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Constitutional documents

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• Constitution of India
• Indian Independence Act 1947 (transcription project)
• East India Company Act, 1767 and 1773: contained in Speeches & Documents on Indian Policy, 1750-1921 Vol 1 by Arthur Berriedale Keith (transcription project)
• Government of India Act 1858: contained in Speeches & Documents on Indian Policy, 1750-1921 Vol 1 by Arthur Berriedale Keith
• Government of India Act 1915 (Annotated) (transcription project)
• Government of India Act 1919: contained in Speeches & Documents on Indian Policy, 1750-1921 Vol 2 by Arthur Berriedale Keith (transcription project)
• Government of India Act 1935 (transcription project)
• Indian Constitutional Documents 1773-1915 ed. Panchanandas Mukherji (transcription project)
• Hindu Marriage Act, 1955
• Hindu Minority and Guardianship Act 1956 (transcription project)
• Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act 1956 (transcription project)
• Hindu Succession Act 1956 (transcription project)
• Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act (India) 1971 (transcription project)
• Pre-natal Diagnostic Techniques (Regulation and Prevention of Misuse) Act (India) 1994 (transcription project)
• Transplantation of Human Organs Act (India) 1994 (transcription project)
• Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act (India) 1985 (transcription project)
• Mental Health Act (India) 1987 (transcription project)
• National Highways Act, 1956 and Schedule thereto (updated) (transcription project)
• Amendments to the National Highways Act, 1956 and Schedule thereto (transcription project)
• Copyright law of India
• Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (1958) (transcription project)
• Armed Forces (Special Powers) Regulation 1958 (transcription project)
• Flag Code of India (2002)
• Geneva Conventions Act 1960 (transcription project)
• British Statutes (Application to India) Repeal Act 1960 (transcription project)
• Indian Councils Act, 1861, 1892 and 1909: contained in Speeches & Documents on Indian Policy, 1750-1921 Vol 2 by Arthur Berriedale Keith
• Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act (India) 1986 (transcription project)
• Environment (Protection) Act (India) 1986 (transcription project)
• Consumer Protection Act (India) 1986 (transcription project)
• Representation of the People Act (India) 1951 (transcription project)
• The Representation of the People (Amendment) Act, 1991 (transcription project)
• Right to Information Act (India) 2005 (transcription project)
• Ancient Monuments and Archæological Sites & Remains Act 1958 (transcription project)
• Persons with Disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act 1995 (transcription project)
• Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act 1987 (transcription project)
• Code of Criminal Procedure (India) 1973 (transcription project)
• Wild Life (Protection) Act (India) 1972 (transcription project)
• Patents Act 1970 (transcription project)
• The Anti-Apartheid (United Nations Convention) Act 1981
• National Building Code of India 2005 (transcription project)
• Indian Evidence Act 1872
• Official Languages Act, 1963 (transcription project)
• The Central Goods and Services Tax Act 2017 (transcription project)
• Statutory Order 3407 (E) (Demonetisation Order, India) (2016) (transcription project)
• Sashastra Seema Bal Act (2007) (transcription project)
• Dowry Prohibition Act (1961) (transcription project)
• The Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Ordinance (2018) (transcription project)
• National Data Sharing and Accessibility Policy (2012) (transcription project)
• Government Open Data License (2017) (transcription project)
• Motor Vehicles (Driving) Regulations, 2017 (transcription project)
• Simla manifesto (1838)
• Rulers of India series
• The Indian Biographical Dictionary (1915) edited by C. Hayavadana Rao
• Dictionary of Indian Biography (1906) by Charles Edward Buckland‎
• Who's Who in India Supplement 1 (1912) (transcription project)
• Who's Who in India Supplement 2 (1914) (transcription project)
• The Golden Book of India, a genealogical and biographical dictionary of the ruling princes, chiefs, nobles, and other personages, titled or decorated, of the Indian empire (1893) by Roper Lethbridge (transcription project)
• The Oriental Biographical Dictionary (1881) by Thomas William Beale (transcription project)
• Reminiscences and Anecdotes of Great Men of India by Ram Gopal Sanyal Vol 1 (1894) (transcription project), Vol 2 (1895) (transcription project)
• The Bengal Obituary (2nd ed, 1851) (transcription project)
• Biographical Sketches of Dekkan Poets (1829) by Kavali Venkata Ramaswami (transcription project)
• Chaitanya's Life and Teachings (1922) by Jadunath Sarkar (transcription project)
• Buddha - his life, his teachings, his order (1901) by Manmatha Nath Dutt (transcription project)
• The Harṣa-carita of Bāṇa (1897) tr. by Edward Byles Cowell and Frederick William Thomas (transcription project)
• Shivaji and His Times (1920) by Jadunath Sarkar (transcription project)
• How People May Live and not Die in India (1864) by Florence Nightingale
• The opium revenue (1875) by William Muir
• Our Indian Stewardship (1883) by Florence Nightingale
• The leather-workers of Daryaganj (1884) by George Alfred Lefroy
• Archer, Major, Tours in Upper India, London, 1833.
• Higher Education in India, by Raymond West, pre-1899
• Pre-Mussalman India, 1917 by M. S. Nateson (start transcription)
• Observations on the Mussulmauns of India [1], 1917 by Mrs. Meer Hassan Ali
• Antiquities of India, (1913) by Lionel David Barnett
• Pioneers in India, by Harry Johnston
• Bengal in 1756-57 Vol. 1 (1905) by Samuel Charles Hill (transcription project)
• A Few Facts about British Rule in India (1915) by The Hindustan Gadar Office IA
• The Post Office of India and its story (1921) by Geoffrey Rothe Clarke (transcription project)
• "The Indian Army," by Edwin H. H. Collen in The Empire and the century (pp. 663−681), London: John Murray (1905)
• "Indian Education," by Theodore Morison in The Empire and the century (pp. 696−706), London: John Murray (1905)
• "Our True Relationship with India," by Francis Younghusband in The Empire and the century (pp. 599−620), London: John Murray (1905)
• "India: Past, Present, and Future," by Charles Crosthwaite in The Empire and the century (pp. 621−650), London: John Murray (1905)
• The Land of the Veda (1895) by William Butler
• Winter India (1903) by Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore (transcription project)
• Imperial India — An Artist's Journals (1879) by Valentine Cameron Prinsep (transcription project)
• "India," in The Nuttall Encyclopædia, (ed.) by James Wood, London: Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd. (1907)
• "India," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "India, French," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "India," in Catholic Encyclopedia, (ed.) by Charles G. Herbermann and others, New York: The Encyclopaedia Press (1913)
• "India," in The World Factbook, (ed.) by CIA (1982)
• "India," in The World Factbook, (ed.) by CIA (1990)
• "India," in CIA World Fact Book, (ed.) by CIA (2004)
• Provincial Geographies of India edited by Thomas Henry Holland v. 1 • v. 2 • v. 3 • v. 4
• Portal:Bengal
• Portal:Calcutta
• Sikhim and Bhutan (1909) by John Claude White (transcription project)
• An Account of the Manufacture of the Black Tea, as now practised at Suddeya in Upper Assam, by the Chinamen sent thither for that purpose (1838) by Charles Alexander Bruce
• Gujarát and the Gujarátis by Behramji Malabari (1882)
• Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan by James Tod, ed. William Crooke (1920)
  • Vol 1 (transcription project)
  • Vol 2 (transcription project)
  • Vol 3 (transcription project)
• An Historical Account of the Settlement and Possession of Bombay (1781) by Samuel Pechel (transcription project)
• The Lucknow Album (1874) by Darogha Ubbas Alli (transcription project)
• The Chiefs of Central India Vol 1 (1879) by George Robert Aberigh-Mackay (transcription project)
• The tourist's guide to Lucknow (1899) by Edward Henry Hilton (transcription project)
• Rajatarangini by Kalhana and others
• • Translation by Jogesh Chandra Dutt
    * Vol 1 (transcription project)
    * Vol 2 (transcription project)
    * Vol 3 (transcription project)
• • Translation by Marc Aurel Stein
    * Vol 1 (transcription project)
    * Vol 2 (transcription project)
• Views in India, chiefly among the Himalaya Mountains (1838) by George Francis White (transcription project)
  • • Climbing on the Himalaya and Other Mountain Ranges (1902) by John Norman Collie (transcription project)
• The Garden of India (1880) by Henry Crossley Irwin (transcription project)
• The Seven Cities of Delhi (1906) by Gordon Risley Hearn (transcription project)
• The Maharaja of Cashmere (1893) by Jogendra Chandra Bose (transcription project)
• The Wars of the Rajas, being the History of Anantapuram (1853) by Charles Philip Brown (transcription project)
• Early History of the Dekkan (3rd ed., 1928; 1st ed: 1884) by Ramkrishna Gopal Bhandarkar (transcription project)
• The Tamils Eighteen Hundred Years Ago (1904) by Visvanatha Kanakasabhai Pillai (transcription project)
• Historic Landmarks of the Deccan (1907) by Thomas Wolseley Haig (transcription project)
• Ancient History of the Deccan (1920) by Gabriel Jouveau-Dubreuil, tr. V. S. Swaminadha Dikshitar (transcription project)
• Tamil Nadu Government Servants Conduct Rules, 1973
• The Madras Famine - 1898
• Life in India or Madras, the Neilgherries, and Calcutta - 1855 \
• Tamil Proverbs
• The Kural or the Maxims of Tiruvalluvar
• The Beginnings of South Indian history (transcription project)
• A classified collection of Tamil proverbs (transcription project)
• Omens and superstitions of southern India (transcription project)
• Observations on the disturbances in the Madras army in 1809 (transcription project)
• History of education in the Madras Presidency (transcription project)
• Missions in South India (transcription project)
• The Chronology Of The Early Tamils (transcription project)
• A Sketch of the Dynasties of Southern India (transcription project)
• History of the Tamils from the earliest times to 600 A.D (transcription project)
• Memories of Madras (transcription project)
• In old madras (transcription project)
• The Civilian's South India-Some Places and People in Madras (transcription project)
• The ferns of southern India. Being descriptions and plates of the ferns of the Madras presidency (transcription project)
• An introduction to Dravidian philology (transcription project)
• Madras in the olden time Volume 1 (transcription project)
• Madras in the olden time Volume 2 (transcription project)
• Madras in the olden time Volume 3 (transcription project)
• Catalogue of the prehistoric antiquities from Adichanallur and Perumbair (transcription project)
• Pre-Aryan Tamil Culture (transcription project)
• Agastya in the Tamil land (transcription project)
• New Light Upon Indian Philosophy (transcription project)
• War in ancient India (transcription project)
• Origin and spread of the Tamils (transcription project)
• Ancient Temples Of Tamilnadu (transcription project)
• Tamil studies (transcription project)
• Papers in Tamil Literature (transcription project)
• The Historical Study Of The Thevaram Hymns (transcription project)
• A Bibliography on Thirukkural (transcription project)
• Thus spake-The Buddha-sayings of Buddha (transcription project)
• A study of the literature-cera country-up to elevanth century (transcription project)
• The story of saiva saints (transcription project)
• Cilappadikaram: The Earliest Tamil Epic
• Manimekhalai in its historical setting (transcription project)
• White Paper on Indian States 1948 (transcription project) 1950 (transcription project)
• Report of the Indian States Committee (Butler Committee), 1928-29 (1929) (transcription project)
• Instrument of Accession and Standstill Agreement to Dominion of India (1947)
  • Udaipur (transcription project)
  • Jammu and Kashmir (transcription project)
  • Mysore (transcription project)
  • Manipur (transcription project)
• A Collection of Treaties, Engagements and Sanads relating to India and Neighbouring Countries (4th ed, 1909) by Charles Umpherston Aitchison
  • Vol 1 (United Provinces, Oudh, Bengal, Central Provinces) (transcription project)
  • Vol 2 (Burma, Nepal, Eastern Bengal & Assam, Bhutan, Sikkim, Tibet, Siam, Eastern Archipelago): Chunk 1 (transcription project), Chunk 2 (transcription project)
  • Vol 3 (Rajputana) (transcription project)
  • Vol 4 (Central India Agency, Part 1: Mediatized Chiefs) (transcription project)
  • Vol 5 (Central India Agency, Part 2: Bundelkhand and Baghelkhand) (transcription project)
  • Vol 6 (Bombay Presidency, Part 1: the Peshwa, Kathiawar Agency, Palanpur Agency, Mahi Kantha Agency, Rewa Kantha Agency) (transcription project)
  • Vol 7 (Bombay Presidency, Part 2: Kutch Agency, Cambay, Surat Agency, Jauhar, Janjira, Satara Jagirdars, Kolhapur and Southern Maratha Country Agency, Sawantwari Savanur Nasik Agency, Sind and Lapsed States) (transcription project)
  • Vol 8 (Baroda and the Punjab) (transcription project)
  • Vol 9 (Hyderabad, Mysore, Coorg) (transcription project)
  • Vol 10 (Madras and Ceylon) (transcription project)
  • Vol 11 (North-west Frontier Province, Baluchistan, Jammu & Kashmir, Eastern Turkistan, Afghanistan) DLI (transcription project)
  • Vol 12 (Persia, Arab Principalities in the Persian Gulf, Oman) (transcription project)
  • Vol 13 (Turkish Arabia, Aden & South Coast of Arabia, Somaliland, R. Shoa, Zanzibar) IA
  • Vol 14 (1929) (Eastern Turkistan, Tibet, Nepal, Bhutan, Siam) IA
• An Historical Sketch of the Native States of India (1875) by George Bruce Malleson (transcription project)
• The Autobiography of an Indian Princess (1921) by Suniti Devi (transcription project)
• India and Its Native Princes (1882) by Louis-Théophile Marie Rousselet (transcription project)
• The Native States of India (1910) by William Lee-Warner (transcription project)

Portuguese, French, Dutch and Danes in India

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• A Tentative List of Books and Some Manuscripts Relating to the History of the Portuguese in India Proper, 1880 by Arthur Coke Burnell (transcription project)
• History of the Portuguese in Bengal (1919) by Joachim Joseph A. Campos (transcription project)
• Final French Struggles in India and on the Indian Seas (1878) by George Bruce Malleson (transcription project)
• History of the French in India (1893) by George Bruce Malleson (transcription project)

Race, Caste and Tribe

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• William Crooke
• Robert Vane Russell
• Castes and Tribes of Southern India by Edgar Thurston (transcription project)
• The People of India — a series of photographic illustrations, with descriptive letterpress, of the races and tribes of Hindustan (1868-75), ed. John Forbes Watson and John William Kaye (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)

Social Sciences and History

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Single volume works

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• Prehistoric Ancient and Hindu India (1934) by Rakhaldas Bandyopadhyay (transcription project)
• A Few Facts about British Rule in India, 1915
• Corporal Punishment in India, pre-1907 by Henry Cotton
• Indian Home Rule (Hind Swaraj), 1908 (1922 edition) by Mohandas K. Gandhi
• A Brief History of the Indian Peoples (1895) by William Wilson Hunter (transcription project)
• Indian National Evolution (1917) by Amvika Charan Mazumdar (transcription project)
• Corporate Life in Ancient India (1922) by Ramesh Chandra Majumdar (transcription project)
• The Story of India (1897) by Demetrius Charles Boulger (transcription project)
• Notes on Indian History (664-1858) by Karl Marx IA Google Books
• The Beginning of Hindu Culture as World-power (A.D. 300-600) (1916) by Benoy Kumar Sarkar (transcription project)
• Hindu Superiority (1906) by Har Bilas Sarda (transcription project)
• Ancient India, 2000 B.C.-800 A.D. (1904) by Romesh Chunder Dutt (transcription project)
• India as known to the Ancient World (1921) by Gauranga Nath Bandyopadhyay (transcription project)
• Footfalls of Indian History (1915) by Sister Nivedita (transcription project)
• The Age of the Imperial Guptas (1933) by Rakhaldas Bandyopadhyay (transcription project)
• The Ruling Races of Prehistoric Times in India, Southwestern Asia and Southern Europe (1894) by James Francis Katherinus Hewitt (transcription project)
• The Decisive Battles of India (1914) by George Bruce Malleson (transcription project)
• The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology (1914) by Benoy Kumar Sarkar (transcription project)
• A History of the Indian Nationalist Movement (1920) by Verney Lovett (transcription project)
• Early English Adventurers in the East (1917) by Arnold Wright
• The Land of the Veda (1895) by William Butler
• Ancient India (1911) by Sakkottai Krishnaswamy Aiyangar
• Bengal under the Lieutenant-Governors (1901) by Charles Edward Buckland: Vol 1 (transcription project), Vol 2 (transcription project)
• A History of Civilisation in Ancient India based on Sanscrit Literature (1893) by Romesh Chunder Dutt Vol 1 (transcription project), Vol 2 (transcription project)
• History of India (1906-07) ed. Abraham Valentine Williams Jackson
  • Vol 1 by Romesh Chunder Dutt (transcription project)
  • Vol 2 by Vincent Arthur Smith (transcription project)
  • Vol 3 by Stanley Lane-Poole (transcription project)
  • Vol 4 by Stanley Lane-Poole (transcription project)
  • Vol 5 by Henry Miers Elliot (transcription project)
  • Vol 6 by William Wilson Hunter (transcription project)
  • Vol 7 by William Wilson Hunter (transcription project)
  • Vol 8 by Alfred Comyn Lyall (transcription project)
  • Vol 9 by Abraham Valentine Williams Jackson (transcription project)
• A Comprehensive History of India by Henry Beveridge
  • Vol 1 (transcription project)
  • Vol 2 (transcription project)
  • Vol 3 (transcription project)
• History of Mediæval Hindu India by Chintaman Vinayak Vaidya
  • Vol 1 (1921) ((transcription project)
  • Vol 2 (1924) (transcription project)
  • Vol 3 (1926) (transcription project)
• The History of India, as Told by Its Own Historians: The Muhammadan Period by Henry Miers Elliot
  • Vol 1 (transcription project)
  • Vol 2 (start transcription)
  • Vol 3 (start transcription)
  • Vol 4 (start transcription)
  • Vol 5 (start transcription)
  • Vol 6 (start transcription)
  • Vol 7 (start transcription)
  • Vol 8 (start transcription)

Accounts of foreign travellers

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• Ancient India as described by Megasthenês and Arrian (1877) by John Watson McCrindle: (transcription project)
• The Book of Ser Marco Polo, the Venetian, concerning the kingdoms and marvels of the East tr. Henry Yule (3rd ed)
  • Vol 1 (transcription project)
  • Vol 2 (transcription project)
  • Notes and addenda by Henri Cordier (transcription project)
• India in the Fifteenth Century, being a Collection of Narratives of Voyages to India (1857) by Richard Henry Major (transcription project)
• Record of the Buddhistic Kingdoms by Faxian, tr. Herbert Allen Giles (transcription project)
• Alberuni's India tr. Eduard Carl Sachau (1910) Vol 1 (transcription project), Vol 2 (transcription project)
• Si-yu-ki, Buddhist Records of the Western World by Xuanzang, tr. Samuel Beal (1884) Vol 1 (transcription project), Vol 2 (transcription project)
• A Record of the Buddhist Religion as practised in India and the Malay Archipelago by Yijing, tr. Takakusu Junjiro (1896) (transcription project)
• The Six Voyages of John Baptista Tavernier tr. John Phillips (1678) (transcription project)
• Travels in the Mogul Empire, A.D. 1656-1668 by François Bernier tr. Archibald Constable (1916) (transcription project)
• The Voyage of Nearchus and the Periplus of the Erythrean Sea (1809) tr. William Vincent (transcription project)
• The Periplus of the Erythræan Sea (1912) tr. Wilfred Harvey Schoff (transcription project)
• The Voyage of Nearchus from the Indus to the Euphrates (1797) tr. William Vincent (transcription project)
• The Three Voyages of Vasco da Gama and His Viceroyalty by Gaspar Corrêa tr. Henry Edward John Stanley (1869) (transcription project)
• Ancient Accounts of India and China (1733) by Abu Zayd Hassan ibn Yazid Sirafi and Sulaiman al-Tajir, translated by Eusèbe Renaudot (transcription project)
• Voyages to the East-Indies (1798) by Johan Splinter Stavorinus, tr. Samuel Hull Wilcocke, Vol 1 (transcription project), Vol 2 (transcription project)

Epigraphs and Inscriptions

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• Epigraphia Indica (transcription project)
• The Indian Antiquary
• Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum
  • Vol 1 (Inscriptions of Ashoka)
  • Vol 2
    * Part 1 (Kharoshthi Inscriptions)
    * Part 2 (Bharhut Inscriptions) IA
  • Vol 3 (Inscriptions of the early Gupta kings and their successors) (1888) by John Faithfull Fleet (commonly known as Fleet's Gupta Inscriptions) (external scan)
  • Vol 4 (Inscription of the Kalachuri-Chedi Era)
    * Part 1
    * Part 2
  • Vol 5 (Inscriptions of the Vakatakas)
  • Vol 6 (Inscriptions of Silaharas)
  • Vol 7 (3 parts) (Inscriptions of the Paramaras, Chandellas, Kachchapaghatas and two minor Dynasity)

Mathematics and Sciences

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• A History of Hindu Chemistry by Prafulla Chandra Ray
  • Vol 1 (1902)
  • Vol 2 (1909) (transcription project)
• Indian Mathematics (1915) by George Rusby Kaye
• Hindu astronomy (1896) by William Brennand (transcription project)
• Commentary on the Hindu System of Medicine (1845) by Thomas Alexander Wise (transcription project)
• Hindu Achievements in Exact Science (1918) by Benoy Kumar Sarkar (transcription project)
• The Materia Medica of the Hindus (1877) by Uday Chand Dutt (transcription project)
• The Surgical Instruments of the Hindus by Girindranath Mukhopadhyay
  • Vol 1 (1913) (transcription project)
  • Vol 2 (1914) (transcription project)
• Sushruta Samhita tr. by Kunja Lal Bhishagratna
  • Vol 1 (1907) (transcription project)
  • Vol 2 (1911) (transcription project)
  • Vol 3 (1916) (transcription project)
• Geology of India, for students (1919) by Darashaw Nosherwan Wadia (transcription project)
• Descriptive Ethnology of Bengal (1872) by Edward Tuite Dalton (transcription project)
• A Historical View of the Hindu Astronomy (1825) by John Bentley (transcription project)
• The Āryabhaṭīya of Āryabhaṭa (1930), tr. Walter Eugene Clark (transcription project)
• Pharmacopoeia of India (1868) by Edward John Waring (transcription project)
• A Short History of Aryan Medical Science (1896) by Bhagvat Singh (transcription project)
• Surya Siddhanta and Siddhanta Siromani by Bhaskaracharya (transcription project)
• A History of the Indian Medical Service, 1600-1913 (1914) by Dirom Grey Crawford (Vol 1, Vol 2)
• Life or Death in India (1874) by Florence Nightingale
• An Essay on the Antiquity of Hindoo Medicine (1837) by John Forbes Royle (transcription project)

Archaeology and Architecture

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• Epigraphia Indica
• History of Indian and Eastern Architecture (1910) by James Fergusson
  • Vol 1 (transcription project)
  • Vol 2 (transcription project)
• The Rock-cut Temples of India (1864) by James Fergusson (transcription project)
• The Cave Temples of India (1880) by James Fergusson (transcription project)
• Tea Producing Companies of India & Ceylon, (1897) (transcription project)
• The Economic History of India Under Early British Rule, by Romesh Chunder Dutt (transcription project)
• India in the Victorian Age - an economic history of the people by Romesh Chunder Dutt (transcription project)
• Indian Shipping, a history of the sea-borne trade and maritime activity of the Indians from the earliest times (1912) by Radha Kumud Mukhopadhyay (transcription project)
• Indian Currency and Finance (1913) by John Maynard Keynes
• An essay on Indian economics (transcription project)
• A Code of Gentoo Laws by Nathaniel Brassey Halhed, (1776) (transcription project)
• The Principles of Hindu Law by Jogendra Chandra Ghose: Vol 1 (1917) (transcription project), Vol 2 (1917) DLI, Vol 3 (1919) Google Books
• Hindu Castes and Sects (1896) by Jogendra Nath Bhattacharya (transcription project)
• Vyavasthá-Darpana, a digest of Hindu Law (1883) by Shyamacharan Sarkar (transcription project)

Astrology, Palmistry

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• Indian Palmistry (1895) by Mrs. J. B. Dale

Languages and literature

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• Hindu Art - its Humanism and Modernism (1920) by Benoy Kumar Sarkar (transcription project)
• A Handbook of Indian Art (1920) by Ernest Binfield Havell (transcription project)
• Love in Hindu Literature (1916) by Benoy Kumar Sarkar (transcription project)
• Gleanings from Indian Classics (1893) by Manmatha Nath Dutt (transcription project)
• A Comparative Grammar of the Modern Aryan Languages of India by John Beames
  • Vol 1 (1872) (transcription project)
  • Vol 2 (1875) (transcription project)
  • Vol 3 (1879) (transcription project)
• On the Non-Aryan Languages of India (1878) by Edward Lyall Brandreth (transcription project)
• A Table of the Aryan Languages (1874) by Henry Attwell (transcription project)
• A History of Hindī Literature (1920) by Frank Ernest Keay (transcription project)
• Assamese-Its formation and development (1941) by Banikanta Kakati (transcription project)
• Portal:Sanskrit
• Portal:Indo-Iranian languages and literature
• Portal:Dravidian languages and literature
• Bengali literature
• Bengali language
• Tamil language

Religion and Philosophy

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• Portal:Hinduism
• The rise, decline and renewals of Sramanic religious traditions within the Indic civilisation with particular reference to the evolution of Jain sramanic culture and its impact on the Indic civilisation (2003) by Bal Patil
• Gospel of Buddha (1917) by Paul Carus (transcription project)
• South-Indian Images of Gods and Goddesses (1916) by Hosakote Krishna Sastri (transcription project)
• The Gods of India (1914) by Edward Osborn Martin (transcription project)
• Science of Breath by Yogi Ramacharaka (transcription project)
• The Religions of India (1882) by Auguste Barth (transcription project)
• Hatha Yoga Pradipika (1915) by Swami Swatmarama
• Hatha Yoga by Yogi Ramacharaka
• Yoga Sutras by Patanjali

See also

• Portal:Buddhism
• Portal:Islam
• Portal:Sikhism
• On the Origin of Hindu Festivals (1869) by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
• Hindu Holidays and Ceremonials (1916) by Balkrishna Atmaram Gupte (transcription project)
• Durga Puja - With Notes and Illustrations (1871) by Pratap Chandra Ghosh (transcription project)
• The Mythology of All Races Vol 6 (Indian and Iranian) (1917) by Arthur Berriedale Keith and Albert Joseph Carnoy (transcription project)
• Hindu Mythology, Vedic and Purānic (1913) by William Joseph Wilkins (transcription project)
• Myths of the Hindus & Buddhists (1914) by Sister Nivedita and Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy, illustrated by Abanindranath Tagore (transcription project)
• Stories of India's Gods & Heroes (1911) by William Douglas Monro
• Indian Myth and Legend (1913) by Donald Alexander Mackenzie (transcription project)
• Tales from the Indian Epics (1918) by Charles Augustus Kincaid
• Cradle Tales of Hinduism (1917) by Sister Nivedita (transcription project)
• Folk-tales of Bengal (1912) by Lal Behari Dey, ill. Warwick Goble
• Bengali Household Tales (1912) by William McCulloch (transcription project)
• Bengal Fairy Tales (1920) by Francis Bradley Bradley-Birt, ill. Abanindranath Tagore
• Indian Fairy Tales
• Old Deccan Days (1898) by Mary Eliza Isabella Frere
• Deccan Nursery Tales (1914) by Charles Augustus Kincaid (transcription project)
• Things Indian (1906) by William Crooke (transcription project)
• An Introduction to the Popular Religion and Folklore of Northern India by William Crooke (transcription project)
• The Talking Thrush, and other tales from India (1922) by William Henry Denham Rouse and William Crooke (transcription project)
• Romantic Tales from the Panjáb (1903) by Charles Swynnerton (transcription project)
• The Adventures of the Panjáb Hero Rájá Rasálu, and other folk-tales of the Panjáb (1884) by Charles Swynnerton (transcription project)
• Indian Nights' Entertainment or, Folk-tales from the Upper Indus (1892) by Charles Swynnerton (transcription project)
• Santal Folk Tales (1891) by Andrew Campbell (transcription project)
• Folk-tales of Kashmir (1888) by James Hinton Knowles (transcription project)
• Tales of the Sun (1890) by Adeline Georgiana Isabel Kingscote and Sangendhi Mahalingam Natesa Sastri (transcription project)
• Views in India, chiefly among the Himalaya Mountains (1838) by George Francis White
• Twenty-four plates illustrative of Hindoo and European Manners in Bengal (1832) by Sophie Charlotte Belnos and Alexandre-Marie Colin
• The Sundhya, or, the Daily Prayers of the Brahmins (1851) by Sophie Charlotte Belnos
• Oriental Scenery — One Hundred and Fifty Views of the Architecture, Antiquities, and Landscape Scenery of Hindoostan (1816) by Thomas Daniell and William Daniell
• A Collection of Two Hundred and Fifty Coloured Etchings Descriptive of the Manners, Customs and Dresses of the Hindoos (1799) by François Balthazar Solvyns (transcription project)
• Indian Medicinal Plants (1918) by Kanhoba Ranchoddas Kirtikar and Baman Das Basu
  • Text: Part 1 (transcription project), Part 2 (transcription project)
  • Plates: Vol 1 (transcription project), Vol 2 (transcription project), Vol 3 (transcription project), Vol 4 (transcription project), Vol 5 (transcription project)
• The Flora of British India by Joseph Dalton Hooker
  • Vol 1 (transcription project)
  • Vol 2 (transcription project)
  • Vol 3 (transcription project)
  • Vol 4 (transcription project)
  • Vol 5 (transcription project)
  • Vol 6 (transcription project)
  • Vol 7 (transcription project)
• Cleghorn, Hugh Francis Clarke (1861). The Forests and Gardens of South India. London: W. H. Allen.
• Himalayan journals; or, Notes of a naturalist in Bengal, the Sikkim and Nepal Himalayas, the Khasia Mountains, &c. (1854) by Joseph Dalton Hooker (Vol 1, Vol 2)
  • Plants of the coasts of Coromandel (3 volumes, 1795-1819)
• Flora Indica, or, Descriptions of Indian plants by William Roxburgh (ed. William Carey) (1832)
  • Vol 1 (start transcription)
  • Vol 2 (start transcription)
  • Vol 3 (transcription project)
• Illustrations of Indian Botany (1840) by Robert Wight
  • Vol 1 (transcription project)
  • Vol 2 (transcription project)
• The Birds of India by Thomas Caverhill Jerdon
  • Vol 1 (transcription project)
  • Vol 2 (transcription project)
  • Vol 3 (transcription project)
• Beast and Man in India (1904) by John Lockwood Kipling (transcription project)
• The Game Animals of India, Burma, Malaya and Tibet (1907) by Richard Lydekker (transcription project)
• Illustrations of Indian Ornithology (1847) by Thomas Caverhill Jerdon (transcription project)
• The Mammals of India (1874) by Thomas Caverhill Jerdon (transcription project)
• Birds of an Indian Garden (1924) by Fletcher, T. B. and C. M. Inglis IA
• Indian Insect Pests (1906) by Harold Maxwell-Lefroy IA
• Marshall, G. F. L. and de Nicéville, L., Butterflies of India, Burmah and Ceylon.
  • Vol. 1. 1882 (transcription project)
  • Vol. 2. 1886 (transcription project)
  • Vol. 3. 1890 (transcription project)
• Mammals of India (1864) by Samuel Richard Tickell (transcription project) (actually pertains to Burma/Myanmar)
• Illustrations of Indian Zoology, Vol. 1 (1832) by John Edward Gray and Thomas Hardwicke (transcription project)

Fauna of British India

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• The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma: a massive project undertaken by the British government in India.
  • Birds
    * Vol 1 by Edward Charles Stuart Baker (transcription project)
    * Vol 2 by Eugene William Oates (transcription project)
    * Vol 3 by William Thomas Blanford (transcription project)
    * Vol 4 by William Thomas Blanford (transcription project)
  • Reptilia and Batrachia by George Albert Boulenger (transcription project)
  • Butterflies by Charles Thomas Bingham
    * Vol 1 (transcription project)
    * Vol 2 (transcription project)
  • Mammalia by William Thomas Blanford (transcription project)
  • Fishes by Francis Day
    * Vol 1 (transcription project)
    * Vol 2 (transcription project)
  • Moths by George Francis Hampson
    * Vol 1 (transcription project)
    * Vol 2 (transcription project)
    * Vol 3 (transcription project)
    * Vol 4 (transcription project)

Journals and magazines

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• Asiatic Society of Bengal
  • Asiatic researches, or, Transactions of the Society instituted in Bengal for inquiring into the history and antiquities, the arts, sciences and literature of Asia (external scan) (Vol 1)
  • Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal (external scan)
  • Journal and Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal (external scan)
  • Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal (external scan) (Also here)
  • Memoirs of the Asiatic Society of Bengal (external scan)
• The Hindu
• Madras Journal of Literature and Science
• Indian Journal of Economics Volume 2
• Journal of the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society
  • Old series 1841 to 1924 (external scan)
  • New series 1925 - 2013 (external scan)
• Rupam, the journal of the Indian Society of Oriental Art (Vols. 2, 3, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)

India in Literature

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• Olivia in India (1922) by O. Douglas (transcription project)
• Philip Meadows Taylor
• India by Florence Earle Coates
• Hira Singh: When India Came to Fight in Flanders by Talbot Mundy
• A Passage to India (1924) by E. M. Forster
• The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India (1776) by Luís de Camões, tr. William Julius Mickle (transcription project)
• Crawfurd Treaty (2 August 1824), Sultanate of Johore and British East India Company
• Durand Line Agreement (1853)
• Agreement on Trade and Intercourse between the Tibet Region of China and India (17 August 1954)
• Indo-Soviet Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation (1971)
• Simla Treaty (1972)
• India-China Border Agreement 2012
• India-China Border Agreement 2013
• Treaties of India (2018) (transcription project)
• Portal:Parliament of India
• Portal:Law of India
  • Portal:Supreme Court of India
• Bibliography of India
• Indian authors
• Sanskrit authors
• Bengali authors
• Books on India from Biodiversity Heritage Library