Re:Pakistan and India have agreed 'full and immediate ceasef...
by sieve on Saturday May 10, 2025 @04:08PM
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Plenty of reading material is available.
* The History and Culture of the Indian People - is a 11 volume encyclopedia edited by R.C. Majumdar. Slightly dated because of when it was published, but it is a scholarly work that will give you plenty of references to other material if you want to dig deep.
* Sri Aurobindo & Swami Vivekananda - Their collected works are available online and you can pick and choose what you want to read because their output was vast.
* Books by K S Lal - historian who wrote a lot of books on the Islamic/medieval period
* Books by Meenakshi Jain - historian
* Books by śatāvadhānī R Ganesh - his Kṣāttra - The tradition of Valor in India is quite good
* Books by Sandeep Balakrishna on the Delhi Sultanate period, Tipu Sultan etc
* Books by Pavan K. Varma
* The Ramakrishna Mission publishes many books on Hinduism. "The Essentials of Hinduism" by Swami Bhaskarananda is a concise introduction to the religion.
There are hundreds of such books. Will add another comment if I can think of them.
The best option is to read good translations of the upanishads, itihasas and puranas. Everything else is based on them. (Easier said than done, though)
* The History and Culture of the Indian People - is a 11 volume encyclopedia edited by R.C. Majumdar. Slightly dated because of when it was published, but it is a scholarly work that will give you plenty of references to other material if you want to dig deep.
* Sri Aurobindo & Swami Vivekananda - Their collected works are available online and you can pick and choose what you want to read because their output was vast.
* Books by K S Lal - historian who wrote a lot of books on the Islamic/medieval period
* Books by Meenakshi Jain - historian
* Books by śatāvadhānī R Ganesh - his Kṣāttra - The tradition of Valor in India is quite good
* Books by Sandeep Balakrishna on the Delhi Sultanate period, Tipu Sultan etc
* Books by Pavan K. Varma
* The Ramakrishna Mission publishes many books on Hinduism. "The Essentials of Hinduism" by Swami Bhaskarananda is a concise introduction to the religion.
There are hundreds of such books. Will add another comment if I can think of them.
The best option is to read good translations of the upanishads, itihasas and puranas. Everything else is based on them. (Easier said than done, though)