# Indian History Books

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- Date: 2020-05-27

## Important Indian History Authors

* [R C Majumdar](https://www.dharmadispatch.in/culture/remembering-acharya-ramesh-chandra-majumdar-a-century-of-spotless-scholarship-and-inspiration)
* Nilakantha Sastry


## Books

Many of these are available on [archive.org](https://archive.org).

### Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan

Chief editors: R C Majumdar and S Ramakrishnan

History and Culture of the Indian People, Volume 01, The Vedic Age
[archive.org link](https://archive.org/details/vedicage00bhar/page/n5/mode/2up)

History and Culture of the Indian People, Volume 02,The Age Of Imperial Unity
[archive.org link](https://archive.org/details/ageofimperialuni07bhar/mode/2up)


History and Culture of the Indian People, Volume 03, The Classical Age
[archive.org link](https://archive.org/details/classicalage03bhar/mode/2up)

History and Culture of the Indian People, Volume 04, The Age Of Imperial Kanauj
[archive.org link](https://archive.org/details/ageofimperialkan04bhar/mode/2up)

History and Culture of the Indian People, Volume 05, The Struggle For Empire
[archive.org link](https://archive.org/details/struggleforempir05bhar)

History and Culture of the Indian People, Volume 06,The Delhi Sultanate
[archive.org link](https://archive.org/details/delhisultanate00bhar)


History and Culture of the Indian People, Volume 07, The Mughul Empire
[archive.org link](https://archive.org/details/mughulempire00bhar)

History and Culture of the Indian People, Volume 08, The Maratha Supremacy
[archive.org link](https://archive.org/details/marathasupremacy08bhar)

History and Culture of the Indian People, Volume 10, British Paramountcy And Indian Renaissance, Part 2
[archive.org link](https://archive.org/details/britishparamount10bhar/mode/2up)

History and Culture of the Indian People, Volume 11, Struggle for Freedom, Part 1
[archive.org link](https://archive.org/details/struggleforfreed00bhar)


### South India

#### K A Nilakanta Sastri

Published by Oxford University Press

A History of South India by K A Nilakanta Sastri
[archive.org link](https://archive.org/details/southindianhistorynilakanthashastrioup_666_O/page/n3/mode/2up)

The cōḷas by K A Nilakanta Sastri
[archive.org link](https://archive.org/details/cholas1955univofmadrasnilakanthashastri_649_d/page/n7/mode/2up)

The Pandyan kingdom by K A Nilakanta Sastri
[archive.org link](https://archive.org/details/pandyankingdomnilakanthashastri_370_z/page/n3/mode/2up)

### Life in Ancient India

#### A L Basham

The Wonder That Was India
[archive.org link](https://archive.org/details/thewonderthatwasindiabashamseeculturalhistoryofindiaandajivikasgeographyfolderhinduism_275_s/mode/2up)

#### Radha Kumud Mookerji

Ancient Indian education
[archive.org link](https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.216828/page/n7/mode/2up)

Local Government in Ancient India
[archive.org link](https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.208205/page/n5/mode/2up)

State and government in Ancient India
[archive.org link](https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.547055/page/n3/mode/2up)


#### R C Majumdar

Corporate life in Ancient India
[archive.org link](https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.30812/page/n7/mode/2up)

#### A S Altekar

Education in Ancient India
[archive.org link](https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.207505/page/n7/mode/2up)


#### Vasudev S Agrawala

- [Wheel flag of India chakra-dhvaja : Agrawala, Vasudeva Sharana](https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.53134/mode/1up) [via](https://archive.ph/mJkuO)

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The above page was a result of a [twitter discussion on May 25, 2020](https://x.com/KushagraAniket/status/1264761269887864833), the person asking
for recommendation finally settled on these books:

* Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Series: History and Culture of the Indian People (11 volumes)
* The Wonder That Was India (A.L. Basham)
* South Indian History (Neelakantha Sastry)
* Land of the Sever Rivers (Sanjeev Sanyal)
* Ancient India (R.C. Majumdar)
* Medieval India (J.L. Mehta)
* Modern India (Shekhar Bandopadhyaya)



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