Basham, A. L., ed.A Cultural History of India. Clarendon, Reprint, Oxford University Press, 1975. 1998. Comprehensive survey from prehistoric times to the Nehru era.
Crossette, Barbara.India: Facing the Twenty-First Century. Indiana University Press, 1993. Description of contemporary India from the perspective of the author, as well as other Western and Indian authors.
Davidson, Robyn.Desert Places. Viking, 1996. A journalist's account of her stay among the Rabari, a group of sheep and camel-herding nomads of northern India.
Fuchs, Stephen.The Aboriginal Tribes of India. Macmillan, Reprint, South Asia, 1973. 1992. A review of part of the immense cultural diversity of India.
Johnson, Gordon.Cultural Atlas of India. Facts on File, 1996. Excellent description of the rich cultural history of India. Includes sections on India itself, as well as chapters on Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka.
Kaul, H. K., ed.Travellers' India: An Anthology. Oxford University Press, 1997. More than 170 accounts of India written from earliest times to modern times.
Lapierre, Dominique.The City of Joy. Doubleday, Warner, 1985. 1992. Sharp portrayal of Calcutta's cruelties.
Paz, Octavio.Trans. Eliot Weinberger.In Light of India. Harcourt Brace, 1997. Three essays by Mexico's ambassador to India present interesting comparisons between Mexico and India.
Tarlo, Emma.Clothing Matters: Dress and Identity in India. University of Chicago Press, 1996. Portrays social and cultural change in contemporary India through descriptions of how people dress.
Keay, John.India. Grove Atlantic, 2001. A comprehensive overview of the history and cultures of the subcontinent.
Khilnani, Sunil.The Idea of India. Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 1998. Discusses Pakistan's departure from India and the meaning of India.
Mansingh, Surjit.Historical Dictionary of India. Scarecrow, 1996, 2001. Reference work provides an overview of Indian history and society.
Metcalf, Barbara Daly, and Thomas R. Metcalf.A Concise History of India. Cambridge University Press, 2001. A challenging new history of modern India.
Nehru, Jawaharlal. Ed. Sarvapalli Gopal.Jawaharlal Nehru: An Anthology. Oxford University Press, 1980. Compendium of Nehru's writings on culture, nature, independence, and more.
Rushdie, Salman, and Elizabeth West, eds.Mirrorwork: 50 Years of Indian Writing, 1947-1997. Henry Holt, 1997. Introduction to poetry, fiction, and nonfiction by English-language writers affiliated with India.
Winternitz, Maurice.A History of Indian Literature. 2nd ed. 2 vols. South Asia, 1981-1988. Classic, comprehensive study of secular and religious prose and poetry; first published 1927.
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