Eclectic Arcana

My Reading List
(Books in English)

General

  1. Priolkar, Anant Kakba, The Goa Inquisition, 1961, Bombay Univ. Press, Bombay 4.
  2. Campos, J. J. A. History of the Portuguese in Bengal, 1919, Butterworth & Co (India), Ltd., 6 Hastings St., Calcutta [also of London]
  3. MacRitcher, David, ed., Accounts of the Gypsies of India, 1886, Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., London. [Includes a description of the siege of Bharatpur]
  4. Gascoigne, Bamber, The Great Moguls, 1971, Harper & Row
  5. Shourie, Arun, Missionaries in India: Continuities, Changes, Dilemmas, 1994, Harper Collins Pub. India Pvt. Ltd.
  6. Pope, Maurice, The Story of Decipherment from Egyptian Hieroglyphic to Linear B, 1973, Thames and Hudson
  7. Choudhury, P C, The History of Civilization of the people of Assam to the 12th. Century A D, 1966, Dept. of Historical and Antiquarian Studies in Assam [Based on the Autor's Ph.D. Thesis]
  8. Ghulam Husain Salim, tr. Maulavi Abdus Salam, Riyazu-s-Salatin, History of Bengal, 1902, Asiatic Society of Bengal, 57 Park Street

    British Rule In India Including 1857

  9. Briggs, Lt. Gen. John, A Letter on the Indian Army, 1842, Wm H. Allen & Co., 1857, London. [Essay addressed to Marquess of Tweeddale]
  10. J J H Pickings from Old Indian Books, 1872, Higginbotham and Co., Madras.
  11. Dodwell, Henry The Nabobs of Madras, 1926, William and Northgate, Ltd., London.
  12. Woodruff, Philip The Men Who Ruled India, 2 volumes, 1964, Schoken Books, New York. [About British Imperialism]
  13. Brown, Hilton, ed. The Sahibs: The Life and Ways of the British in India as Recorded by Themselves, 1948, William Hodge & Co., Ltd., London.
  14. Rawlinson, H. G., ed. Personal Reminiscences in India and Europe, 1830 - 1888 of Augusta Becher, 1930, Constable & Co., Ltd., London.
  15. Kerr, James, The Domestic Life, Character, and Customs of the Natives of India, 1865, W. H. Allen & Co., London [author was the former Principal of the Hindoo College, Calcutta.]
  16. Smith, George, Stephen Hislop: Pioneer Missionary & Naturalist in Central India (From 1844 to 1863), 1889, John Murray, London
  17. Blechynden, Kathleen, Calcutta Past and Present, 1905, W. Thacker & Co. London
  18. A Hindu, The Mutinies and the People: Statements of Native Fidelity Exhibitied During the Outbreak of 1857-58,, 1905, "Bangabasi" Office, Calcutta
  19. Lawrence, Sir Henry, Essays on the Indian Army and Oude, 1859, "Friend of India" Press, Serampore.
  20. Temple, Sir Richard, Lord Lawrence (English Men of Action Series), 1889, McMillan & CO, London
  21. Cunningham, Sir H. S., Earl Canning (Rulers of India Series), 1892, Clarendon Press, Oxford
  22. Lowett, Maj. A. C. and MacMunn, Maj. G. F., The Armies of India, 1911, Adam and Charles Black, London, [Illustrated]
  23. Innes, Lt. General McLeod,The Sepoy Revolt: A Critical Narrative , 2nd. ed., 1897, A. D. Innes & Co., London.
  24. Gough, General Sir Hugh, Old Memories, 1897, William Blackwood and Sons, London.
  25. Younghusband, Col. G. J., The Story of the Guides, 1908, MacMillan & CO. Ltd., London. [Illustrated]
  26. Sedgwick, Capt. F. R., The Indian Mutiny of 1857: A Sketch of the Principal Military Events, Reprinted 1919, Foster Groom & Co. Ltd., London
  27. Gardner, Brian, The East India Company: A History, 1972, McCall Pub. Co., New York
  28. Allen, Charles, Soldier Sahibs: The Daring Adventurerers Who Tamed India's Northwest Frontier, 2000, Carroll & Graf Pub. Inc., New York
  29. Edwards, William, Personal Adventures during the Indian Rebellion , 1858, Smith, Elder & Co, London [Author was magistrate and collector of Budaon]
  30. Gubbins, Martin Richard Gubbins, BCS*, An Account of the Mutinies in Oudh and the Siege of the Lucknow Residency, 1858, Richard Bentley, London
  31. Sieveking, I Giberene, A Turning Point in the Indian Mutiny, 1910, David Nutt, London [About the Arrah Siege in 1857, and includes letters from John Nicholson to his family]
  32. Nick, N A, compiler, Hutchinson, David, Ed. Annals of the Indian Rebellion 1857-58, 1974, Charles Knight & Co., London.
    [Abridged version of book Complied by N A Nick in the the 19th. Cent.]
  33. Chaudhuri, S B Civil Rebellion in the Indian Mutinies 1857-59, 1957, The World Press Pvt. Ltd., Calcutta
  34. Dalrymple, William, White Moghuls, 2002, Penguin Books
  35. Dalrymple, William, The Last Moghul, Penguin Books
  36. Eden, Emily, Up the Country, 2 Vol., 1866, Richard Bentley, London
  37. Brown, Hilton, Ed., The Sahibs: The Life and Ways of the British in India as Recorded by Themselves, 1948, William Hodge & Co. Ltd., London
  38. Martineau, John, The Life and Correspondence of Sir Bartle Frere (2 volumes), 1895, John Murray, London
  39. Hennesy, Maurice The Rajah From Tipperary, 1971, Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd., London
  40. Visram, Rozina, People on the move: Indians in Britain , 1987, B. T. Batsford Ltd., London
  41. Anonymous, India before the Sepoy mutiny: A pictorial, descriptive, and historical account from the earliest times to the annexation of the Punjab , 1887, George Bell & Sons, Covent Garden, London [Based on the original by Julia Corner]
  42. Landon, Perceval, Under the Sun, Impressions of Indian Cities: With a Chapter Dealing with the Later Life of Nana Saheb, 1906, Hurst and Blackett, Ltd., London
  43. Smythe, Sir John, The Rebellious Rani , 1966, Frederick Muller Ltd., London
  44. Leighton, David, Vicissitudes of Fort St. George, 1902, A J Combridge & Co., Madras & Bombay
  45. Cardew, Sir Alexander, The White Mutiny: A forgotten Episode in the History of the Indian Army , 1929, Constable & Co. Ltd. London [Mutiny of the British Army]
  46. Taylor, P J O, Chronicles of the Mutiny, 1992, Indus Pub., Delhi, an Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, India, Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi

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Notes

* BCS - Bengal Civil Service
All comments in the square brackets [ ] are mine. They serve as brief annotations.

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