| Book Title | Author |
|---|
| The Wonder That Was India | A.L. Basham |
| The Discovery of India | Jawaharlal Nehru |
| Early India: From the Origins to AD 1300 | Romila Thapar |
| Ashoka and the Decline of the Mauryas | Romila Thapar |
| A History of Ancient and Early Medieval India | Upinder Singh |
| Medieval India: From Sultanate to the Mughals (Vol. I & II) | Satish Chandra |
| The Mughal Empire | J.F. Richards |
| India’s Islamic Traditions, 711-1750 | Richard M. Eaton |
| India After Gandhi | Ramachandra Guha |
| The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan | Yasmin Khan |
| The Indian Struggle | Subhas Chandra Bose |
| The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi 1857 | William Dalrymple |
| Freedom at Midnight | Dominique Lapierre & Larry Collins |
| The Economic History of India Under British Rule | R.C. Dutt |
| The Agrarian System of Mughal India | Irfan Habib |
| Indian Society and the Making of the British Empire | C.A. Bayly |
| The Argumentative Indian | Amartya Sen |
| The Idea of India | Sunil Khilnani |
| Annihilation of Caste | B.R. Ambedkar |
| Gendering Caste: Through a Feminist Lens | Uma Chakravarti |
| A History of South India | K.A. Nilakanta Sastri |
| Sikhs of the Punjab | J.S. Grewal |
| Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India | Shashi Tharoor |
| The Hindu Nationalist Movement in India | Christophe Jaffrelot |
| The Emergence of Modern India | Bipan Chandra |
| India’s Struggle for Independence | Bipan Chandra |
| The Crisis of Empire in Mughal North India | Muzaffar Alam |
| The Peasant Armed: The Indian Revolt of 1857 | Eric Stokes |
| Modern India: 1885–1947 | Sumit Sarkar |
| The Tribes and Castes of Bengal | H.H. Risley |
| A Corner of a Foreign Field | Ramachandra Guha |
