List of books about India

• Indica by Megasthenes, c. 300 BCE
• Ashokavadana, 2nd century CE
• Ain-i-Akbari, (Vol. 3 of Akbarnama). Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak. 16th century
• Padshah Nama, by Muhammad Amin Qazvini. 1646
• Firishta, Muhammad Qasim Hindu Shah Astarabadi; Tr. by Jonathan Scott (1794). Ferishta's History of Dekkan..(Vol. 1). John Stocksdale, London. http://www.archive.org/details/ferishtashistory01firi. 
• Firishta, Muhammad Qasim Hindu Shah Astarabadi; Tr. by Jonathan Scott (1794). Ferishta's History of Dekkan..(Vol. 2). John Stocksdale, London. http://www.archive.org/stream/ferishtashistory02firi#page/n3/mode/2up. 
• The History of British India, James Mill, 1818.
• Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, by James Tod, 2 vols. London, Smith, Elder (1829, 1832).
• Elphinstone, Mountstuart (1843 (First 1841)). The History of India (Vol. 1). London : J. Murray. http://www.archive.org/stream/historyofindia01elph#page/n3/mode/2up. 
• Elphinstone, Mountstuart (1841). The History of India (Vol. 2). London : J. Murray. http://www.archive.org/stream/thehistoryofin02elphiala#page/n5/mode/2up. 
• Hien, Fa; Tr. from the Chinese by Herbert A Giles (1877). Record of the Buddhistic Kingdoms By Fa Hien(414 AD). Trubner & Co., London. http://www.archive.org/stream/recordofbuddhist00faxirich#page/n5/mode/2up. 
• The History of India, as Told by Its Own Historians. The Muhammadan Period (1-8 Vols.), by H. M. Elliot, Ed. John Dowson , 1867-1877.
• The Imperial Gazetteer of India, 4 vols., (1881, 1908–1931)
• Hunter, William Wilson, Sir (1893). A Brief history of the Indian peoples. Oxford : Clarendon Press. http://www.archive.org/stream/briefhistoryindi00hunt#page/n7/mode/2up. 
• Lethbridge, Roper, Sir (1893). The History of India. London : Macmillan. http://www.archive.org/stream/historyofindia00lethiala#page/n7/mode/2up. 
• Feudge, Fannie Roper (1903). India. The Saalfield Publishing Company, Ohio. http://www.archive.org/stream/indiagorgeouseas00feudrich#page/n5/mode/2up. 
• Dutt, Romesh Chunder (1906). History of India: From the Earliest times to the Sixth century B.C (Vol. 1). London, Grolier society. http://www.archive.org/stream/historyofindia01jackuoft#page/n7/mode/2up. 
• Smith, Vincent Arthur (1906). History of India: From Sixth century B.C to Mohammedan Conquest (Vol. 2). London, Grolier society. http://www.archive.org/stream/historyofindia02jackiala#page/n9/mode/2up. 
• Lane-Poole, Stanley (1906). History of India: From Mohammedan Conquest to the Reign of Akbar the Great (Vol. 3). London, Grolier society. http://www.archive.org/stream/historyofindia03jackuoft#page/n9/mode/2up. 
• Lane-Poole, Stanley (1906). History of India: From Reign of Akbar the Great to the Fall of Moghul Empire (Vol. 4). London, Grolier society. http://www.archive.org/stream/historyofindia04jackuoft#page/n9/mode/2up. 
• Elliot, H. M. (1907). History of India: The Muhammadan Period as Described by Its Own Historians (Vol. 5). London, Grolier society. http://www.archive.org/stream/historyofindia05jackuoft#page/n11/mode/2up. 
• Hunter, William Wilson, Sir (1906). History of India: From the first European settlements to the founding of the English East India company (Vol. 6). London, Grolier society. http://www.archive.org/stream/historyofindia06jackuoft#page/n9/mode/2up. 
• Hunter, William Wilson, Sir (1906). History of India: The European struggle for Indian supremacy in the seventeenth century (Vol. 7). London, Grolier society. http://www.archive.org/stream/historyofindia07jackuoft#page/n9/mode/2up. 
• Lyall, A. C., Sir (1907). History of India: From the close of the seventeenth century to the present time (Vol. 8). London, Grolier society. http://www.archive.org/stream/historyofindia08jackuoft#page/n9/mode/2up. 
• Williams Jackson, A. V. (1907). History of India: Historic accounts of India by foreign travellers, classic, oriental, and occidental (Vol. 9). London, Grolier society. http://www.archive.org/stream/historyofindia09jackuoft#page/n9/mode/2up. 
• Sachau, Dr.Edward C. (1910). Alberuni's India - An account of ... India about A.D. 1030 (Vol. 1). Kegan Paul, Trench Trubner & Co.Ltd., London. http://www.archive.org/stream/alberunisindiaac01biru#page/n5/mode/2up. 
• Sachau, Dr.Edward C. (1910). Alberuni's India - An account of ... India about A.D. 1030 (Vol 2.). Kegan Paul, Trench Trubner & Co. Ltd., London. http://www.archive.org/stream/alberunisindiaac00biruiala#page/n5/mode/2up. 
• De La Fosse, C. F. (1918, Revised ed.). History of India. London : Macmillan & Co.. http://www.archive.org/stream/historyofindia00delarich#page/n5/mode/2up. 
• Rapson, Edward James (1922). The Cambridge History of India: Ancient India (Vol. 1). Cambridge University Press. http://www.archive.org/stream/cambridgehistory01rapsuoft#page/n7/mode/2up. 
• Haig, Wolseley, Sir (1928). The Cambridge History of India: Turks and Afghans (Vol. 3). Cambridge University Press. http://www.archive.org/stream/cambridgehistory03rapsuoft#page/ii/mode/2up. 
• Dodwell, H. H. (1929). The Cambridge History of India: British India, 1497-1858 (Vol. 5). Cambridge University Press. http://www.archive.org/stream/cambridgehistory05rapsuoft#page/n7/mode/2up. 
• Dodwell, H. H. (1932). The Cambridge History of India: The Indian Empire, 1858-1918 (Vol. 6). Cambridge University Press. http://www.archive.org/stream/cambridgehistory06rapsuoft#page/n7/mode/2up. 
• Bannerjee, Dr. Gauranganath (1921). India as known to the ancient world. Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, London. http://www.archive.org/stream/indiaasknowntoan00banerich#page/n3/mode/2up. 
• The Discovery of India, by Jawaharlal Nehru, 1946.
• The History and Culture of the Indian People, 11 vols, ed. R.C. Majumdar. (1951)