett, J. Duncan M. Religion, Law and the State in India. Faber and Faber, 1968.

Desai, A. R. The Social Background of Indian Nationalism. Edinburgh: Oxford U. Press, Univ. of Bombay Publications; Sociology Series no.2.

Dewey, Clive. "The End of the Imperialism of Free Trade: the Eclipse of the Lancashire Lobby and the Concession of Free Trade to India." The Imperial Impact: Studies in the Economic History of Africa and India, editors Clive and A. G. Hopkins Dewey, 35-67. London: Athlone press, 1978.

Colonialism and Culture, Editor Nicholas B. Dirks. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1992.

Dirks, Nicholas B. The Hollow Crown: Ethnohistory of an Indian Kingdom. Cambridge, 1987

-----------. "The Invention of Caste: Civil Society in Colonial India." In Identity, Consciousness and the Past: The South Asian Scene, Editor H.L. Seneviratne. Adelaide, S.A., Austrailia: University of Adelaide, 1989.

Dumont, Louis. Religion, Politics and History in India. Paris: Mouton, 1970.

Dutt, Romesh Chandra. The Economic History of India: 2 Vols. London: K.Paul Trench, Trubner and Co., 1960.

Eisenstadt, S. N. European Expansion and the Civilization of Modernity. Leiden: Univ. Press, 1978.

Engels, Dagmar. Beyond Purdah? Women in Bengal, 1890-1939. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1996.

South Asian Islam: Moral Principles in Tension, editor Katharine Ewing. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988.

Fox, Richard G. "Gandhian Socialism and Hindu Nationalism: Cultural Domination in the World System." In South Asia And World Capitalism, Editor Sugata Bose, 244-61. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1990.

———. Gandhian Utopia: Experiments With Culture. Boston: Beacon Press, 1989.

———. Lions of the Punjab: Culture in the Making. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1985.

Frankel, Francine and M. S. A. Rao ed. Dominance and State Power in India. Decline of a Social Order, Vol. I. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.

Frankel, Francine R. India's Political Economy, 1947-1977: The Gradual Revolution. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1978.

Freitag, Sandria B. Collective Action and Community: Public Arenas and the Emergence of Communalism in North India, 1870-1940. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989.

Culture and Power in Banaras: Community, Performance and Environment, 1800-1980, Editor Sandria B. Freitag. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989.

Frykenberg, Robert Eric. Guntur District, 1788-1848: A History of Local Influence and Central Authority in South India. Oxford University Press, 1965.

Land Control and Social Structure in Indian History, Editor Robert Eric Frykenberg. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1969.

Gallagher, John. Imperialism: The Gallagher and Robinson Controversy. New York: New Veiwpoints, 1986.

Gallagher, John Gordon Johnson and Anil Seal eds. Locality, Province and Nation: Essays on Indian Politics, 1870-1940 . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1973.

Gellner, Ernest. Nations and Nationalism. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1983.

Gilmartin, David. Empire and Islam: Punjab and the Making of Pakistan. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1989.

Gopal, Sarvepalli. "The Formative Ideology of Jawaharlal Nehru." in National and Left Movements in India, ed. K.N.Panikar. New Delhi: 1980.

Gordon, Leonard. "Bengal's Gandhi: A Study in Modern India Regionalism, Politics and Thought." in Bengal Regioal Identity, editor Kapf, 87-130.

Greenough, Paul R. Prosperity and Misery in Modern Bengal: The Famine of 1943-1944. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982.

Guha, Ranajit. A Rule of Property for Bengal. Paris: 1963.

———. Elementary Aspects of Peasant Insurgency in Colonial India. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1983.

Guha, Ranajit editor. Subaltern Studies: Writings on South Asian History and Society. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1982-1989.

Habib, S. Ifran and Raina Dhruv. "The Discourse on Scientific Rationality: A Study of Master Ramchandra." In Interrogating Modernity: Culture and Colonialism in India, Editors Tejaswini P. Sudhir Vivek Dhareshwar Niranjana, 348-681993.

Habib, Irfan. The Agrarian System of Mughal India: 1556-1707. Bombay & New York: Asia Publishing House, 1963.

Habib, Irfan, An atlas of the Mu_g_hal Empire : political and economic maps with detailed notes, bibliography and index. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1982.

--------. The Cambridge economic history of India, edited with Tapan Raychaudhuri. Cambridge, 1982

---------. Confronting colonialism : resistance and modernization under Haidar Ali & Tipu Sultan, edited by Irfan Habib. New Delhi: Tulika, 1999.

--------. Essays in Indian history : towards a Marxist perception, New Delhi : Tulika, 1995.

--------. "Classifying Pre-Colonial India." in Feudalism and Non-European Societies, editor Harbans Mukhia, pp. 44-53. London: Frank Cass, 1985.

Hardiman, David. The Coming of the Devi: Adivasi Assertion in Western India. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1987.

------. Feeding the Baniya : peasants and usurers in Western India. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1996.

------. Peasant nationalists of Gujarat : Kheda District, 1917-1934. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1981.

------. Peasant resistance in India, 1858-1914 / edited by David Hardiman. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1992.

Hardy, Peter. The Muslims of British India. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1972.

Hasan, Mushirul. Communal and Pan-Islamic Trends in Colonial India. New Delhi: Manohar, 1985.

———. Legacy of a Divided: India's Muslims From Independence to Ayodhya. Boulder: Westview, 1997.

———. Nationalism and Communal Politics in India 1885-1932. New Delhi: Manohar, 1991.

India's Partition: Process, Strategy and Mobilization, Editor Mushirul Hasan. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1993.

Haynes, Douglas E. Rhetoric and Ritual in Colonial IndiaL The Shaping of a Public Culture in Surat City, 1852-1928. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991.

Contesting power : resistance and everyday social relations in South Asia, edited by Douglas Haynes and Gyan Prakash. Berkeley : University of California Press, 1992.

Hobsbawm, Eric. Nations and Nationalism Since 1870. London: 1987.

Hobsbawm, Eric J. and T. O. Ranger eds. The Invention of Tradition. Cambridge University Press, 1982.

Inden, Ronald. Imagining India. Cambridge, Mass.: Basil Blackwell, Inc., 1990.

History of Bangladesh, 1704-1971, Editor Sirajul Islam. 3 volumes Dhaka: Asiatic Society of Bangladesh, 1997.

Jalal, Ayesha. Democracy and Authoritarianism in South Asia. New Delhi: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

———. "Secularists, Subalterns and the Stigma of 'Communalism': Partition Historiography Revisited." Indian Economic and Social History Review 33, no. 1 (1996): 93-103.

———. "State-Building in the Post-War World: Britain's Colonial Legacy, American Futures and Pakistan." In South Asia And World Capitalism, Editor Sugata Bose, 262-304. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1990.

———. "Structural Authoritarianism and Democratic Politics: The State in India and Pakistan.".

———. The Sole Spokesman: Jinnah, the Muslim League and the Demand for Pakistan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985.

———. The State of Martial Rule: The Origins of Pakistan's Political Economy of Defence. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.

Jalal, Ayesha and Sugata Bose. Modern South Asia: History, Culture, and Political Economy. London: Routledge, 1998.

Jones, Kenneth W. Socio-Religious Reform Movements in British India. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.

Kling, Blair B. and Pearson M. N. The Age of Partnership: Europeans in Asia Before Domination. University of Hawaii Press, 1979.

Kolff, Dirk H. A. "The End of an Ancien Regime: Colonial War in India, 1798-1818." in Imperialism and War: Essays on Colonial Wars in Asia, editors J.A. Moor and H.L. Wesseling. Leiden.

--------. Naukar, Rajput, and sepoy : the ethnohistory of the military labour market in Hindustan, 1450-1850 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990

Kopf, David. "A Macrohistoriographical Essay on the Idea of East and West From Herodotus to Edward Said." The Calcutta Historical Journal 11, no. (1-2) (1986-1987): pp. 1-24.

———. British Orientalism and the Bengal Renaissance: The Dynamics of Indian Modernization, 1773-1835. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1969.

———. The Brahmo Samaj and the Shaping of the Modern Indian Mind. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979.

Kumar, Deepak ed. Science and Empire: Essays in Indian Context. Anamika, 1991.

Kumar, Dharma editor. The Cambridge Economic History of India, Volume 2: C.1750-c.1970. New Delhi: Cambridge University Press, 1983.

--------.Colonialism, property, and the state. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1998.

--------. Land and caste in South India : agricultural labour in the Madras Presidency during the nineteenth century. Cambridge 1965, revised second edition New Delhi: 1992.

Kumar, Kapil. "Rural Women in Oudh 1917-1947: Baba Ram Chandra and the Wpomen's Question." In Recasting Women; Essays in Colonial History, Editors Kumkum and Sudesh Vaid Sangari, 337-69. New Delhi: Kali for Women, 1989.

Kumar, Nita. The Artisans of Banaras: Popular Culture and Identity, 1880-1986. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988.

Leonard, Karen. The Kayasths of Hyderabad: The Social History of an Indian Caste.

Low, D. A. Eclipse of Empire. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.

———. Lion Rampart: Essays on the Study of Br. Imperialism. Lonson: 1973.

----------, editor. Soundings in Modern South Asian History, editor D. A. Low, 294-329. Berkley: UCal Press, 1968.

———. editor. South Asia special issue on "North India: Partition and Independence" (1995).

———, editor. The Congress and the Raj: Facets of the Indian Struggle, 1917-1947. London: 1977.

———, editor. The Indian National Congress: Centenary Hindsights Cambridge, 1989.

Low, D. A. J. C. Iltis and M. D. Wainwright. Gov't Archives in South Asia: A Guide to National and State Archives in Ceylon, India and Pakistan. London: Camb U.P., 1969.

Contesting the Nation: Religion, Community, and the Politics of Democracy in IndiaDavid Ludden. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996.

Ludden, David. Peasant History in South India. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985.

Maddison, Angus. Class Structure and Economic Growth: India AndPakistan Since the Moghuls. NY: Norton, 1971.

Majeed, J. "James Mill's 'The History of British India' and Utilitarianism As a Rhetoric of Reform." Modern Asian Studies 24, no. 2 (1990): 209-24.

Mani, Lata. "Cultural Theory, Colonial Texts: Reading Eyewitness Accounts of Widow Burning." Cultural Studies (1992): 392-404.

———. "The Female Subject, the Colonial Gaze: Reading Eyewitness Accounts of Window Burning." In Interrogating Modernity: Culture and Colonialism in India, 273-901993.

Marshall, P. J. Bengal: The British Bridgehead. Eastern India, 1740-1828. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987.

--------. "Early British Imperialism in India." Past and Present 106 (1985): pp. 164-68.

-------. East India Fortunes. The British in Bengal in the Eighteenth Century. Oxford: 1976.

———. Problens of Empire: Britain and India 1757-1813. London: 1968.

———, editor. "The British Discovery of Hinduism in the 18th C." European Understanding in India SeriesCambridge UP, 1970.

Maskiell, Michelle. "Gender, Kinship and Rural Work in Colonial Punjab." Journal of Women's History Vol.2:1 (1990).

———. Women Between Cultures: the Lives of Kinnaird College Alumnae in British India. Syracuse, NY: Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, 1984.

———. "Women's Work and the Household Economy in Punjab." In Punjab in Perspective, Editors Surjit Dulai and Arthur Helweg. East Lansing, MI.: Asian Studies Center, Michigan State University, 1991.

Masselos, James. Nationalism in the Indian Subcontinent. An Introductory History. Melbourne: 1972.

McAlpin, Michelle Burge. Subject to Famine: Food Crisis and Economic Change in Western India, 1860-1920. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983.

McDonald, Ellen E. "The Growth of Regional Conscienousness in Maharashtra." IESHR V, no. 3 (1968).

---------.. "City-Hinterland Relations and the Development of a Regional Elite in Nineteenth Century Bombay." Journal of Asian Studies 33, no. 4 (1974): 581-601.

McLane, John R. Indian Nationalism and the Early Congress. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1977.

Metcalf, Barbara Daly. Islamic Revival in Brisith India: Deoband, 1860-1900. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982.

———. Perfecting Women: Maulana Ashraf 'Ali Thanawi's Bihishti Sewar. A Partial Translation. Berkeley: 1990.

Metcalf, Thomas. An Imperial Vision: Indian Architecture and Britain's Raj. UCAL Press, 1989.

Metcalf, Thomas R. An Imperial Vision: Indian Architecture and Britain's Raj. UCAL Press, 1989.

———. Ideologies of the Raj. The New Cambridge History of India. III.4. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

———. Modern India: An Interpretive Anthology. London: 1971.

———. The Aftermath of Revolt: India, 1857-1870. New Delhi: Manohar, 1990.

Minault, Gail. The Khilafat Movement Religious Symbolism and Political Mobilization in India. NY: Columbia U. Press, 1982.

--------. editor. The Extended Family: Women and Political Paritcipation in India and Pakistan. Columbia, MO.: South Asia Books, 1981.

Mitter, Partha. Much Maligned Monsters. History of European Reactions to Indian Art. Oxford: 1977.

Mukherjee, Ramkrishna. "The Local Background Fo Bangladesh." in Imperialism and Revolution in South Asia, editors Kathleen and Hari Sharma Gough, 399-418.

Mukherjee, S. N. "Class, Caste and Politics in Calcutta, 1815-38." in Elites in South AsiaLeach and Mukherjee, 33-78.

Nandy, Ashis. The Intimate Enemy: Loss and Recovery of Self Under Colonialism. Delhi and New York: Oxford University Press, 1983.

Naoroji, Dadabhai. Poverty and British Rule in India. London: 1901.

Nehru, Jawaharlal. The Discovery of India. Garden City, N.Y.: The John Day co.; Doubleday and Co., Inc., Anchor Books Division, 1960.

O'Hanlon, Rosalind. Caste, Conflict and Ideology: Mahatma Jotirao Phule and Low-Caste Protest in Western India. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985.

———. "Issues of Widowhood: Gender and Resistance in Colonial Western India." in Contesting Power: Resistance and Everyday Social Relations in South Asia, eds Douglas Haynes and Gyan Prakash. Delhi: OUP, 1991.

Oldenburg, Veena Talwar. The Making of Colonial Luckmov 1856-1877. Delhi, Bombay, Calcutta, Madras: Oxford U.P., 1989.

Omvedt, Gail. Dalits and the Democratic Revolution: Dr. Ambedkar and the Dalit Movement in Colonial India. Thousand Oaks: Sage, 1994.

———. "Migration in Colonial India: The Articulation of Feudalism and Capitalism by the Colonial State." Journal of Peasant Studies 7, no. 2 (1980): 185-212.

———. Reinventing Revolution: New Social Movements and Tghe Socialist Tradition in India. Armonk: M.E.Sharpe, 1993.

Panikkar, K. M. Asia and Western Dominance. George Allen & Unwin, 1959-1969.

Pandey, Gyan. "The Colonial Construction of 'Communalism': British Writings on Benares in the Nineteenth Century." in Mirrors of Violence: Communities, Riots and Survivors in South Asia, editor Veena Das, 94-134. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1990.

Pandey, Gyanendra. The Ascendancy of the Congress in Uttar Pradesh, 1926-1934: A Study in Imperfect Mobilization. New York: 1978.

———. The Construction of Communalism in Colonial North India. New Delhi: OUP, 1990.

--------. editor. Hindus and Others: The Question of Identity in India Today. New Delhi: VIKING by Penguin Books India, 1993.

---------. editor The Indian Nation in 1942. Calcutta: K.P.Bagchi and Co., 1988.

Pandey, Indu Prakash. Romantic Feminism in Hindi Novels Written by Women. New Delhi: The House of Letters, 1990.

Issues in modern Indian history: for Sumit Sarkar, edited by Biswamoy Pati, Mumbai : Popular Prakashan, 2000.

Philips, Cyril Henry and M. D. Wainwright. Indian Society and the Beginnings of Modernization, C. 1830-1850. London: SOAS, 1976.

Philips, Cyril Henry and Mary Doreen Wainwright editors. The Partition of India: Policies and Perspectives 1935-1947 . London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd., 1970.

Philips, Cyril Henry editor. Historians of India, Pakistan, and Ceylon. London: 1961.

———. Politics and Society in India. NY: Praeger, 1962.

After Colonialism: Imperial Histories and Postcolonial Displacements, Editor Gyan Prakash. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995.

Prakash, Gyan. Bonded Histories: Genealogoies of Labor Servitude in Colonial India. Cambridge University Press, 1990.

Richman, Paul ed. Many Ramayanas; The Diversity of a Narrative Tradition in South Asia. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991.

Robb, Peter. Ancient rights and future comfort : Bihar, the Bengal Tenancy Act of 1885, and British rule in India. Richmond, Surrey : Curzon, 1997.

-------. editor. Rule, protest, identity : aspects of modern South Asia, with David Taylor, London: Curzon Press 1978.

-------. editor. Rural South Asia : linkages, change, and development. London : Curzon Press, 1983.

-------. editor. Rural India : land power and society under British rule. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1992.

-------. editor. Society and ideology : essays in South Asian history, in collaboration with K.N. Chaudhuri and Avril Powell. Delhi : Oxford University Press, 1993.

-------. editor. Dalit movements and the meanings of labour in India. Delhi : Oxford University Press, 1993.

-------. editor. Institutions and ideologies, with David Arnold, Curzon Press, 1993.

-------. editor. The concept of race in South Asia. Delhi : Oxford University Press, 1995.

-------. editor. Local agrarian societies in colonial India : Japanese perspectives, with Kaoru Sugihara and Haruka Yanagisawa.Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, 1996.

-------. editor. Meanings of agriculture : essays in South Asian history and economics. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1996.

Rocher, Rosane. Orientalism, Poetry, and the Millennium: The Checkered Life of Nathaniel Brassey Halhed, 1751-1830. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidas, 1983.

Rogers, John. "Colonial Perceptions of Ethnicity and Culture in Early Nineteenth Century Sri Lanka." in Society and Ideology: Essasy in South Asian History, editor (in collaboration withy K.N.Chaudhuri and Avril Powell) Peter Robb, pp91-110. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1993.

Rogers, John D. "Cultural and Social Resistance: Gambling in Colonial Sri Lanka." in Contesting Power: Resistance and Everyday Social Relations in South Asia, eds Douglas Haynes and Gyan Prakash. Delhi: OUP, 1991.

Rothermund, Dietmar. An Economic History of India: From Pre-Colonial Times to 1986. London: Croom Helm, 1988.

———. India and the Great Depression, 1929-1939.

Rudolph, Lloyd I. and Susanne H. Rudolph. Gandhi the Traditional Roots of Charisma. Chicago and London: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1967.

Sarkar, Sumit. A Critique of Colonial India. Calcutta, India: Papyrus, 1985.

———. Bibliographical Survey of Social Reform Movements in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. New Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research, 1975.

———. Modern India, 1885-1947 . Delhi: Macmillan, 1986.

———. The Swadeshi Movement in Bengal. Delhi: 1973.

———. An exploration of the Ramakrishna Vivekananda tradition. Shimla : Indian Institute of Advanced Study, 1993.

———. 'Popular' movements and \middle class' leadership in late colonial India : perspectives and problems of a 'history from below' Calcutta : Published for Centre for Studies in Social Sciences by K.P. Bagchi, 1983.

———.Writing social history. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1997

Sarkar, Tanika. Bengal, 1928-1934 : the politics of protest, Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1987.

———. "Hindu Conjugality and Nationalism: in Late Nineteenth Century Bengal." In Indian Women: Myth and Reality, Editor Jasodhara Bagchi, 98-116. Calcutta: Sangam Books Limited, 1995.

———. "The Hindu Wife and The Hindu Nation: Domesticity and Nationalism in Late 19th Century Bengal." Studies in History 8, no. 2 (1992): 213-36.

——— editor. Women and right-wing movements : Indian experiences. with Urvashi Butalia, London: Zed Books, 1995.

Savarkar, V. D. Hindu-Pad-Padashahi; or, A Review of the Hindu Empire of Maharashtra. New Delhi: Bharti Sahitya Sadan, 1971.

Schendel, Willem von and Aminul Haque Faraizi. Rural Labourers in Bengal, 1880-1980. Rotterdam: Erasmus University, 1984.

Schwartzberg, Joseph E. Historical Atlas of South Asia. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978.

Seal, Anil. The Emergence of Indian Nationalism: Competition and Collaboration in the Later Nineteenth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1968.

Seeley, J. R. The Expansion of England. U of Chicago Press (dept of Classics), 1971.

Sen, Amartya K. Poverty and Famine: An Essay in Entitlement and Deprivation. New York, London: Oxford University Press, 1981.

Sen, Surendranath. Eighteen Fifty Seven. New Delhi: Govt. of India, 1958.

Singh, K. S. "The Freedom Movement and Tribal Sub-Movement, 1920-1947." in Essays in Modern Indian Historyed Nanda, pp. 154-66.

Sinha, Mrinalini. Colonial Masculinity : the 'Manly Englishman' and the 'Effeminate Bengali' in the Late Nineteenth Century. Mancheste; New York: Manchester University Press, 1995.

Sontheimer, Gunther-Dietz. Pastoral Deities in Western India. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1993.

Sopher, George W., "Indian Pastoral Castes and Livestock Ecologies: A Geographic Analysis. " in Pastoralists and Nomads in South Asia, editors Lawrence S. and G. D. Sontheimer Leshnik. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1975.

Sopler, David E. ed. An Exploration of India: Geographical Perspectives on Society and Culture. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1980.

Spate, O. H. K. and A. T. A. Learmonth. India and Pakistan: A General and Regional Geography. London: Metheun, 1967.

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———. Twilight of The Mughals . London: 1951.

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